“I started making music in 2017 as a way to express myself. As a teenager with a lot of mental health issues, music became a form of therapy for me. I used my SoundCloud like a diary, and a way to transmute my suffering into something productive. My music began to grow in 2019, and I realized how real of a possibility there was of becoming a full time musician, but being in university, and also a small town in Canada, meant there was very little opportunity for me. So I dropped out, and bought a one way train ticket to Toronto in a Hail Mary attempt to follow my dream. I lived out of a suitcase in Airbnbs with rats, bugs, broken sewage pipes, and no air conditioning for half a year. Somehow I feel like the universe rewarded me for my dedication because while I had no where to set up my equipment to record at all, my plays grew exponentially over the next year to almost 100M. It felt like it happened too fast though, and I had very little musical knowledge. Listening to artists like Kanye, Kid Cudi, Tyler The Creator, Travis Scott, etc, I realized how large the disparity was in terms of quality between them and I. Millions of plays a month, every label you can think of sending me emails and calls, and I was still downloading beats off YouTube… I took a long hiatus to learn how to produce to try and bridge the massive gap. In 2022 I feel like I can finally call myself a musician, I am ready for the spotlight, and I know it’s coming.”

Roderick Porter