I am the goddess…

…of every world I create.

My mentor, screenwriter Gerard Brown III (Juice, Happily Ever After) taught me that, and when I got deeper into music, I understood it differently. I wasn't just making songs, I was building a city. Nocturne City, dark, cinematic, alive at night; a place that could only come from me.

I come from Bushwick, Brooklyn (dark siiiidddeeeee), one of three children raised by three Deaf parents. A CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), I grew up in a house where communication was all in the hands, the body, the eyes, the energy, and the space between words. Silence wasn’t quiet in our home, it loud and full of life. It actually was the first language I ever learned to read.

I believe we come in threes, it's embedded in our DNA. The Holy Trinity. The three pyramids. Time, space, and matter. Heart, mind, and soul. The foundational structure of every story ever told — three acts. As one who doesn’t believe in coincidences, that’s quite telling, it’s divine. Three is the crux of everything that lasts so when I began to learn myself as an artist...as a person, I didn't find one version of me. There were...you guessed it, three. The Whimsical One who offers grace, the Unapologetic One who speaks boldly, and the Spiritual One who leads. These are the three most prominent dimensions of who I am. The subversions? We can talk about those another day.

I came to music through grief. In 2019, I lost my step pops. One of those three Deaf parents who shaped everything I understand about story, feeling, and what it means to truly be heard. For years, I fell into the same hole of isolation around the time he exchanged his feet for wings, then one day, sound broke through and pulled me back to life. I felt like I owed it something back. Then in January, I almost stopped. I lost my cousin/sister. I didn't want to keep going. But her last words before she grew her halo was, “You are the only thing that is in your way. If you don't do what you need to do in 2026, I'm not going to encourage you anymore.” Those words echoe in the grief. The silence. The doubt. When I’m Still. So I refuel and keep on trucking. For her. For me. For my purpose.

I have to confront myself. Activate myself. Defeat myself. That's the only way to get to the next level. I AM Bowser.

I can't fully shake my theater and film background and I've stopped trying to. That art is me. I just use those tools now to sharpen something I newly discovered I could do. My bars are cinematic because I am cinematic and my world has texture because I was trained to build worlds. My mission has always been the same whether I'm writing scripts or rapping: I want to create works that can be universally enjoyed. That offer an escape even just for a moment from everything holding us down. There is enough to be stressed about. I want to give people somewhere to go and something they can return to, revisit, and feel something new every single time.

Nocturne City is that place. Welcome.