About Me
BRANDON LOVELL JOHNSON, AKA. OVERCOME, AKA THE MIC TEC, WAS BORN AND RAISED IN MADERA CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE WAS A STUDENT AT MADERA HIGH. DURING HIGH SCHOOL BRANDON STARTED DB FOR MADERA HIGH, BUT STARTED GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH AND FELL IN TO A DRUG ADDICTION. BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND HARD PRAYER FROM HIS PARENTS BRANDON MADE IT THROUGH AND RECIVED HIS DIPLOMA. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL BRANDON WENT OFF TO LANGSTON UNIVERSITY IN OAKLAHOMA, BUT SOON CAME HOME AFTER DROPNG OUT BECUASE OF DEPRESSION AND DRUGS.WHEN BRANDON CAME BACK HE STARTED TO DAPPLE IN MORE DEEPER DRUGS WHICH STARTED TO HAVE A REAL STRONG AFFECT ON HIS MIND. THE DEPRESSION WASNT GETTING ANY BETTER, MATTER FACT IT GOT WORSE TO THE POINT THAT BRANDON FELT EMPTY AND TRAPPED . A TIME LATER BRANDON WANTED TO TRY GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AND PLAYING BALL ONCE MORE, SO HE ENROLLED IN REEDLY COLLEGE. THINGS WAS STARTING TO LOOK UP FOR BRANDON, HE WAS MOVING UP ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM AND MIGHT HAVE RECIVED A SCHOLARSHIP,BUT IF YOU DONT CHANGE WITH IN ,NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO YOU WILL FACE THE SAME TEMPTATION AND NOT OVERCOME. DRUGS, THIS TIME,CYRISTAL METH FOUGHT BRANDON AND HE DROPED OUT OF SCHOOL ONCE MORE AND MOVED TO LAS VEGAS WITH SOME FAMILY. OUT THERE IT WAS THE SAME.BRANDON STOPPED THE METH ,BUT STARTED SNORTING COCIANE. HE TRYED EVERYTHING TO FILL THIS EMPTY VOID IN HIS LIFE: SEX, DRUGS, HANGING OUT AND DRINKING ANY AND EVRYTHING,SPORTS, THE STREET LIFE, TRYING TO FIT IN WITH GANSTERS, DRUG PUSHERS,CLUBS, FIGHTING, BUT NEVER JESUS. LIKE A LOT OF US BRANDON WAS RAISED IN CHURCH, BUT NEVER HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THE SON JESUS CHRIST UNTILL AFTER HAVING A NERVOUS BRAKDOWN HE SCREAMED OUT TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HELP. THAT WAS IN 2000. AFTER HE WAS SAVED BY JESUS, BRANDON STARTED GOING TO CHURCH AND SPEND HOURS AND HOURS READING THE HOLY BIBLE. HIS VOID WAS EMPT NO LONGER, BUT STILL STRUGGLED WITH SOMETHINGS, BUT GOD WAS SLOWLY CHANGING HIM.IN 2001 BRANDON MOVED BACK TO CALI WITH HIS MOMS IN FRESNO. TWO YEARS LATER AT 22 YEARS OLD HE WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, BUT THIS TIME GRADUATED FROM THE C.N.A PROGRAM AND RECIVED A CERTIFICATE, ITS WASENT A DEGREE, BUT IT WAS SOMTHING. AT FRESNO CITY HE MET HIS LOVELY WIFE LOIS. AFTER THAT BRANDON STARTED WRITNG POEMS AND SAYING THEM ON SUNDAYS AT HIS CHURCH, THEM HE REALIZED THAT HIS WORDS AND SPEECH WAS VERY POWERFUL, AND TOUCHING. SO BRANDON STARTED TO WRITE RAPS AND IN 2003,RECORDED HIS FIRST EP WITH HS FATHER IN LAW WHO HAD A STUDIO CALLED OVERCOMING PRINCIPALITIES. ACCORDING TO 1 JOHN 5:4 BRANDON CAME UP[ WITH THE NAME OVERCOME BECAUSE THREW FAITH IN CHRIST HE HAS OVERCOME THIS WORLD. NOW OVERCOME HAS 4 VERY LOVING KIDS, AND GOD IS USING HIM TO RAP AND MINISTER ALL OVER FRESNO, CA AND IF GOD WILLING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
