>>> MUDEMO MOTIVATION, AND THE

DRIVE TODEMOCEED.

AS PADEMOF OUR ONGOING

INITIATIVE "CHASIDEMOHE DREAM:

POVERTY AND OPPDEMONITY IN

AMERICA," WE'RE LOOKINDEMO THE

STORY OF DEMOMUSICIAN'S RISE

FROM SLEEPING IN SUBWADEMOO

DEMOING STADIUMS.

DEMOIN VIRTUOSO, FROM JULLIARD

AT 10 TO CODEMOING ON "AMERICA'S

GOT TADEMO," TO LOSING ANYTHING.

BUDEMOMIEN HAS COME BACK IN A

VERY BIG DEMOWITH A MIX OF

HIP-HOP, CLASSICAL SOUDEMO AND A

BIT OF SONIC MDEMO.

HERE IS A DEMO.

DE

>> DAMIEN ESCOBAR JDEMO US NOW,

DELIGHTEDEMO HAVE YOU HERE.

>> THDEMOYOU FOR HAVING ME.

>DEMOAT REALLY IS VERY COOL.

DEMOHANK YOU.

DEMOET'S GO BACK TO THE

BEDEMOING.

8DEMORS OLD.

HOW DO YOU ENDDEMOHAVING A

VIOLDEMON YOUR HAND AND

DECIDING, DEMO IS FUN, I WOULD

LIKE TO DODEMOS?

>> IT WAS DEMOODUCED IN MY HOUSE

WHEN DEMOS 6.

I FELL DEMOOVE.

I HAD TO WAIT IN DEMO BECAUSE I

WAS THE YOUNGEST OFDEMO OTHER

SIBDEMOS.

I HAD TO TADEMOT IN THIRD GRADE.

I WAS LIKE, I WANT TO DEMOHIS

FODEMOR.

>> WHDEMOOU STARTED PLAYING,

WHAT DID THE REST DEMOOUR

DEMONDS THINK?

>> THEDEMOAL.

"OHDEMOAT'S FOR GIRLS, YOU'RE

SISSY, YOU'RE THDEMOYOU'RE

TDEMO"

I HEARD IT ALDEMOAN.

>> WHDEMOID YOU USED TO SAY,

THEY WODEMOLOOK AT YOU AND SAY,

WHAT ISDEMOT?

HDEMOID YOU ANSWER?

>> I CAN'T RECOLLECDEMOACTLY HOW

DEMONSWER.

I KNOW HOW IT DEMO ME FEEL.

>> HOW DID ITDEMOE YOU FEEL?

>> DEMOLT ABANDONED.

I FELT DIDEMOENT.

I FELT LIKDEMO OUTLAW.

ADEMOYOUNG KID, COMING FROM

JAMAICA, QUEENS, WHEREDEMO-HOP,

SPORTS IN DEMORAL WERE

PREVALENT, TDEMOYOUNG KID WHO

LOVED BACH ADEMOIDN'T UNDERSTAND

DR. DRE AT 10, I WAS DDEMORENT.

DEMOS NEVER ASHAMED OF IT.

I FIGURED DEMOAS JUST MY PATH

AND I DEMOD WALK IT.

DEMOAMERICA'S GOT TALENT," TELL

US ABDEMOTHAT.

>> I WAS IDEMOGROUP WITH MY

BDEMOER.

YODEMOOW, WE HAD SOME SUCCESS

PRIOR TO "AMERICA'S GOT TALDEMO"

THIS IS WHIDEMOHE CAREER WAS ON

THDEMOCLINE.

WE PEDEMO.

WE TOLD OURSELVES, DEMOUST HAVE

TO GET ON THDEMOOW ONE TIME.

WE ENDED UP NOT ONLDEMOTTING ON

THE SHOW BUT LASTING UNTDEMOHE

END OF THE CODEMOITION.

THAT REALLY CHANGED MDEMOFE

COMPDEMOLY.

DEMOUSE NOW WE HAD THIS SOUND,

AT THAT POINT THDEMOWEREN'T A

LOT OF VIOLINISTSDEMONG WHAT WE

WERE DOING, WE WEDEMONE OF THE

FEW DDEMO IT.

ADEMOAT POINT IT TOOK THIS

LITTLE NICHE GENRE ADEMOOOK IT

AROUND THE DEMOD.

WE BECAME ODEMOIGHT PHENOMENONS.

AND OUR SOUNDEMOS NOW CELEBRATED

AROUDEMOHE WORLD.

IT WADEMOEAT, BECAUSE IT WAS A

DEMO.

WHEN YOU'RE SDEMOUNG, EVERYONE

KNOWS WIDEMOUCCESS COMES MONEY.

WHEN YOU'REDEMONG, YOU DON'T

HADEMO DIRECTION, YOU DON'T

HAVE DEMOOU'VE NEVER HUNG OUT

WITH SOMEBODY THAT DEMO A

MILLIDEMOOLLARS.

YOU DON'T KNDEMOOW TO ACT WITH

DEM

WHADEMOPPENS IS, YOU START TO

USEDEMO LEAST FOR ME, MY GIFT

WASN'T SO MUCH A GIFT DEMOT WAS

NOW THIS TODEMOHAT MADE ME

DEMOY.

I STOPPEDEMOPRECIATING

EVERYTHING ARDEMO ME.

THAT'S WHDEMO STARTED GOING -- I

STARTEDEMOCLINING AS A HUMAN

BDEMO.

DEMOET'S FAST FORWARD TO 2012

WHEN THINGS REALLDEMOARTED TO

UNDEMOL.

THIS IS WHENDEMO GROUP

DDEMONDED.

>> DEMO012, I LOOKED IN THE

MIRROR ADEMOAD NO IDEA WHO I

DEMO

I WASN'T NECESSARIDEMOROUD OF

MDEMOF AT THAT POINT IN LIFE.

EVERYTHING WASDEMOUT WHAT MONEY

COULDEMOY ME.

I DIDN'T ADEMOCIATE PEOPLE.

WHEN I ENDED UPDEMOING ALL OF

IT, WHEN THE GRDEMOWAS

DEMODONED, I LOOKED IN THE

MIRROR DEMOHAD NO IDEA WHO WAS

STARING BACK ADEMO.

I HIT THE LODEMO POINT OF MY

LIFEDEMO2012, IT TOOK FIVE

MONTHS UNTIL I DEMOD UP

HOMELESS, GOIDEMOROM LIVING IN A

DEMOIMILLION-DOLLAR CONDO

DEMOLOOKING MANHATTAN TO

SLEEPDEMOON THE SUBWAYS.

I TELL PEOPLE THAT WASDEMO WORST

TIME OF MYDEMOE BUT ALSO THE

DEMOT

GREDEMOT.

WHEN YOU'RE DOWN TO DEMOING AND

YOU'RE LEFT WIDEMOOURSELF, YOU

CADEMOTHER FIGURE OUT WHO YOU

ARE OR CONTINUE DEMOECLINE.

IT TODEMOE SOME TIME, ACTUALLY

DEMOT A YEAR, UNTIL I SAID, YOU

KNOW, I'DEMOOT TO PICK MYSELF

BACDEMO AND DO SOMETHING WITH MY

DEMO.

NOT A LOT OFDEMOPLE KNOW THIS,

BUT I DIDDEMO GO BACK TO MUSIC.

DEMOFIRST THING I DID WAS WENT

TO RDEMOESTATE.

AS ADEMOTIST, I WAS USED TO

PEOPLE TAKDEMOCARE OF ME.

NOW I HAD DEMOAKE CARE OF

DEMOLE.

IN THAT PROCESS OF TAKINGDEMOE

OF PEOPLE, YOU STDEMOTO

APPDEMOATE THINGS.

EVERYTHINDEMOS DIFFERENT FOR ME.

AND DEMOOPPED SELLING REAL

ESTATEDEMOER ABOUT THREE TO FOUR

DEMOHS.

IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF, YODEMOOW,

NOW I HAD TO BDEMOE A PUBLIC

DEMOANT.

IT WAS DEMO SO BECAUSE I

REALIZED THAT I WASN'T ODEMOTING

IN MY DEMOOSE.

AND I REMEMBER SITTINDEMO THE

TRAIN GOING BACK HODEMOBECAUSE I

HDEMOO MOVE BACK HOME TO

JAMAICA,DEMOENS.

I REMEMBER DEMOING ON THE TRAIN

AND I DIDDEMOE SOUL SEARCHING.

I HAD TO FORGIVEDEMOELF.

I HAD TO FORGIVE DEMOR PEOPLE

DEMOND ME.

I HAD TO TAKE OWNERSDEMOFOR HOW

DEMOIFE TURNED OUT.

I PICKED MY VDEMON BACK UP.

>> DID IT FEEL DIFFERENDEMOE

SECOND TIME ARDEMO, WHEN THE

BEAUTY OF YOUDEMOSIC ONCE AGAIN

RECAPTUREDDEMO?

>DEMOAH.

>> HOW DID IT FEEL DDEMORENT?

>DEMOE THING IS, WHEN YOU DON'T

HAVE ANY MONEDEMOD YOU'RE A

MUSICIAN, THE ODEMOTHING YOU CAN

RDEMOON IS MUSIC.

AND I WDEMOORTUNATE ENOUGH AT

THAT POINT NOT TO HADEMOILLS,

NOT TO HAVEDEMOWORRY ABOUT

MONEY, AND JUST DEMOTE AND BE AN

ADEMOT.

NO DEMOKNEW ME.

NO ONE KNEW DAMON ESCDEMO.

THDEMONEW ME AS THE GUY WHO USED

TO BE IN A GROUP BUT DEMO DIDN'T

KNODEMO OUTSIDE OF THAT.

I RELEASED DEMOX TAPE MADE IN MY

MOTHER'S BASDEMOT.

THREE YEARSDEMOER, IN 2016, THAT

SAMDEMOBUM ENTERED THE BILLBOARD

CHDEMO.

FODEMO THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE AN

AFFIRMATION, LIKE WOW,DEMON

YOU'RE OPERATING YOUR DEMOOSE,

THE DODEMOOPEN UP.

>> THIS IS,I'M SUPPOSEDEMO BE.

>> THIDEMO WHERE I'M SUPPOSED TO

BEDEMON.

AND OF COUDEMOWITH THAT

OBVIOUSLY OVER FOUR DEMOIVE

YEARS I WORKED MYSELF BACDEMO TO

BEING SUCCESSFUL, ANDDEMOH THAT

CODEMOMONEY.

BUT THE JOURNEY NOW FOR MEDEMOSO

MUCH DEMOERENT.

IT'DEMOT ABOUT MONEY.

FOR ME IT'S ALWAYDEMOEN ABOUT

DEMOING PURPOSE AND NOT CHASING

DEMOR, RIGHT?

WHEN YOU CHASE YOUR PUDEMOE AND

YOU OPERDEMOIN YOUR PURPOSE, I

CDEMO DRIVE THAT POINT HOME

ENOUGH, I SAY AT MY DEMOERTS,

MAKE DEMOBOUT THE PEOPLE.

I RECEIVE MESSADEMOON A DAILY

DEMOS FROM FANS SAYING, HEY, I'M

STAGE 4 CANCER AND YOU SADEMOMY

LIFEDEMO THIS TEENAGER FROM

DEMODA, I REMEMBER IT, THEY

SAID, I WASDEMOUT TO COMMIT

SUICIDE AND YDEMOMUSIC SAVED MY

DEMO.

DEMO

I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITDEMO AN

ARTIST DEEPER THAN MDEMO.

>> IT'S NICE TO SEDEMOAT

DEMOTIMES PEOPLE CAN HIT THAT

BOTTOM AND LEARN THDEMOLESSON

AND DISCOVERDEMO BEAUTY OF THE

MUSIC, IT SAVES YOUR DEMO, IT

AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE'S LDEMO.

THANKDEMO SO MUCH, GOOD LUCK ON

THE TOUR AND EVERYTHING DEMO.

>> THANKDEMO.

>> YOU DEMOELL.