Mama, We Made It!

“Sometimes you need to lose who you think you are so you can rediscover who you are.” Welcome to Kankakee, IL, at one time ranked the worst city in the U.S. Growing up moving around a lot, with little dreams of a big city, TiRon found himself getting lost in creativity as a way to escape the world around him. He was always drawn to music - not to any genre, but to how it made him feel. His natural curiosity for people and experiencing new things was his way out of his small town, and his mind… Welcome to South Side Chicago, where gangs and violent crimes were at an all time high. But as kids, we don’t always have a concept of danger. For Omari, this was simply his neighborhood, like any where else. Inspired by his loving mother, she introduced him to music at an early age, from Tina Marie to Masta P. But where Omari really got lost was in his drawings and passion for art. Both kids were receptive to the world around them, yet so different how they ingested it. It wasn’t unti