Lettey: You've been on stage with so many talented artists, from Tech N9ne to Krizz Kalico, to T.I., and so many more in your career, what have you learned from these great mentors and how have you used that knowledge in your own music?
Oobergeek: When you're on stage, wither your stage is 2ft tall or like 4ft tall, it makes you seem like you have a command over the crowd. It’s like you tell them to say "Uhhh" and they actually repeat what you say. I really take that as real deep to me. You know, cause I feel like everyone is their own king or their own queen. They have the power to tell people, you know, what they want and tell people how much they love them, and then they will cheer for it.
Lettey: Has there been a landmark music moment in your life so far?
Oobergeek: Yes, Yes, Yes. I went to Florida and I met seven other human beings that I do connect with. The two years that I spent with them was like the greatest two years of my life. Simply because I was down in Florida on my own, apartment struggling, struggling to keep the lights on, with the water bills, with school, and just struggling. When I made music with them it really made me forget about all those things that were going on and I just woke up to a lot of things. A lot of things that mattered to me prior to going to Florida, it didn't matter anymore. Things just became better for me as a human being, that's basically what I was doing. I was me. I was a human being.
Lettey: As a song writer, tell me about your experience with taking words and lyrics from your mind and transferring them to paper. How do you deal with writers block?
Oobergeek: It varies. Writers block is basically forcing something that's not gonna come. If I have writers block I'm simply just not gonna write. I'm just gonna wait. I'm just gonna be patient with, you know, my talent and everything. If this verse is just four sentences long and I just stop writing cause I can't think of nothin', then it's just meant to be just four sentences long. You know, I'm not gonna force anything at all. When I got like 32 bar verses, like something must have clicked in my brain to write all that and I have a story.
Lettey: What would be an EPIC musical moment for you?
Oobergeek: The more I look up things and see beautiful things, it just adds to the imagination. So far, from what I know now, I would want to and love to play in Rome, or in a great city, and EPIC city, a historical city, with millions of people watching. Showcasing everything on the perfect stage and with the perfect lights. The perfect mics, the perfect musicians behind me. Ya, just creating that heaven for the crowd. Because, you know, cause that's the closest thing we gonna get to while we on earth.
Lettey: Do you come from a musical family background?
Oobergeek: Ya. Tech N9ne is my cousin. I also just found out a few of my cousins were into music and into, you know, engineering and sound and all that. It was beautiful when I found out that and it just made everything better. Cause I used to struggle with me being the only one who felt this way about music. But my family members love music.Both sides, my mother’s side and my father’s side.
Lettey: Do you find having big music names, like Tech N9ne, in the family has helped you in your career or hindered you at all?
Oobergeek: That's a good question. I really, I don't know. It didn't hurt. It’s not hurting at all. You can just walk up to someone and say "Hey Tech n9ne is my cousin, and I do music too." and then their like, oh really? Then they will be interested. It hasn't hurt. It hasn't hurt none.
Lettey: Who are your musical inspirations?
Oobergeek: I grew up in the 90's when Neo Soul was poppin like crazy, so I got that soul and of course during that time was Tech N9ne. I was around him a lot. Not as much as I am right now, but enough to see how he acts and everything. It's just crazy how I can reenact some of the things he did when he was trying to become a mogul or a hip hop star. We both have the crazy hair. I got the crazy hair now too. He used to have the crazy hair and it's just funny how history is repeating itself. So I'm really looking forward to the future.
Lettey: So you recently did a video with Krizz Kalico called "Gumbo", tell me about that experience.
Oobergeek: That was a great experience. It was really cold that day, but you just have to take your mind off everything and perform and do you. It was a great experience. We were at the West Bottoms here in Kansas City, MO and people came out with those old school cars. You know, it was just a great thing for the black community to come together and do something good. You know, cause you always hear about the black community always being divided and I think that unity was the highlight of everything that day.
Lettey: Do you have anything new coming out for the fans soon?
Oobergeek: I do have a new video coming out today called "No Touching" featuring Krizz Kalico and Futuristic. It is really dope. It was shot by Jakob Owens. He's a wonderful director. We shot it in San Francisco. Beautiful city, real beautiful city. I would like to do another video there. Ya it was real fun and real colorful. We got to catch Krizz while he was on that tour, a little bit was shot in Petaluma, CA and it was great. I can't wait for everybody to see it. You can download the song at cdbaby by clicking HERE or on Itunes by clicking HERE. I really just wanna show my imagination. I have dreams every night of showing people, you know, colors and sounds and all that. I just wanna show it to them. It's coming; I just gotta find the right lighting and the right way to showcase it. That's gonna take planning, prepping, and patience. Expect anything, for real. I got to sing one day, turn around and learn the guitar, turn around and not even rap no more, just make beats. Just expect anything. Cause that's really how free the imagination is. I don't wanna be in just one category. You just wanna be known as a great human being, all together.
Lettey: If you could tell the fans something about you that is personal, what would you say?
Oobergeek: I'm a fan of anything that is innovative, anything that is comparable in,I really don't have a specific like or not like, All I gotta say is Michael Jackson is the greatest of all time and Stevie Wonder is around there too.
Lettey: For people looking to do music and facing hurdles, what kind of advice can you give them?
Oobergeek: I really don't feel I'm worthy to give advice right now. Because I'm, you know, I'm still trying to be patient with myself. But if I was to give any words of encouragement, they would be patience and just have fun. If you have a goal, make sure that goal is a timely goal. Make sure it is innovative. You know, everyone wants money, everybody wants the spotlight, but I say just do it because you want to be a great person. You know what I'm saying? Just to live and just do it.
Oobergeek is definitely grooming himself to be just that, a great person. Oobergeek has a musical talent that surpasses any predetermined ideas I held before the interview and a humble demeanor that made speaking with him on a personal level comfortable and charming. I feel he's become what he's set out to be since the age of 9. When he was that boy in his room writing poems in rhyme form and anxious to share the colors of his dream world in written song. He's become the man who is innovative and who so eloquently gave us a glimpse of what it's like to live your dreams. The fans have a lot to look forward to with Oobergeek.
The premier of his new music video "No Touching" will begin a new page in his journey and story. We will all be present to take part in the writing of this tale with him now. So as the story progresses and we turn another page it becomes obvious to all those Oobergeek fans and everyone who's had the pleasure of working with him, there is truly No Touching Oobergeeks success!
