Today we’d like to introduce you to D2iCE.
D2iCE, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I come from a Homestead, Fl. Where I come from, at one point in time, we could go outside and play, fight and drop the issue but it got to the point where no one can take a loss, so they started shooting. I also use to watch my mom struggle to raise me and my sisters and get abused by one of her boyfriends which traumatized me and sent me into a deep depressing phase. Growing up my talents music and dancing is how I expressed myself because I felt like there was no one I can vent to. I felt like I was the outsider of the family. I felt like I really didn’t have anybody. I started running away, trying to find someone to talk to. I started off dancing every song I heard, every party I went to I was always dancing. Not only did I feel better afterward I felt more relaxed tired but relaxed. At the time I was in the church choir, but at the time it wasn’t until I was 15 that I started dancing in the church. When I got in high school, I dropped out of ROTC to join the dance academy because I knew it was close to that time where I was about to graduate, and they don’t allow you to dance in the church when you graduate high school. So while I was in high school, my brother and I came up with a group called CUE Clean Up Ent. the originality of the word came from a lingo we used in our group where we would ask a girl to clean her up meaning let a brother smash, which around the same time I wrote my first song Jus Dat Gudda.
My rap name came from wearing dice earrings, and I wouldn’t tell this girl my name, so she told me that she was going to start calling me Dice. When it came close to time for me to graduate high school ive gotten my child’s mother pregnant and I already grew up without my father, so I had the mindset that I will do whatever I had to do to help my mom so knowing that I have a child on the way I’m gone get it as hard as I possibly can. I didn’t find my first job until 2015, and I was 21, and my child was born in 2014. ive moved to Gainesville Florida where I was working three jobs, and me and my child’s mother broke up because she thought I was cheating on her. While in Gainesville i wanted to start djing because I felt like they were missing a lot as far as music, dancing, etc. But I didn’t follow through with it I kept my mind focused on working and doing what I had to do as far as going to school and working. Before getting kicked out, I was finally writing more music and recording my music which is how I came up with D2iCE. The way I wrote Jus Dat Gudda previously didn’t sound as right as it did when I first wrote it, so I had to switch, y name in order to make it work. After moving back to Miami. I went back to dancing, I was still writing music, and I started going to school for massage therapy. A month or 2 later my cousin and my grandfather 6 hrs behind each other which only made my depression worse. After a while, I started dancing less and writing music more because as I was dancing with the dance team, I was dancing with people started questioning my sexuality because the team was full of homosexuals and females and I was the only straight guy on the dance team. Although I felt like an outsider to the family, I still had the mindset that I had to be the man of the house and a father to my child so being that everyone started loving my music I stopped dancing and focused more on working and writing music. I didn’t really have my father in my life, so I didn’t want my daughter to encounter the same situation, so I go hard in the paint to show my daughter that im going to always be there for her
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
My art is music. The type of music that I make is to teach and speak up for people. I also write music based off of what ive experienced, know or see around me. Hopefully, people take a lot from my music like stop the violence especially killing women and children, being afraid to speak up for themselves.
Any advice for aspiring or new artists?
The advice that I have for other artist is be consistent. There is a reason you’re doing this. If you’re going to rap, be great at it, become the goat at it and don’t let anybody or anything get in your way. The lesson that I wished I learned earlier is doing my research. I jumped head first thinking that I got this person this person and got scammed a few times so be careful with you put in your circle.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
To see my work you can find me on:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thereald2ice
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealD2ice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/D2icebthaname/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereald2ice/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQkjFrJAx7GCq1DdWqTzqQ?view_as=subscriber
You can support my work by following me and subscribing to my channel.
Contact Info:
- Email: thereald2ice@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thereald2ice/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/D2icebthaname/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealD2ice
- Other: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQkjFrJAx7GCq1DdWqTzqQ?view_as=subscriber
Image Credit:
Streetwarnin
Dontavious Barnes
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