Today we’d like to introduce you to Byson Burt.
Hi Byson, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Since I was little, I knew I always wanted to be great and have a lasting impact on the world, I just never knew how that would happen until about June of 2021. I was always struggling with my mental since I was young but when I was 16 it got so out of hand that I knew that I had to get up out of the rut I was in, I had to realize that no one was coming to save me. Little me was in need of an outline because of everything I had been through was so much to bare and at that time the only thing that could make me feel better in some type of way was music. My favorite rappers were: King Von, lil Durk, Li Rye, and Lil baby when I needed motivation which is what led me to start music because I saw how rappers were motivating people in great ways and the effect that it had on some that I, myself wanted to do the same thing. My friend Manny Flonnoy and my uncle are the ones who got me started, which led to me doing freestyles at my school and writing music at home as therapy. Soon after that, I released my first song called ” The Warm-Up” on SoundCloud and I took off falling in love with music after that.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Has it been a smooth road? It has most certainly not been. I wish I could sit here and say that the lifestyle of an independent rapper is easy but it’s not. I have been treated unfairly, got in fights, lost friends, some of my family members don’t agree with my choice to be a rapper, and I have even lost myself sometimes because the creative process is draining for my mental. Somedays I feel stagnant, and some days I really just get so depressed that I can’t even get up out the bed but I know that what I’m doing is going to lead to success and me being able to take care of Ma, my family, and my few real friends that I have. Sometimes when I’m out people recognize me and show love, which makes my days better when that happens because one thing anyone that listens to my music and knows me as a person knows that I encourage people to stay themselves, to love themselves because you don’t need to be anyone else but yourself.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Well known as RedTintedFaith I am an independent artist from ATL. I was born in Houston, TX but I grew up in ATL. My talent, gift is music, I can freestyle a full song from start to finish that is so great people will think that I wrote it, but the fact is, I haven’t wrote a song in 3 years. I find that I can make more meaningful songs when I freestyle because it’s off the top of my head which taps into my more stronger emotions than if I write the song plus, my flow is much better when I freestyle too. What usually happens is that I find motivation from something that happens to me throughout the day or an idea for a song will come to me, then I call my producer Saint Chippy and I tell him what type of beat I want, and after a few days he will send it over and I get in my studio and start recording. But before I do any type of freestyling I listen to the beat a few times to do what I call “marrying myself to the beat” since that’s what it takes for me to make a song, if I don’t have a feel for the beat I cannot record or the song won’t sound right which most artist don’t take the time to do that, they either write or get a ghostwriter.
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I am a man with a plan a man without one is bound to fail. I have foreseen that I will have a very successful music career within the next 5-10 years. You have to manifest what you want for your life, and that is what I am manifesting for mine. I will have such great success I will be able to invest back into my family, the ones who believed in me when I couldn’t believe in myself, and to be able to give to those in need. But, with the amount of success I’m talking about I’m going to need a team and a mentor which I would love to be Li Rye, but I digress.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://redtintedfaith.wixsite.com/redtintedfaith
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redtintedfaithofficial
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedTintedFaith/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redtintedfaith-25ab57229/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/redtintedfaith
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTosz4bf7cngoKafYF0Cb6w
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/redtintedfaith
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1XXyKprRCUJRfMnExeH8JR
Image Credits
RedTintedFaith
Jay
Nene
Sarah
