Exodus Swift
With over ten albums to his name, Exodus Swift is still not planning on slowing down. So why is that? Is it for the money? Is it for the fame? Is it for the status? According to Exodus Swift, it's neither. "I started off as a secular musician who was signed to a secular label; I'm not mentioning which label. But I was working on my album which would have been my debut and I end up getting caught up and almost killed. Now for me at that time I was already dealing with issues of basically sub consciously wanting to die. I had been molested as a child, homeless, both physically & sexually abused by my predator.
That burden of the painful and heartbreaking experience I went through before I even turned ten years old, it left a void. It turned me into a child who welcomed death, I fought, drank, smoked, cigarettes, and weed. I carried guns and knives and became a part of the blood gang in my neighborhood. As a teenager I wiled out of control and was kicked out of school after school. My parents didn't know what to do with me. I cannot say nor blame my parents for anything that happened to me as a child. Because honestly I feel I have the best parents in the world and I would not downgrade my mother or father. They tried to control the situation as much as they knew how to. I was in and out child hospitals
for several suicide attempts. I was in juvi, I broke into homes, robbed cars and got money any way that I could. I was not searching for peace nor for any type of acceptance from any one. I also did not do the things I did because of my gang affiliation. I did the things that I did because I honestly felt that I was planting a seed of death and I eventually would reap it. I didn't know what I know now.
I didn't ask why God spared my life repeatedly rather it was by my own doing or others trying to kill me. I just couldn't figure it out. This carried into my adulthood.
The suicide attempts and the lack of trust for all human existence. The only avenue of temporary release I had and could control was my writing.
EXODUS SWIFT WHY?
14 TAKE OVER / MAY, 2014