Exposed Vocals just caught an interview with ‘Resin of 502’
A real musician brings people together and inspires emotion.
My mom and my dad died when I was a child. I remember I was too little to understand where mom and dad had gone. I desperately longed for my dad, so I got into poetry to be more like him to feel him alive in my heart. Most people weren’t even writing the totality of an alphabet and I was already understanding how to take apart the words and inter exchange them to form beauty in the rhyme of it all. To explain it as easily as I can, it still is the only time I feel like I’m really even alive. I feel the loss of them so deeply on me and honestly the pain of this wound has guided me throughout my whole life. I once was very lost and I had 7 overdoses and deaths, I’m a walking piece of art and I feel like the only reason I am alive is to showcase the power of being vulnerable, the grace that lays inside of us is within the he wounds we have in our soul. I have not spent a day in 18 years that I don’t make music and it’s this that truly is why I am here. If I couldn’t create I wouldn’t have the will to live: and in this being the only thing I ever had and the only thing that brings my parents back to me: I know I’m fulfilling my purpose for being. I truly believe I have to walk in the crippling pain to separate myself from the ego of pride and to live in what is truly real. This is to help show the world the most traumatized of people still can be radiant, that to lose may hurt the heart but turns the soul to gold. I now know God is with me everywhere and where I stand with him I also stand in the warmth of my parents presence. I am here because i am supposed to help the world see itself through my eyes, the ones flooded with tears in innocence, the eyes of that child that felt so broken all it could do is to love.
Exposed Vocals: Ok, so tell us this story Where did you grow up? What made you decide to become an artist?
Resin of 502:
I come from Louisville KY, originally born in Elizabethtown, KY My mom and my dad died when I was a child. I remember I was too little to understand where mom and dad had gone I desperately longed for my dad, so I got into poetry to be more like him to feel him alive in my heart Most people weren’t even writing the totality of an alphabet and I was already understanding how to take apart the words and inter exchange them to form beauty in the rhyme of it all To explain it as easily as I can, it still is the only ame i feel like I’m really even alive I feel the loss of them so deeply on me and honestly the pain of this wound has guided me throughout my whole life I once was very lost and I had 7 overdoses and deaths, I’m a walking piece of art. I feel like the only reason I am alive is to showcase the power of being vulnerable, the grace that lays inside of us is within the wounds we have in our soul. I have not spent a day in 18 years that don’t make music and it’s this that truly is why I am here. If I couldn’t create I wouldn’t have the will to live and in this being the only thing I ever had and the only thing that brings my parents back to me I know I’m fulfilling my purpose for being. I truly believe I have to walk in the crippling pain to separate myself from the ego of pride and to live in what is truly real This is to help show the world the most traumatized of people still can be radiant, that to lose may hurt the heart but turns the soul to gold Inow know God is with me everywhere and where I stand with him I also stand in the warmth of my parents presence. I am here because I am supposed to help the world see itself through my eyes, the ones flooded with tears in innocence, the eyes of that child that felt so broken all it could do is to love.
Exposed Vocals. Since everyone was a start-up once, can you give any smaller or local bands or artists looking to get gigs and airplay some tips?
Resin of 502:
Keep your head up, the distance is made when it is met with a passion unchanged from diversity You will go the distance if you polish every blemish from your product and yourself, yes your own charactor Not everyone doing what you’re doing is in it for the right ressons so make sure you show them and the world what absolute pure intention translates to! That is success, happiness, and longevity. After 18 years of music I have never once said, “What’s the point?” or “I give up. When something completes you, you become drawn to it, like magnetism, as every man or woman is seeking that state of fulfillment or completion.
Exposed Vocals. Do you ever make mistakes during performances? How do you handle that? Resin of 502:
I don’t usually have issues, the only difficulty is not to feel vulnerable in my area if I go on to the stage. I wasn’t always set on the right things so I’ve made mistakes, ran with a gang which I fully cannot discuss or disclose, however, these vices follow you. These worries or anxieties cause me to scan the crowd and try to mentally dim out the stage lights so instead of looking hype and ready to conquer it all, there is some anxiety as the struggle is no joke in some parts of our country. Being addicted to substances and a personal bout of homelessness, all before rehab yeah needless to say some people out there want to murder me. The occasional running out of breath is another common mistake, be hype but chill dude, it ain’t the end of the world. Take a second and get your breath and smash it!!
Exposed Vocals Do you tour? Anything interesting happen on tour that you think our readers. would enjoy hearing about?
Resin of 502
No tours yet as addiction was rough for the longest I had ignored a lot of people trying to get me out of the struggle because of the music. Having my head on straight is helping me be my best self and follow up on every lead. So hopefully something pans out very soon. I’m currently waiting on it all to come together and to forever feel my life as changed.
Exposed Vocals. Any planned studio upgrades? What are you working with now? Resin of 502:
Yes there is a major plan when I sell my house and go to an area of the oty I’m not well known I cannot wait either, I’ve been music making off the cost effective Audio Technica 2020, I’m hoping to get an Audio Technica 4040 or a Neumann eventually. It’s taken a lot of mental skill to use literally a mic that is broken (the top part of the mesh even comes off), and creating a sound so crisp and near professional if not professional
Exposed Vocals How do you find ways to promote your music? What works best for you? Resin of 502:
It never hurts to invest yourself into you. Pay that 20 bucks and change your world, feed the promoter you think that wants to scam you but really wants to see you make it. This is an industry You got to have a good character believe it or not in all honesty pay that money or add random people on quick add via Snapchat I have burnt through 8 now banned Snapchats. I don’t know if they ban me for promoting or from having a gun on me always but either way I make another one and reach a whole different group of people
Exposed Vocals. If you could perform anywhere and with any artists (Dead or Aave) where and who would it be with? Why?
Resin of 502:
I’d wanna vibe with people like J Cole, Melly, or Polo G. You can feel their soul and that’s what wanne give away in my music. That piece of my soul for the world. I want you to see through my eyes! These artists paint pictures that’s what I’m about
Exposed Vocals: So, what’s next? Any new upcoming projects that you want to talk about? Resin of 502:
To be honest, I hop out of bed and just create Nothing is planned and almost all my material is freestyled then engineered into perfection. I’m still just trying to make it out of the struggle.
Exposed Vocals: If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing? Resin of 502:
Not living; I’ve accepted that this is the only thing I care about, that this is the only home I’ve July ever had. I’m hoping it will see how many years I’ve spent chasing it and let me just break through to the other side of all my dreams. I don’t do it for money or fame, I just want to touch your heart and help you feel if i don’t make it out I’ll end up dead Whether from gun violence or from drug addiction, however at the moment I believe I am going to go the long road with sobriety. People already had made my house the scene of 2 drive bys. Whether from the gang life in the past or a drug addict wanting to scare me into forfitting something valuable. So, time really is and has been critical Music is my escape from that world I don’t come from privilege so I have fought for all I have Music is the only thing I know of that is no fight all soul Where so many have not a shred of it in the underworld I was once a massive part of So if music wasn’t on the forefront i’d be wrapped up in it all but honestly, stepping away won’t change the fact people know me, so I’m forced to carry my gun. The streets unfortunately following me into the home I live and seems inescapable unless I was noticed and my life was blessed with opportunity to be changed and to distance myself from that reality
Exposed Vocals. What should fans look forward to in the next year or so? Resin of 502:
Hoping to drop an entire album this year I’ve been actually busting butt and buying beats as you cannot do anything without having your beats be yours via licensing and all that. I just dropped two fire tracks that I hope will take me out of poverty and away from violence and into the peace of monetary freedom. Working everyday for 18 years I can say that my skill level is now high enough I can do everything myself and make it big. I just need the eyes to see me, so I have pitched some dough around here and there and invested in me. It’s coming together nicely So to summarize, hopefully I will be on a label and an album done in the next year. Like I said, I got to
make it, otherwise I promise I will be another statistic to the streets even if I don’t go near them. I have faith in the universe as I’m shining and aligning the world to me, so keep your eyes on me and watch this transformation!
Exposed Vocals: Any Shout outs?
Resin of 502:
My aunt and uncle aka Mom and Dad. Tyler W, Brandon and Brittany, my twin, Amanda, YSN LeGacy, and all of Louisville, KY. I told y’all I was gunna keep grinding!!
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resinof502.com
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@Lilresin on Twitter
