Certain things just didn’t fall my way, the cards just didn’t fall my way. Not even where I should be, but where I deserve to be. As corny as that sounds, I am nowhere near where I deserve to be.
So when I got here (to NYC) I believed in myself. But for me personally, I feel like AYM is the first body of work that I was like, “Wow I am amazing at what I do.” Can’t Wait showed the potential and was almost there, and I don’t want to sh*t on that, but it was almost there. Some people might think that AYM is better. Some people might think that Can’t Wait was better.
That was something that I held on to, even when times got rough making AYM. A parental figure or someone like that would probably be like, “Well, that is the dumbest sh*t I’ve ever heard” * laughs * but when you really one thousand percent believe in yourself and your abilities… It wasn’t actually up until Angry Young Man (AYM) that I really started to believe in myself.īefore Angry Young Man, I was believing in my potential. It was a leap that I knew I needed to make because this has never been a what if. I was like, “What am I going to do?” I decided that I’ve got to get the f*ck out of here. It was one of those fork in the road moments. But small markets like Conneticut were behind. This was 2010 but I was up on the blog and the whole Internet sh*t way early. We were about to move in together and I kind of realized that once that went south, “Why the f*ck am I in Connecticut?” At the time, locally, no one was giving me a shot. It was my first serious girlfriend, and at that point I was about to be 21 and it was getting pseudo-real. I had just gotten out of a really bad break up. What was your mindset when you finally took the leap to chase your dream? Was the experience of the city what you expected it to be, and how was the adjustment?Ĭuey: My mind frame going into it… It was just one of those fork in the road moments. RESPECT.: You moved to New York City at 21. Then I asked him about the journey of chasing his dream and moving out to the big city. I won’t say too much more about that part of our convo because he addresses it in a very poetic fashion on “Time,” which you can listen to here. The next day Cuey was set to drop his new single “Time,” which addresses discrepencies between the two that occurred during the process of making his last album Angry Young Man. I started off the interview by ironically asking him questions about his current situation with long-time producer CJ Luzi. So, we decided to split this interview up into three parts. The conversation was a long one (about an hour), but very insightful. I had the chance to talk with Cuey about his past, present and future music, as well as the journey that lead him to where he is at now. I remember listening to his music when I was graduating high school a few years back and I really related to his ability to portray struggle, triumph and the ambition for more perfectly over tracks that compliment his melodic tone and powerful flow. Cuey, the name he and his fans call him, has been making great music that has proved to last the test of time.
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OnCue is a rapper, singer, and song-writer out of Connecticut who has captured the hearts of fans with his honesty, vulnerability, his ability to be himself in an industry full of people trying to somebody else, and most of all, his music.
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