How do you find yourself in a position that not even you can explain. That's what i'm in right now. I want to get out but at the same time i'm trapped and I hope no one finds the key to unlock me from this powerful feeling of love and hurt all bundled together like a cocoon about to burst and set free all my emotions. like every heartbeat is me trying to get out but every deep breath is a chance to stay in. never bite the hand that feeds you...but what if what i'm getting fed isn't food but an enrichment of pain and sadness..and in order to break free I must hurt the one handing it to me. I don't want to hurt but I want to stay this way, not for a day but forever, forever in the lock of my feelings that are suffocating me but as I gasp for air I find the harshness of life without this feeling and sink into my thoughts where dreams are better than reality, and i'd rather have a nightmare than be tossed around in my soul while I decide what I want, because in nightmares I can't feel the pain and I can still be who I want to be freely and carelessly cause in nightmares you die, wakeup and forget it ever happened. but my reality cannot be forgotten.

I'm sick to death of people judging other people. And Mostly when they don't even know the person they are judging. it's just like BAM i'll judge you cause your boyfriends sisters cousins best friends neighbors daughter told me that you are a slut. WOW really? Well then that means they must be a slut, cause i'll be damned if when word of mouth gets around it isn't the complete truth. Honestly, it's pathetic and you must be really sad if your only mission in life is to make others feel bad about themselves. What if someone is having the worst day of their life, they just can't take anything anymore and they want to kill themselves and then they find out from their friend that someone called them ugly or worthless and that just pushes them off the edge. Peoples life's could literally be in your hands and your rude remarks that you just say because you feel bad about your own existence and think it wont harm anyone are just irrelevant so people need to do themselves and the world a favor and stop judging people based on NOTHING. Leave them alone and worry about your own life.

These past few days I have barely been listening to real music. I've been caught up in a catchy beat and a cute voice to not even realize what I am listening to. Usually this wouldn't bother me but now it does. Every little detail that music portrays catches my attention. The beat and when the artist begins to raise or lower their light or deep voice onto their unique track, how they take a breath after rhyming too much that they just need a gasp of air to finish, when the beat drops halfway through a song and switches to a higher tone to convey a message of hope only through sound itself. But i'm over here wondering why Ke$ha is repeating herself all the time and i'm actually listening to it. I want to just listen to the music that makes me happy but the music that makes me happy is killing the one part of me that keeps me sane. It opens too many emotions and makes my actual soul feel it. I'm actually scared to listen to some of my favorite artists because they make me think too much about myself and the world I live in. And these other artists are just singing in their auto-tuned overrated voices about God knows what and I actually don't care. I don't understand any of this and I don't expect anyone else to. Just a personal problem that will fade in time like any other problem or feeling i've felt. Music is just a great escape.

Dreams Do Come True

"Sage Bravo - Runaway"

Malcolm Peoples (Sage Bravo) is an aspiring young artist from West Baltimore, MD. Malcolm's influences stretch as far as David Ruffin of the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Sam Cooke, to modern day influences such as Jay-Z, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Nas, and Joe Budden. 


What music did you listen to when you were younger and who inspired you to begin to write and make music?

Well, of course the legends always inspired me. Micheal Jackson being the most influential. He ruled the world! Did whatever he wanted, united people of all races, and was a dreamer. ALL inspirational for me to begin music as a study. Along with James Brown, Marvin Gaye, David Ruffin, and folks like that. As far as how I began, my mother said I always scratched her records up on her radio. So I learned at the age of two or so, that music was my calling.

Who influences you today?

Kanye West, Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Yelawolf. All the REAL hip-hoppers that made it based on the music THEY wanted to do. They made hip hop relevant again in the days of "Dumb" music. Kanye West is Definitely the primary influence. He's gained so much culture that his music is incomparable. So I chase the same effect.

There's obviously mainstream and underground music. What do you find the difference between the two?

On the business side, clearly it's the levels of marketing and promotion. Nothing is that much more different in the artists that are behind the music. The things that make them stand out are marketing and promotion. Talent means nothing and visuals mean everything. Music is how you love it. If you develop culture behind your craft, become more of a student and understand logic and music theory, your concepts become more original, and you also become more appreciative of the artistry and work you do.

What inspires you when you are making music? Is there a certain topic you tend to focus on, or are there a broad range of subjects that you touch on?

For the most part, the dreams of being in places like Monaco, Brazil, Los Angeles inspire my music. I can close my eyes, and smell the leather of an Aston Martin and i've never been in one. I can hear the ambience of a casino in Vegas, but never been. So inspiration comes from the laws of attraction. My desire to be there, and I feel like the only way I can get to those places I dream about is if I capture the dream in verbal rhythmic form. Basically; culture, and determination fuel my dreams

How are you as a young artist planning on getting attention in the music industry?

The music industry is actually a big door that anybody can run thru. But the problem is, all the wrong people get thru out of the many that are rushing in. So I am gonna go left, and do it on my own. My marketing and promotion team have a strict confidential blueprint to follow, along with my knowledge of the industry. As far as what catches attention, will very much be the sense of realism and humbly experienced young man with the image of a pretty boy typical "rapper". That, and the fact i'm a new face with a new voice.

If you would like to know more about Sage Bravo, hear his music and see his progression then you can check out his sites here:
www.reverbnation.com/sagebravo
www.youtube.com/OfficialSageBravo
www.twitter.com/sagebravo
www.twitter.com/DreamLeaderSage