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

Pseudo, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How do you feel about asking friends and family to support your business? What’s appropriate, what’s not? Where do you draw the line?

This is a touchy subject for most artists in my field. But to be honest, on your come up the people that will support you the most don’t know you from paint on the wall.

It’s the strangers that will help you build your business and keep it a float. In today’s climate people look at friends supporting your business in a negative light. We need to get out of that habit.

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 was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. I moved to the U.S when I was 11 and then to CT when I was 15. I pursued sports most of my life but after graduating college in 2014 I then went into music full time.

The music I create is relatable to the real life grind. I think anyone with a desire to do anything “out of the norm” will relate to my music. I talk about the struggle on trying to get into the music industry while being in financial hardship and juggling a family living in Los Angeles.

My proud moments come from seeing the team (Nocturnal & John X Smith) push through all the tough times that land in our path. Learning how to do the things people hire other people to do for them such as editing, mixing mastering, producing, but it always come back down to the “How bad do you want it” question.

I truly believe you need to have a certain mindset in order to live a life like this, cause if you don’t, it can chew you up and spit you right out!

Another proud moment is seeing the progression from when we first started to where we are now. If you were to tell me 8 years ago I would have HipHop legend Jadakiss on one of my songs I would’ve laughed in your face. Now today I can say I have HipHop legend Jadakiss on one of my songs.

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

The goal is to create a career in the music industry as an artist first. Music is my public diary that a lot of people enjoy and use it to get through whatever hard times they’re going through at the moment.

I don’t want to have any kind of career, but a successful one. I want to show my children and other kids who aspire to be something different than what society tells you to be that you can be anything you want to be. It won’t be easy I PROMISE but you gotta push through and keep your eye on the prize.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being a creative for me is the completion of a song or video.

Creating a song from scratch meaning, making the right beat, finding the melody, the topic, then getting the vocals recorded. Then, going and getting it mixed and mastered it’s all a process and takes a lot of time if you’re serious about your craft. So when it’s done and you get to introduce it to the world, that’s rewarding for me because you never know how that song can impact a consumer.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/mg.pseudoblack?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PseuBlack?mibextid=LQQJ4d
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/pseublack
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@Pseu

Image Credits
Nocturnal – mg.nocturnal on IG John X Smith – mg_johnxsmith on IG