Wazeer Talks About Modesty in Music: Blurred Lines Tell Lies...

Wazeer, 20

Wazeer is a 20 year old independent hip hop artist, producer, and cinematographer. He is a Houston native, but has a sound and message in his music that stretches far beyond this region. He began his rap career in the winter of 2011 but has been a musician since 2004 at the age of 11 as a trumpet player and continued until he graduated high school. He now attends HCC (Houston Community College) majoring in Audio Engineering in order to fine tune his craft and build his various businesses. His goal is to redirect hip hop back to its origin of serving the people and true expression and to take the genre to a place the world has never seen. He is a man of the people and a man of god.

During Wazeer's interview I asked him the following questions, with the music of today being absent of anything positive how do you keep your music modest aka conscious and positive? What do you believe the difference is between your mindset and the mindset of other rappers? What is the inspiration or purpose behind your music? What tips can you give others that are or would like to be in the same field as you?

"When I'm coming up with song concepts I'm driven by human experience and raw emotion. All I want to do is create a clear image in the listeners mind that shows my perspective of the world around me; exposing the injustice, lies, deceit, and give clarity on who they are and what they are capable of. For instance, in my song entitled "G Like Me" I emphasize the fact that I am a God, capable of creating the reality I please, but it is intended for the listener to sing along in the self empowering chant. I do believe that there are artist who share my mindset but there are also a multitude of rappers, if we can even call them that, that are only interested in gaining capitol at the expense of their audience and the art form as a whole. Songs are now taking on the form of jingles promoting materialism, criminal behavior, dehumanization and degrading of our women, and alcoholism and drug use. We must take back our genre from our enemy, whose current control makes profit off of it, and return Hip Hop/Rap to its natural form of expression and feed the souls of the people. This is my mission and I won't quit until we are successful.

My advice to anyone aspiring to be a rapper or obtain any occupation in the Hip Hop industry is to decide what you want to do, find out how to do it, hone in on your craft and never take a day off. Some forward progress has to be a daily goal. Always speak the truth in your lyrics and remove fear completely and your success is inevitable."

Thank you Wazeer for taking time out of your day to share your experiences with us and allowing me to feature you on my blog! I pray Allah (God) continues to bless you in your endeavors!