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VERSE SIMMONDS POLE MAG: You’re a very multifaceted artist as an artist, songwriter, and producer. Tell me about your growth throughout the different stages of your career and how you’ve balanced it all. VERSE: I’ve always been an artist. That’s something I’ve always been passionate about. It’s been my dream since I was a little boy. I realized I had a gift to write music, as well as produce music so I started to branch out and work on getting better at my craft. That’s how I ended up getting into the music industry as a writer and a producer before anybody even knew me as an artist. POLE MAG: How was it working on the “Watch the Throne” project, which arguably now is a Hip Hop classic? VERSE: It was great. It was definitely my milestone moment to be able to be on an album with two of the bigges