We recently connected with Keenan Hightower and have shared our conversation below.

Keenan, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. 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.

This answer is going to be a little long lol. It started with an instant love for music out the womb I am a fan of almost all genres I wont say what i don’t like lol. But really learning how to rap came from just listening to it a lot. Then i caught the bug and began freestyling and then started to actually write songs. I don’t think i could have sped up my learning process honestly since i started so early. As far as like structure of songs etc i could have started reading literature on it early. The most important skills that are the most essential is delivery and writing because they go hand in hand people hang on to how u say a bar just as much as what you say in the bar. The obstacles I ran into the most was who to really trust and try to work with people are distractions.

Keenan, 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?

For anyone that doesn’t know of me i’m a rapper and I go by Kee the Negus. I am an independent artist my music is everywhere on all platforms except soundcloud I have been at this for awhile and i have a unique style of adding retrospective/and “woke” bars wit a little bop in it. My team is Wav Syndicate we are a group of artist and different producers. We have merch songs and beats for sale.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

My whole story is a testimony to resilience. For a long time I chased this dream and goal. I have had so-called friends delete my music. I’ve had friends become enemies over this. I have been scammed out of shows. I watched ppl stab me in the back but im still here. I still wake up wanting to do the same thing I have wanted since a kid. Every stream every song every message I get from a fan telling me to keep going or that they love my music is the biggest payback trying to continue to take it higher each day

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

The biggest goal and mission of my music is giving people something they can relate to. We at Wav Syndicate pride ourselves on making blue collar music. Music for the reg folk who wanna go to work and then turn up in their down time. My music itself apart from the team might be a little deeper due to personal experience sometimes but the more I share my story the more therapeutic the grind is.    

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kee.the.negus/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KeetheNegus
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/keethenegus
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@keethenegus6650