You’ve been lucky enough to do music with a side order of
modeling. Let’s start with the modeling and go from there.
You started modeling when you were 16, how did that come
about?
I was going to school in the lower east side of Manhattan and I
was unexpectedly scouted on the street by Adidas and I got cast
for a shoot.
What other campaigns have you done?
Tommy Hilfiger’s new jeans campaign, a Versace campaign in
Mexico City, a short film for Miu Miu etc.
And music?
I actually was doing music first. Music was my main thing. I
never had any aspirations of becoming a model but music was
always there for me because I have two older brothers and they
had a music group and I wanted to be a part of that and they
told me in order to be a part of that I had to be able to freestyle
the things that were going around us for two minutes before
they would even consider me for the group. It took me a while
to be able to do something like that and when I was ready they
had stopped doing music and I just kept going.
Do you have one particular style or a mix of styles?
I would say it’s a mix of styles because when I first started want-
ing to do rap music and had no thoughts of doing anything else
but when I went to Europe, I went to Sweden and the producer
who is one of my close friends, makes pop music, so we did a
pop song and it came out pretty good actually and we’re going
to shoot a video for that mid 2019. He’s going to come to New
York and we shot a lot in Sweden too. He has a band who does
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