LANCE MARKEITH

          Around 2021, I grew to despise recording music because I didn't feel I had a sound. I hated the time and energy spent recording music for the sake of people only listening to it once. I didn't have a direction and I was rapping to every style known to man but I wasn't fulfilled. I didn't feel like the music I recorded represented my love for Hip-Hop culture.

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"I fell back in love with music..."

 

          But I couldn't stop studying the culture, watching interviews and performing at open mics! I truly loved the craft and the community it could inspire. I started to perform as an actor and a "Spoken-Word" artist knitting my raps into "poems". In the middle of a writer's block, I found my voice rapping on beats by my brother John Vell. We both had a common purpose: take people to a completely new place. It wasn't fully fleshed out conversation, but we came to an understanding that if we're tired of doing it a particular way, what is the new way?​

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          I fell back in love with music once I asked that question.