We were lucky to catch up with Obert Cantave recently and have shared our conversation below.
Obert, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
The most meaningful project I worked on was $outhanomical. It was a collab album created back in 2019 with B.T.O.D that promoted the new era south. The album was removed off of all platforms due to personal reasons with my home life but I re uploaded it this year in 2024 on all platforms. We created timeless classic for the next generations of the south to appreciate!
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I am a southern trap artist coming out of both Texas and Florida. I started off doing dance promo for artists in the early SoundCloud scene from 2014-2017 then decided to drop my first mixtape in 2019 known as “Tampa Punk”. An artist who goes by “oaklnd” encouraged me to drop a tape instead of just sitting on my talent. Around this timeframe I ended up moving to Austin Texas and recorded my first official album known as “$outhanomical”, in which the released brought upon a bunch of opportunities in the collaboration space with fellow artists. I am very well proud of this project and hope one day it gets appreciated for its hard work and dedication. I recently rebranded my whole persona to prepare for the promotion of my next album under our 1013 Team called “Let Broken Ships Sail” releasing in the October/November time frame!
Are there any books, videos or other content that you feel have meaningfully impacted your thinking?
I watch alot of videos on today’s beauty standards due to my curiosity in understanding my own self worth. A channel I got into watching was Shimon Davis; a man who explains self love/ self worth thoroughly enough to me, a young man that never grew up being taught to love himself.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
So I had to unlearn women being treated as objects and gaining status only for the result of gaining approval from them. I think in general I had to unlearn being a man child. I’m still learning to only lift people and never tear another man down for validation due to the fact that’s how I grew up. I’m still learning what makes me a beautiful young man. I’m still learning that the way I treated women in my past was a reflection of what I saw growing up. So I think I’m just unlearning those toxic ideologies I was taught by men in my life. People tend to call me softer nowadays or question my sexuality, but really it’s just me learning to become emotionally available to everything.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6iMGppjpMiMpxSAIJayMdn?si=5LqzPum3Sg6g4SLKvltwfQ
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1013thecrew?igsh=djRiZGVzNzVxcGM1
- Youtube: BIG30KSHA
- Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/LRsqXYY6E4iYrL9SA
