Today we’d like to introduce you to Sticky The Menace.
So, before we jump into specific questions, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
I started writing short poems and also making music around the same age I started playing Basketball & drawing which was eight years old. I grew up listening to people from Aretha Franklin, Prince, Jimi Hendrix to Erykah Brady, Tupac, Pimp C, Andre 3000. I mean, I could go on but this would probably be the longest interview ever lol.
Has it been a smooth road?
One of the biggest struggles I had to overcome was me being comfortable with myself or atleast enough to be able to show my talent and really have a strong mind about how I felt about things I truly wanted/believed in vs what everyone else thought. I had always pursued basketball more than anything else in the beginning, but as I got older I became more aware of what my true purpose was. Coming out of the Eastside of Fort Worth your look at as a basic black stereotype, but I’m here to beat the odds. After my brother Donnie Evans died, I knew it was time to take my music to the next level. Somewhere that would be able to provide for my family & my closest loved ones, I’m the golden ticket for my people. Although I was almost more than sure that this was what I wanted to do everyone around me thought different. Which at an early age made me want to be sort of a people pleaser. I can assure that’s definitely not the case anymore though.
Can you give our readers some background on your music?
I am way more than just a rapper. I’m an ARTIST. I choose to use music as one of my main outlets of expressing my feelings and probably as close as it’s going to get with showing this world the insights of what MY world consists of. I normally don’t really care for genres because I push the boundaries of them all especially with for the people of my skin color, but if I had to choose I would say my sound is a more “TrapSoul” feel. Both telling my story of poverty, gang violence, etc. while also putting my soul into literally everything I write it brings it more to life to me. Whether it be a pop, R&B, neo-soul or Trap track of mine I make sure I’m felt. I make sure anyone else that can understand my music knows that they’re understood as well. With being an artist personally, I do way more than the average. I think art can be expressed through much more than just music, fashion, paintings & dances are also other forms of art that you will see me pursuing in the future.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
I would never tell anyone to try to go somewhere outside of there hometown starting out only because if you can’t make noise in your own city it’s going to be way more difficult to move other places and really adapt it’s no way out except through. I will also say I think there’s so much beef & dissing in the city that it takes away from the actual talent and its lowkey upsetting Fort Worth Needs more Youth Leaders for my generation regarding to music and I’m frontline fasho. I believe music should be used to uplift or to inform others in your situation how to maneuver out & it’s like nobody is doing that except for the few fighting to really make a difference cause it’s so much static & clout chasing.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Instagram.com/stickythemenace613
- Twitter: Twitter.com/menaceWRLD_
Image Credit:
Shot by : KDBoomin Photography; Shot by : MVPnysse
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