patientlywaiting Cadence Nashville, TN
BORN IN Memphis TOURED WITH Three 6 Mafia, Uncle Cracker and Kenny Chesney MUSICAL LINEAGE Musician Father Played in both Rock and R&B Bands CONTACT www.cadenceonline.com WEARING HATS “I kinda hate that we as artists have to pick a genre and promote ourselves that way. I don’t think I’m a rapper all the time. Sometimes I’m a poet, an activist or a comedian. Bottom line is when I go in the booth, I’m Cadence. I think I’m well rounded. I grew up listening to Hip Hop so that is my strongest influence. But I can get to the country fans, too. I hit college campuses and just talk to the kids, too, through college radio. I feel like the kids are looking for something.” FATEFUL DAY “There was a decision I made to prepare me to go all the way and quit my day job to rap. It was the day I wasn’t afraid to fail. Failure doesn’t scare me. But not doing what God wants me to do terrifies me; being someone I’m not scares me.” IS HIP-HOP DEAD? “I understand where people are coming from when they say it’s dead, but I also feel there is a lot of amazing stuff out there. I think they assume what they hear on the radio is what’s going on in hip hop. That’s not it. That’s what’s going on on the radio. There is amazing people that just don’t get heard.” NEXT MOVE “Majors have been knocking, but I like being independent since what I do ain’t commercial. But the labels talk to me and tell me how to dress and that they gonna hook me up with Timbaland and this and that. But no one has come to me with a deal that I feel is fair money wise or freedom wise.” COMIN’ FROM WHERE I’M FROM “Hip-hop is two things. It’s music and from the streets. It’s from a marginalized people. It has a strong scene in Nashville, but they can’t get the national attention they want and deserve. When you hear an artist coming from Nashville, hiphop just don’t come to mind.” COLOR BLIND “To be real, sometimes it’s hard for me to get people’s respect. People think if I was to become successful, it would be because I’m white, which makes me marketable. But people show me love everywhere. I’ve never been somewhere I couldn’t go because I was white. To my generation, race is almost a non-issue.” - Maurice G. Garland (Photo: Pinky Gonzales) 50
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