"I began to rap and perform at a young age to entertain myself and escape
reality. My childhood best friend helped me form my first rap group called
Thunder and Lightning at age 9. We mostly just argued about who was
thunder and who was lightning but, we did record a few cassettes and give
them to our parents with our pictures on them.
I also expelled a lot of energy through gymnastics and had hopes of the
Olympics or at least a college scholarship but the pressure and injuries stopped my progression. Despite incredibly loving parents who I would die for, I always had a bit of an "alien" mentality as I was one of two people I knew until age 18 that was adopted. To this day I knows very little about my biological family. This has always had a very deep effect on who I am and how I deal with life. However, I feel like it was part of the plan and feel
blessed to be a Maize."
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