DBO

DBO

- Le'Deana Brown

Your name has preceded you from sports, to music, to things that have happened in the streets in the city… Dumes has been a household name for a long time as far as the streets. I took it to the basketball world, now I’m bringing it to music, just trying to keep It alive. I was kind of prepped for the lights. As far as being under scrutiny and being a ball player and things of that nature. It was a great prep for this existence.

What was it like being away but knowing your music was moving despite the situation? It was different because I would see a lot of individuals come through either in the county or in prison and they knew my music. I knew that people kind of knew of the buzz, but I didn’t know how extreme or to the extent that it was. People would tell me over the phone, the buzz is crazy, the buzz is crazy but it’s hard to believe something you can’t see.

Do people still ask you about sports? Yeah they do that was majority of what they asked about if it wasn’t the music. They would be like, “aw that’s the IU guy.” I still get that question.

What prompted the changing of lanes? It seems like you were raised in it, you were going for it, you were all in and it stopped. The music came about years ago. My freshmen year in college a close friend of mine told me I should pursue it, so I kept pursuing it. The basketball never really stopped, but it slowed in a way. When I couldn’t get a job after going through 3-4 agents I kind of trickled back into the streets. Once the streets came, the music just kind of compounded with it. My music displays a lot of the stories I’ve been through.