We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Moe’najah Spencer a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Moe’najah, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

My name is Moe’najah Spencer, I go as MØE in the music world. Everyone who knows me knows I am a badass. I am confident and most of the time independent. I don’t care what other people think and I never let anyone bring me down. However it wasn’t always this way. My mother died when I was six years old. That day started a chain of events that would change the course of my life forever. My father was a drug addict and an alcoholic. He would have parties and all kinds of gangster people over at the house. I was concerned for my safety. I knew now that my mom was gone that he had taken free rein to do whatever he wanted. He kicked me out to the street. I survived alone on the street until I was 9 years old and could stay with my grandmother, but the next year she died and I was back on the street. I stayed battling on the street, fights, creeps, lack of food, and I met a girl who was also on the street named Rebecca Zarate. She went by Becky. Me and her became tight. We were the greatest and we vowed we would get off the streets and work on music together. At 15 we both found places to live, me with my aunt, Becky with her mom again. We worked on dance choreography together, and I released my first single Party Til The World Ends. Not knowing it would get a million streams in the first day. I was ecstatic and at 16 I went on to release an album with the help of more talent named Karuchi Swae & Melvin King who were underground producers but willing to help me. I released my album and it charted pretty well on iTunes however when I was at the height of my craft, I was getting calls left and right. I was sabotaged. A jealous underground producer named Liam Rondells deleted all my hard work from streaming platforms. I hadn’t had backups anymore because he deleted those too. It sent me into rage. I was so mad at him. I distanced myself with him and started hanging out more with other friends I met along the way like A T R I E L & Cameron Sanchez. They told me that they had their own label Lil Atriel Records and that it was independent. We all hing out a lot. I gave up on music but never stopped my love for it. I feared no one would remember who I was so I said that I didn’t want to try again unless I knew it was gonna be good. I could have done so much to try and destroy Liam but I knew that he was still involved with A T R I E L & Cameron Sanchez at the time. They worked with him on music. I couldn’t let my rage affect what they had going on. They were so mad at him for it but a deal was a deal. It was the year that my friend A T R I E L released Motionless Power that he trued convincing me to give music another try but I wasn’t ready yet. All I was thinking about is what I could’ve done better with my own music. I could have added more bass, more synth. I was reflecting even after Liam took it all away. I also knew that I was successful because of how I did it so that was what was most essential and important to me. I decided to get jobs as a substitute teacher, as a fitness trainer, even a manager at Planet Fitness. I had to say good riddance to music. I worked hard, I worked out, I got stronger and stronger until I didn’t even think about Liam Rondells. Until A T R I E L released Broken Mirrors in 2023. Liam Rondells was all over that piece of work and I said to Atriel how could you work with him again, and he said that he says how sorry he was and that he swears that he has changed and Cameron was working with him on his first EP, Summer’s Broken Hearts, and he said the same thing. So I asked what another friend of ours had to say, Aiden Miller. He said that the dude was weird and had something strange about him when Atriel and Cameron weren’t around but that he is just supporting his friends’ decision. By 2024 Liam Rondells had shown his true colors when he tried to sabotage Atriel & Cameron and he hurt another friend of mine, NǑVA. Atriel dropped him and so did Cameron like there was no tomorrow. Even though he had worked a little bit on their album Sentimientos, that would be the last project with Liam’s name on it for Lil Atriel Records which I said that I would join in late 2024 as I was working on some music that will be released in 2026. I did however go onto finally release an album titled MØE this year which has not been nearly as successful as my older stuff. It has a rap theme and I guess people did forget about me as expected but I am just doing it for me right now, and I’m fine with it. Currently I have a full time job as security and I am happy with my job and my life currently as I have my own apartment. So things are working out for me as of lately.

Moe’najah, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

As I said before my name is MØE. M – O – E to the Najah. I like to keep people on their feet, and I have an album under Lil Atriel Records. I have collaborated with my friends such as A T R I E L , Cameron Sanchez, Karuchi Swae , Aiden Miller & NǑVA. Earlier this year I worked on Batty Bitch with A T R I E L, I was featured on a song titled, don’t mess with my bestie. I also was on a collab with my late friend who passed away last year, Cameron Sanchez on a song titled Stephen on his album Lessons & earlier on his album A Lover’s Salad (The Sequel) which came after his Valentine’s album, A Lover’s Ballad on a song titled, my chewtoy. I also had a feature on my friend Aiden Miller’s first and last, “he says”, album titled Premiering on a song titled Rock Hard. I have been feature don a lot this year including my friend A T R I E L ‘ s latest EP titled Bad Guy (Coldblooded Edition) on a song titled Redemption Arc. What sets me a part from other is I will never let tou tear me down and I don’t give a you know, what you think.

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

I think society could make resources more available to artists and other creatives for them to be able to find their niche quicker.

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

Like I said I am confident in myself and I never let others opinions affect me. I will never give up in anything because my happiness is what drives me. I have the ability to believe in myself and love myself even in my lowest moments and like when I was on the street and struggling I never cried or had a pity party I just did what I had to in order to survive. That’s my power, that’s my story, that’s my resilience.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HuMnRIHpffFEA6JM20whF?si=PJRn40nkRyKEvVb4qz390g
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