We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Cam Ezra . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Cam below.

Cam , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

First off thank you guys for doing this, its awesome and umm.. I think an overwhelming dosage of trial and failure with a willingness to make “bad” creations. A big part of being an artist is your palette and knowing what you like and what you don’t like. Oftentimes the best projects and moments of development as a creative will be when you venture out and make something that doesn’t feel like you.  Not every project you make is meant to be released and heard. Part of it is refining this pecking order until you feel like you’re in your own territory creatively and the dish is ready to be tasted.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that, can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

Yeah ! so my name is cam and to be blunt I take words, throw them over sounds and make noise with it. If this illustrious process goes well enough I sometimes release it and I’ve been doing that since I was 14. In my young years I reached this point where I truly felt like creation was the only thing that was mine, no one could tell me what it was or what it wasn’t, no one could destroy it and absolutely no one could stop me from making more of it. I quickly became obsessed with how often my interest for music was met with the deterrence from others. The sheer admittance that this is what I wanted be seemed to really bother people which brought me to one concrete conclusion,

This music thing must be the best drug money can’t buy.

It’s never stagnant, it’s ever changing and it’s representative of our footprint in life. Art paces the way we move, it changes the scope we zoom and it forces us to move a little further away from our own perspectives. I don’t see myself doing anything besides trying to make stuff, I’m obsessed with trying to create things uniquely immersive to each person who listens or watches and hope to be cemented in this realm one day because of it.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

There is something incredibly spiritual about making a song. At times it feels as though you’re not the one at the helm while making it, but instead the medium for conveying the message. I think having the ability to make something that can represent different things to different people at any point in time is incredibly powerful. How the exact same sounds and words can be interpreted hundreds of different ways will never cease to fascinate me. The way music ages, changes and its ability to shape shift and transcend time is ethereal.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Ultimately society, polices society.. & Look, if a unique experience that does not exist in the world is built, people will come. I think casual listeners are gravitating back towards having something tangible and physical they can take with them that feels unique and special to them again.. Those grass roots listeners that give artists the ability to make a living always were there. I think the spotlight and attention shifted to more temporary projects and short form content. I have always felt like people will pay for things and will venture to things if they cannot get it anywhere else. It’s supply and demand and I think in large part, the supply became so quickly forced out to the masses to meet marketing metrics and capitalize on demographic information the artistry took a back seat. As creatives we control the supply and the quality control of this industry so the fact that maybe things are harder on us is our own demise currently.

 I just think for years the music industry became fast food and streaming services became monopolies far too quickly to find balance and harmony. We have stepped so far over the line as far as what promotion is for our product is now that it has became a war for who can beg the loudest and the hardest for plays and attention. Infusing your music into your “content” as a content creator needs revised currently. At some point is your goal selling your face, selling your content or showing your artistry? Often times artist will complain about how its no longer about the art yet are feeding the same problem that plagues them. Will your audience grow based on the uniqueness and quality of what you’re making or will it grow largely dependent on utilizing the newest trends and temporary eyes.

Artists need to simply make better, more inspirational,unique more captivating things and I think the audiences will rotate and allocate effort, energy and money accordingly. As an artist we are not going to be able to change the way society moves but we can control what and how we feed it.

We saw Isaac Zale was on your last album, what was it like working with him?

Working with Isaac was incredible not only because he’s talented and well versed in the industry but because he prioritized the product over ego. At the time I reached out to him, I had very few connections in the industry. I had been rejected from various studios, producers and other artists because I had a lack of following on social media. I sent him art of romance and in 48 hours he had a verse tracked to it and it was ready to go. He helped work on some of the back end stuff as far as mastering went for the album and I don’t think the album exists without him, at the time the project was supposed to be an EP and once Isaac hopped on everything shifted more towards a full album approach. I look forward to working with him again not only in the audio world, but in some different coliseums that I’m working on as well.

Cam, anything you would like to say before you go?

I would like to first off say than you to canvas rebel and the talented people who are building a really cool independent creative channel here. I’d like to thank Kaleb Justic from Frigga Five who is getting ready to take the rock world by storm AND to the inner circle of people I’m fortunate enough to be surrounded by now. I always wondered what it would feel like to be “in the industry” and regardless of what comes as far as my career as a creative, i’m currently surrounded by people who believe in my career path and what I’m doing as much as I believe in theirs and I‘m incredibly fortunate for it.

Ragz Imagination 2025

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TCoBI5ALtZU9Qs01t1ZeR?si=hhUzI-o1SZ-2FBF1o3pFgw
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camezra_/
• Other: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNi7QRUK7U2A6KszoiZMHA https://www.instagram.com/ragzimagination/

Image Credits
Jorden Shevel Jasmine Matheka