Today we’d like to introduce you to Marc the Prophet.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Honestly I got started with music in a pretty random, out of the blue kinda way. I was in my junior year of high school walking to anatomy class or maybe from. This is almost end of the school year so this is 2015. I was listening to Joey Badass’ most recent album “B4.Da.$$” and somehow a song I had never heard on there started playing. The album had been out for a while prior to that day I was listening so I’m not sure how I never heard that song before that moment. Anyways, the song was called “Curry Chicken” and it blew my mind. It was amazing. I had listen to Joey well before that but this song brought him to a whole other level for me. Production, flow, lyrics, delivery. It was all 100% perfect. I remember walking through the hallway and literally feeling my whole entire world shift thinking “I want to make something as good as this.” And I never looked back. Here I am now, hundreds of hours, songs, and performances later still happy to be working my way towards making something as good as that song.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Hell nah it hasn’t been smooth. One of the biggest struggles was learning to believe in myself and what I can do. Especially as someone who had absolutely 0 music experience before starting it. For someone trying to live any sort of specific life, that’s honestly like the bare minimum needed. Self belief. And unfortunately, it’s quite possibly the hardest thing to achieve 100% of the time. What helped me get through that and over it was recognizing that other people believe in me for a reason. There are strangers I don’t know who tell me to keep pushing. They don’t owe me that. They don’t have to tell me that. Yet they do regardless and it’s the same with my family and friends. So they must all obviously see something right? Whatever they see, I been learning to see it too cause if they can believe in me. I can believe in myself.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I make music. I rap and occasionally sing haha. I try to make what people would call “conscious” rap but I don’t really see it that way. To me conscious rap is like woke rap. I’m not trying to be woke. I’m trying to make people get up off their ass and go as far as their limitless potential will allow. (Hope you got that) So I guess I make energy rap. Yeah. Energy rap.
I guess I’m known as the dude with no limits and because I am seen that way, it truly helps me break limits. I mean, I have to have people continue to believe I have no limits cause then maybe they might believe they have none either. And so for me to keep that belief high, I have to keep reaching the next limit and breaking it over and over. It won’t stop. It can’t.
What sets me apart from others is probably my mentality and my goal. It’s one thing to make it in music. It’s another thing to have your music change the world. I want that. My mission is bigger than just music. It’s bigger than wanting to be the world’s greatest superhero. It’s about shattering the chains on every single human on the planet and giving my everything to try to bring mankind to the next level.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
Tampa is a nice lil vibe of a city. Good food and a lot of cool things to do but it’s getting pretty crowded and overpriced now so that’s pretty bad.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/MarcTheProphet
Image Credits
@aricreatesart
@itzwilberto
@nataliecharltonx
