Cashus C.R.E.A.M Interview

Cashus C.R.E.A.M. Biography By Kenji Jasper Most people's lives are built solely around the choices they make. But there are a select few who are destined for greatness. At 25, Cashus C.R.E.A.M. is one of them. Cashus was only 14 years old when his cousin, a neighborhood "big tymer", put him up against a group of older teens practicing their rhymes for a school talent show. He didn’t know anything about delivery or bars or song structure. He just knew how to tell a story. The words that went from pen to paper blew that whole room away. That was when he knew for certain that he would be married to the mic. "I spit my little rap and my verse was better than all of theirs," he says, remembering it like it was yesterday. "I put all of my feelings and emotions into it. It showed me the effect my words could have on the people around me." Growing up on Hartford, Connecticut's north end, Cashus was always a creative writer, channeling the sights and sounds of his blocks into poems and short stories that got him recognition from everyone from his crew to his professors during his three years on a football scholarship at Southern Connecticut State University. But even through the glory of the gridiron and the privilege of working at a Fortune 100 company, it was only within the music that he truly felt at home. That home was a house he built the hard way, coming to Queens with nothing but a book of rhymes and the promise of a couch to sleep on. While the streets of Hartford were nothing nice, the musical world within the five boroughs was filled with tricksters, amateurs and more competition than he’d ever faced before. That still wasn’t enough to scare off the kid who had always been young and smaller, the one who always had to get over humps that his peers did not. He kept swinging until he hit the right producers, the right management and most importantly, the right sound. Heavily-inspired by Run DMC, Nas and early LL Cool J, GameTime, Cashus C.R.E.A.M's debut mixtape, is a showcase of ...