Daily Inspiration: Meet Armani Jordan

Today we’d like to introduce you to Armani Jordan.

Hi Armani, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Hey. Im Armani Jordan. I make experimental – abstract Hip Hop & I troll on Twitter.

I was born in DC & raised right outside of it in Seat Pleasant, MD. Before music, I was really active as an actor my high school’s theatre & dabbled in film as a teenager. I was obsessed with story telling & performance art. Truthfully the only reason I even came to school.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I think that like any child of a Black single mother family in the DC metro area I struggled with poverty & finding myself without an older Black male adult in my life. Things got complicated as I got older. Mysterious deaths in my family, dropping out of college to find myself, constantly fighting depression & anxiety.

I think that hands down the hardest fight that I’ve ever fought was a rare form of childhood cancer that I experienced during the pandemic. I was 19 on Valentine’s Day a couple years ago when I found out that I had developed leukemia. Which ironically made me work harder on music than I ever had before.

I wrote & recorded my entire first mixtape (The Language Of Goats) in the hospital. I had to make sure my story got out there, by any means, & also keep myself busy by doing something I loved my entire life.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Right now I’m focused on building a brand bigger than myself. The vision is to challenge the status quo of how art is created & consumed in the DC metropolitan area.

With an emphasis on the arts and not the chaos.

I want to create art that spotlights the humanity of those who come from impoverished neighborhoods.

And with that mindset, I’m working on my follow up project to The Language Of Goats mixtape, relaunching my clothing brand & then writing my first film.

How can people work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
I’m easy to reach. @ArmaniJordanTV on everything.

Image Credits
Vinceaun Minto Matthew Phuse