Zero Interview
Sovereign Savant:
So you just got back from iceland how was it?
Zero:Trip of a lifetime man, hard to put into words!
S:Will that trip have any influence on upcoming music projects and can you tell us about your music inspiration up to this date?
Z:Yeah. I feel like that trip gave me emotional and spiritual Awakenings that makes sense. I guess you start to look at the Grandeur picture once you get out an area you've been in your entire life. But it's definitely going to inspire some upcoming music. As of inspirations up-to-date, J Cole is still on the Forefront, Mos Def, Talib kwali, common are a few to mention. Tech N9ne is also someone I've always looked up to.
S:Thats pretty dope because travel really does open up the mindset. So whats been the highlight show of your career so far?
Z:Anytime we open up for tech n9ne it's a highlight of the career you know LOL but if I have to say one it would be playing the 1035 stage at Boise Music Festival 2019 for thousands of people. I believe I was a year and a few months sober and it was one of the greatest feelings of my entire life.
S:Ayyyy congrats on the sobriety! BMF 19 so that has be about 3 years sober correct? What would you say about sobriety and to people struggling with it?
Z:Correction, I believe I was a month for to sober at that time, cuz I am only two and a half years sober. But nonetheless oh, I would say to keep fighting, the only time you truly fail is when you give up completely, it only takes one time for it to work so keep fighting.
S:Whats in store for the next few years musically speaking?
Z:The main thing I want to focus on is releasing more music videos and touring a lot more.
S:Anywhere specific youd like to tour to?
Z:Anywhere international, though I do want to do a full national tour.
S:A national tour would be pretty awesome! Where can we keep up with the latest updates about your music?
Z:Youtube.com/zero12345
Instagram.com/tharealzero
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6yOZ3wpy3OfOApPBlKGhXy?si=qxyBEObtRGm_ktETN0L-Uw&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
S:How is it to be so recognized in the community?
Z:It a feeling I hope everyone gets to experience, I have truly worked hard to become the person I am through all of my Strife, downfalls, self inflicted experiences, ect. But at the end of the day, I believe my mom would have wanted better for me as I have always wanted better for her. So this good feeling that I have inside and to be recognized by my peers, family and friends, I'm doing my very best to transfer that and pass that knowledge to those who feel like outcasts and unseen, you know?
S:That's heartwarming to hear. Especially in this time. I have to ask how did you come up with your artist name?
Z:I used to run track and field back in high school and was very poor so I ended up trying out for the team in baseball cleats. They made fun of me and I challenged the fastest one there. I beat the fastest one with baseball cleats on and got their respect. A friend had came up and said "man imma start calling you zero!" I thought he was trying to be an asshole and call me zero, like nothing lol. But he said, "no, imma call you zero, because you are better then number one!"
Also another reason that fortified it, when I was in foster care I created a story that I still work on to this day with 65,000 words and just one more chapter to go. But I named the main character Zero to depict an animated version of my life, and it is stuck ever since then.
S:Mind blown man! A story? Im psyched to see it when it comes out! Is their anything youd like to speak on that we havent yet?
Z:I guess if there's anything else I would like to say it would be this, it's so easy to say to not give up when things get tough because that's where our mind goes to, but if there was ever even an ounce of strength you believed in, in yourself, let that shit explode and motivate yourself to keep fighting through addiction, to keep fighting through despair to keep fighting through heartbreak because at the end of the day, our happiness is ours, no one else's. We are the authors of our story... Not the character.
So you just got back from iceland how was it?
Zero:Trip of a lifetime man, hard to put into words!
S:Will that trip have any influence on upcoming music projects and can you tell us about your music inspiration up to this date?
Z:Yeah. I feel like that trip gave me emotional and spiritual Awakenings that makes sense. I guess you start to look at the Grandeur picture once you get out an area you've been in your entire life. But it's definitely going to inspire some upcoming music. As of inspirations up-to-date, J Cole is still on the Forefront, Mos Def, Talib kwali, common are a few to mention. Tech N9ne is also someone I've always looked up to.
S:Thats pretty dope because travel really does open up the mindset. So whats been the highlight show of your career so far?
Z:Anytime we open up for tech n9ne it's a highlight of the career you know LOL but if I have to say one it would be playing the 1035 stage at Boise Music Festival 2019 for thousands of people. I believe I was a year and a few months sober and it was one of the greatest feelings of my entire life.
S:Ayyyy congrats on the sobriety! BMF 19 so that has be about 3 years sober correct? What would you say about sobriety and to people struggling with it?
Z:Correction, I believe I was a month for to sober at that time, cuz I am only two and a half years sober. But nonetheless oh, I would say to keep fighting, the only time you truly fail is when you give up completely, it only takes one time for it to work so keep fighting.
S:Whats in store for the next few years musically speaking?
Z:The main thing I want to focus on is releasing more music videos and touring a lot more.
S:Anywhere specific youd like to tour to?
Z:Anywhere international, though I do want to do a full national tour.
S:A national tour would be pretty awesome! Where can we keep up with the latest updates about your music?
Z:Youtube.com/zero12345
Instagram.com/tharealzero
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6yOZ3wpy3OfOApPBlKGhXy?si=qxyBEObtRGm_ktETN0L-Uw&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
S:How is it to be so recognized in the community?
Z:It a feeling I hope everyone gets to experience, I have truly worked hard to become the person I am through all of my Strife, downfalls, self inflicted experiences, ect. But at the end of the day, I believe my mom would have wanted better for me as I have always wanted better for her. So this good feeling that I have inside and to be recognized by my peers, family and friends, I'm doing my very best to transfer that and pass that knowledge to those who feel like outcasts and unseen, you know?
S:That's heartwarming to hear. Especially in this time. I have to ask how did you come up with your artist name?
Z:I used to run track and field back in high school and was very poor so I ended up trying out for the team in baseball cleats. They made fun of me and I challenged the fastest one there. I beat the fastest one with baseball cleats on and got their respect. A friend had came up and said "man imma start calling you zero!" I thought he was trying to be an asshole and call me zero, like nothing lol. But he said, "no, imma call you zero, because you are better then number one!"
Also another reason that fortified it, when I was in foster care I created a story that I still work on to this day with 65,000 words and just one more chapter to go. But I named the main character Zero to depict an animated version of my life, and it is stuck ever since then.
S:Mind blown man! A story? Im psyched to see it when it comes out! Is their anything youd like to speak on that we havent yet?
Z:I guess if there's anything else I would like to say it would be this, it's so easy to say to not give up when things get tough because that's where our mind goes to, but if there was ever even an ounce of strength you believed in, in yourself, let that shit explode and motivate yourself to keep fighting through addiction, to keep fighting through despair to keep fighting through heartbreak because at the end of the day, our happiness is ours, no one else's. We are the authors of our story... Not the character.