He released Angry Young Man in 2014, but spent three years working on it prior to the release. OnCue’s music has definitely shown the evolution of his life and growth. From that point forward, OnCue only went up. It was almost as if fate took its course for the two to meet. After one of OnCue’s graphic designs clients played his beginning records to producer, Just Blaze, it marked the beginning of his and Just Blaze’s collaborations. Upon finding a craft in graphic designs, he used that skill as a means to network and build relations with figures in the industry. Before moving to New York and becoming the artist he is today, his formal introduction into the industry wasn’t planned, it just happened. While OnCue had some reservations with bringing his raps to the light during his childhood, all his efforts would soon pay off. Obviously I work with Just, but when I found College Dropout, that’s when my soul really connected with something”. Ye cares about every last detail and I am the very same way…In fact, I was hype and freaking out that someone from Good Music was listening to my shit. While Eminem and Kanye gave him that drive to pursue his dreams, when asked, “If you had to choose someone to listen to your last piece of work, who would it be and why?”, OnCue responds, “ I would have to go with Kanye. I say that because before Kanye came along, it was all gangster, drug and street rap, and then when he came in the game, he kind of made it okay to be yourself.” And then when Kanye came out, I felt like oh, I think there is a place for me. But when Em came along, he kind of made me feel like okay, maybe I’m not insane, maybe I can do this. I wrote my first rap when I was 9 and always hid it from my parents and brother just because I thought that at this moment, there was so much back lash from Vanilla Ice in ‘97, ‘98, and around the time when Biggie and Pac passed, there was even more back lash on white rappers. I wrote my first raps before Eminem even came out. “ It’s so crazy because I started so young. The 27-year-old artist mentioned some hesitance before actually committing himself to become a rapper. While coming from a white background, OnCue did however face some hardships with trying to emerge himself in the industry.
I was a white kid, in the average normal suburbs and it was kind of a backwards, but I was blessed to have an older brother who had good taste in music.” But there was no one specific artist that inspired me to start writing rap records, I just fell love with the music and culture since I was a little kid. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was actually the very first CD I bought. It was just a lot of random stuff back then as a kid that made me fall in love with hip-hop, such as Method Man and Kris Kross. “ I’ve been listening to hip-hop since I was around 3 or 4. Originally from Newington, Connecticut, OnCue fell in love with hip-hop at a very young age, thanks to his older brother who introduced him to the genre. While the world may have its racial differences, hip-hop seems to be blind to race, color and creed, leaving its door open for all to come in, with endless possibilities for anything magical to be created.
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