Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Derrek Jensen. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Derrek , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you tell us about a time that your work has been misunderstood? Why do you think it happened and did any interesting insights emerge from the experience?

I don’t think I’ve ever been fully understood. I don’t fit the bill for your typical artist in the rap industry. I’m humble, hardworking, kind, and I really enjoy helping others live their dreams. 9/10 if you look at my history, you’ll see I always brought people with me and put my friends on. I paid people to live their best life and chase their dreams!! Because of this, people tend to use me and then slander me if they don’t get what they want. I never let that stop me from helping people though.

When I was a young artist with no connections, I’d show other kids how to write music. When I got connections, I got artists on tour with me. When I became the connection, I uncanceled celebrities, built up local scenes and created a national tour agency. When I figured out the financial sector, that we’ve been lied to, I tried to help people learn about money to take control of their future. When I saw the world was falling apart, I protested, marched against police, signed petitions and lobbied as an activist for equality for all people, especially minority who’s voice isn’t being respected. When my family was suffering, I went to work and made sure I could suffer and work so they didn’t have to. I created a business designed specifically to help artists do what I did by myself.

Yet if you ask someone who doesn’t know me, they could say I’m a scammer, or abusive, or a racist, or a bad person because people lie about people. And then the people who hear the lies tend to project who they are, and what they would do, onto celebrities.

For example, I tried to help people learn how to get rich, even spent 250k to do it (250k I’d love to have right now….) only to get lied about and called a scammer.

Marched for equality and civil rights from 2014-2020 on a regular basis, mostly work with minorities, helping black artists in hip hop culture, yet called a racist.

Help the homeless, give kids with parents in jail toys on Christmas, take care of my family, build a small business without getting into any trouble whatsoever for 10 years straight and.. called abusive.

I go into a hotel wearing a nice outfit with my tour crew and I’m profiled, treated horribly and thrown in jail as if i’m a hoodlum, despite the fact I’m on a business trip. Happened often. I’ve spent 6 figures I don’t have, to prove I’m who I say I am (an artist and businessman) and not a criminal.

I have been in recovery for a few years but all the lies people tell about me have pushed me back to drinking a few times. I’m grateful now that I’ve been in my sober lifestyle for over year, but being as kindhearted and hardworking as I am, it’s discouraging me to be my natural, loving and helpful self when everything I do good is shamed. The world is full of broken people breaking people and I’ve done everything in my power to NOT become the people who cast stones.

But the truth is, only God can judge me. And that’s why I’m not worried about anything anyone says. In fact, if anything… I feel bad for them because they’re locking themselves in hell. I’ll be okay in the end.

Derrek , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I could go on forever about this, detailing all the stuff I do. I’ll try to keep this brief but include as much detail as I can.

At heart, I’m an artist. A creator. A visionary.

Though I’m very talented creatively, I was also blessed with intelligence. I tested in the top 2% of all American children as a kid. Unfortunately my family didn’t have money to support my talents, so I got washed into the street life as a kid. I learned pretty quickly I could make more money selling weed than I could working a 9-5, so I started hustling weed, working a 9-5 and making music.

I didn’t know where to play, so I got with some local legends throwing shows. Eventually I learned how to do it and helped locals like me get a platform. Eventually, being local had a roof. So I went regional and began tour booking with the skills I learned, which quickly took my brand national.

I went from being just an artist with a hustle, to having to quit my 9-5 to support my weed / music grind. Soon enough I had to quit selling weed and focus on just touring because I was too busy to do both.

At this point I was now an artist, booking agent, record label owner, artist manager, and tour manager. I did whatever I had to do to get my music heard.

Before the pandemic, I had hit 12 tours in 12 months that I booked, managed and co-headlined myself. After the pandemic struck, it destroyed my business. I shifted into finance while I created music and let my former business partner take over operations of my company/brand, RhymeSick.

While studying finance, I created a cryptocurrency and have also been building a top-secret project that I believe may be the biggest game-changer since amazon, google, and facebook. But I’ll keep that to myself for now.

I tried to get back into the rap game post-pandemic as far as business goes, but I made a bad deal with a shady artist who literally robbed me and slandered me – adding to the misunderstanding I was just talking about – and got me so upset I decided to quit the music industry and set up boundaries to protect my mental health.

Boundary number 1 is that I do NOT work with any artist or representative if their ego is bigger than their heart.

Since then, I’m now the plug for all things artists need. I’m able to secure press publications like The Source, Billboard Hip Hop, Thisis50, etc. I can get music videos placed on BET, MTV, WorldStar etc. I can build IG, Tik Tok, YouTube, FB followers/views/subs etc through marketing, organic ads, and playlisting. I can even get artists on major tours.

My favorite thing to do though, outside of making my own music, is to be a consultant. My passion is music and art, and I love to directly help artists develop their sound and brand. Everybody wishes they had someone growing up, and I want to the be the person I needed as an artist growing up.

Helping artists, models, entertainers get their foot in the game is a top priority for me. If anyone needs consultations, they’re $500 for a startup call and from there I can list all my services and what their cost is. Reach me by email at [email protected] for more info!

In addition to the business side of things, I have to admit I’m most proud of my body of work as an artist. My spiritual journey has been lifelong but it offically began in 2011, which lead me to pursue music full-time. In 2014, when I was 25, I was blessed with a vision containing all my album names, spelling out what would be my new artist name (STATIK G, with nickname Statik Gesus). Each album contained a sort of prophecy confirmation that told me I was on the right path

The albums were as follows:

Slightly Sober (trapped in hell, in a cycle of addiction and delusion until Gene Therapy)
The Bad Guy (to be considered bad guy by peers, despite being a good person, and must adopt the role)
All Out of Normal (signed to horrorcore label despite being hip hop artist)
Terrorist (a rebel to be labeled a villain by public/police, despite being a hero behind closed doors)
Intelligent Design (had my baby, got famous, spiritual awakening)
Kill or Be Killed (temptation entered my crew turned on me in order to take my place, and they lost the war)
Gene Therapy (I rose from the ashes, healed, was risen and made a warrior for God)

A lady read my fortune in 2020 before Gene Therapy, during the KOBK era. It all came true! She called me a prophet and said I’d become a father figure, preaching love and light. I know I sound crazy especially because I thought SHE was crazy when I heard it. I was a kid from the trailer parks in the middle of nowhere, who moved to the city to hustle and grind and make music. After killing myself as a teenager, I denounced my faith and my belief in God. So to be called anything like a prophet when I’m barely recognized as for all my work as an activist, business owner, and an artist, was entertaining to me.

I thought that was all the vision I’d get, but I as given my next album title on a mountain in 2022. It was to be a 7 song album called Empathy. Sent on a pilgrimage in spiritual solitude, my living path during the following year would give me empathy for all people, from all walks of life. I believe I was dipped back in the fire to show me things I didn’t want to accept about people (and myself), in order to heal them or my perspective, and to bring all people together.

My mission is to save the world and bring us all together despite any differences or challenges. Using my art and my heart to heal us all, my goal is to breathe truth and love into the world so I can help kill the fear, manipulation and misunderstanding used to control the masses. The lady who read my future told me I’d be a light in the darkness who would save the souls of many. But if I’m being honest, the drive to make the world a better place started before we met, when I had my baby in the Intelligent Design arc. I vowed to make the world a better place so she wouldn’t have to go through hell like I did.

My current focus is to protect my energy from demons like ego, greed and alcohol while I raise my vibration into a state of unconditional love for all people. I will provide my family with lasting generational wealth before I go, which will be accomplished by making quality, meaningful music that can change lives. I’ll try to save as many lost souls on this earth as possible. I’ll do this by translating the scripture and its true meaning to masses as I grow. Support will follow by removing all confusions and manipulations about God and our lost abilities as humans that have lead us astray. I’ll do this without shoving religion down people’s throats, because I’m not religious. I won’t leave out any people, because I love all people, and we are all God’s children.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I think people are very insecure about themselves and judgmental. I believe it comes from a feeling of lack. If they were to change their perspective to an abundance mindset, they would be less judgmental of others and more supportive. They’d feel less insecure about themselves so they’d feel more confident in supporting artists in their journey. And even confident enough to possibly become an artist, an influencer, a business owner, a client or consultant, etc. There are so many ways to be involved in the world of creators – but the first key is to kill the ego and love others.

What artists need most, is space to create, and support to grow. If you see something or someone you like, my advice, support them how you can! Not a single artist at any level got anywhere by themselves. We depend on love, advice, and assistance from others along the way. And in my experience, I found the most value wasn’t from money people threw at me, but from the love they showed every day.

Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I love the idea. Especially anything to do with block chain. I think it scares shady government and business owners who depend on lies and manipulation to control our thoughts & finance. I’m actively working on a way to make the technology more mainstream, approachable, understandable, and more viable in an economy, without disrupting it negatively. I’ve been masterminding ideas for this technology since their debut and I’m excited to see what we can all come up with!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/statikg
• Instagram: @statikgshit
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/statikg
• Twitter: @statikgesus
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/statikg

Image Credits
IMAGE CREDITS: LOUIE COHEN OF EPIDEMIC MEDIA