BILYEN: In 2017, I was homeless at the time crashing at a friend’s place. I was doing an odd job posting posters for some marketing agency and the driver who picked us up was a producer. At the time I knew nothing about music, how to count a beat let alone think I could rap or sing. On our last day of the work term I asked him to listen to one of his beats. I was shook cause I didn’t know anything about music but I immediately recognized that he didn’t learn that over night. When I went back to my friend’s place that night I kept thinking to myself, “I need to hang around people like this more.” So I asked him if I could chill with him and see how he makes music, emptying the rest of my bank account on a bottle of whiskey as “hand mail” (Chinese tradition to bring a small gift when visiting someone’s home). We drank, he ended up showing me some stuff and recorded me, worked some engineering magic. I was blown away how he made me sound like a Lil rapper! I was like, “yo what I just need practice and it’ll sound better next time!”. Eventually I bought my own interface, dropped out of school and put my OSAP into a $1600 microphone. We worked together on a few songs and I released “Promises” which got featured on “Made In Toronto” on FLOW 93.5 at the time. I didn’t love my sound as I was just learning how to rap and sing, so I wanted to really dial in my sound.  6 years of mixing and mastering later here I am releasing music with an entire new me!