About this episode
My name is Byron Johnson, but I go by the name of Stoops. Since I wrote this, I’mgoing to speak in the first person. When I’m big enough to have somebody actually write my bio, we’ll bring in the third person. Anyway, I’m from Detroit, Michigan, but my passion brought me to Los Angeles. That passion is music, and it’s been my passion since I was 12 years old. I always knew it would drive my life, but I had no idea it would land me in Hollywood. And there’s nothing like being an independent artist in that city. I went from working on film sets, to random music sessions with Peedi Crack, to delivering Puffy’s dry cleaning every day, trying to figure out how to let him know what he had in front of him. Either way, it always comes back to the music. I had the most success I’ve ever had in 2016, and I expect 2017 to be bigger. The video for my song, “Freedom”, hit over a quarter million views in just over a quarter of the year, and the song itself hit over 70,000 streams. I’m charting Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dreamhustlewin-podcast/donations