NALIJ BONE
7 Questions
What made you realize that music was your path?
I been around music my whole life. My mother used to be in the living room playing music like Johnny Taylor, Bobby Womack, Otis Redding, Bobby Blue Bland and so on when I was younger and I used to be jamming right along with her. When I was like seven or eight, I was living in Bradenton, Florida and my brother was apart of this group called Mpeeze
which later branched off into the 41 Boyz. I looked up to him because he was that father figure in my life, so I wanted to be just like him. I started writing rhymes and recording them in my room. At 19, I was enlisted in the United States Army fresh out of basic training just arriving to Ft. Lee, VA when I met this brother in my AIT class from Norfolk, VA who had the same aspirations of becoming a big time hip-hop artist as me.
LAKE CITY, FLORIDA
NALIJ MILLER aka NALIJ BONE
Some kind of way we both ended up being stationed in Ft. Stewart, GA. I felt like that was a sign one from the most high. We used to skip work and be in my barracks room writing songs all day until we got caught. We found studios to record our songs but two of the studios we went to didn't work out. At that point we had given up on our music.
Then one day, I was back home in Lake City, Florida on a four day weekend at my moms crib and ran into a relative that had a studio and was living in Hinesville, GA which is literally outside of Ft. Stewart. Me and my mans from VA linked up with my relative and started booking studio sessions instantly. It was there I knew music was my path. I know it's kind of long but I had to tell it that way ya feel me!