Oakland artist Jamel Smith aka Mr. Smith got his start in the rap game as an 11 year old boy who read
his older brother’s notebook of lyrics and later taking that same book to school to rap in front of his
fellow students. Encouraged by the continued reaction he was receiving young Jamel eventually moved
on to writing for himself and by 14 years of age, with Eminem as his inspiration, recorded his first
record. “I didn’t have the best of life, so I appreciated that he could express the things that he was going
through,” says Mr. Smith in regards to Eminem being...
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his older brother’s notebook of lyrics and later taking that same book to school to rap in front of his
fellow students. Encouraged by the continued reaction he was receiving young Jamel eventually moved
on to writing for himself and by 14 years of age, with Eminem as his inspiration, recorded his first
record. “I didn’t have the best of life, so I appreciated that he could express the things that he was going
through,” says Mr. Smith in regards to Eminem being...
View Discussion Text