Introduction

SurReal Edʒəpd (Egypd)-

A young kid in his 20s from New York, traveling from borough to borough trying to make a living without failing his family. Life has given me a challenging road throughout my school years, where physical obstacles did not hold me back, but I struggled academically. Like R.Kelly, who is one of my biggest musical inspirations, I faced challenges in reading and writing. I was not able to read and write well, but as time went by I was able to develop my skills and grow out of that slump. I am able to read, write, and do so much more. In the beginning, music was not apart of my daily life, like most males, sports was the way out. I live in a neighborhood that is typically classified as the "ghetto", “hood”, “the projects” and otherwise known as “Housing”. The way out was to make to the NBA, MLB, or the NFL unless you’re very smart and aspire to do something practical. In school, I made every team I tried out for except for the college basketball team, which was very disappointing. Basketball is something I like to do, but it is not what I'm best at, however, as far as track and field (Pole Vault) I consider myself a monster. I was very athletic and could run a great distance and this was when I started building my music skills. Freshman year of high-school, I was supposed to play basketball, but instead I joined the Track team to do something different. I did not know that I was good in it, until I did my first race and came in 2nd place and could have come in first if I knew where I was going. My desert is where I train, everyday running miles sometimes without water and the sun beaming down on me. I can run 20 miles with no problem, so physically I'm in shape. The same time while I was running track I was building blocks in my music career to build a platform. When I was first starting music I had a real hard time; I personally do not want to say this, but I like to say the truth, I sucked, I was tone deaf. Admitting that is the hardest thing for me because I have a huge pride, I do not like people putting me lower or beneath them. My best friend is the man I look up to because he shared his knowledge of music with me and he’s also the guy who taught me how to learn music by listening. When I met him he was a drummer and a percussion player so he knew music way more than and I did, which made me jealous during the time, but I was also inspired. He taught me how to make instrumentals through a computer since I did not have any instruments. Everyday I practiced, building my pyramid to one day have the best foundation for myself and to be honest this pyramid was not so pretty. Making instrumentals was not my foreplay, however, I met his cousin and he taught me how to engineer the instrumentals, mixing wise. So I built two talents which was mixing and being creative with the sounds (sound designs and new waves). Then his cousin introduced me to his friend, who was just starting to do music also. It was four of us with all different skills, but when we put them together we created a bomb together. Each of us had our own identity. Eventually, we broke up like every band, into two groups in which I stayed with my best friend. We all separated, because we needed to get better and the best way is to lose the weights and build yourself. I was working on building my ears mainly while the others had their own occupations. Further on, I went to college to study music at LaGuardia CC and I am currently about to graduate to transfer to Brooklyn College next and study music there to get a bachelor degree. While studying music at LaGuardia CC I learned different things including music theory, music history, piano, mixing etc. I was obtaining all the basics for music in every aspect. Now that my pyramid was becoming stable I needed to know what was out there. At this time, the band came back together for a bit, we made dope beats all together which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, we separated again, but this time I stayed doing music with my best friend cousin’s friend. We never hit that point to do music together up to now, on a one on one level. For now that’s all...goodnight. Any comments or questions... I have no problem of answering...There's more stories why I call myself Edʒəpd(Egypd).  
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