“If I was given the choice of any career, other than music and promised I would be 100 percent happy…10 times out of 10… I would choose something else. I really wish I could just walk away from music sometimes. It’s frustrating, impatient and unkind. But on another note it’s the most universal language known to man. It can be rewarding beyond imagination. And I don’t mean monetarily, I mean the feeling you get when you see or hear people singing the words to your songs. Or the feeling you get the first time you hear yourself on the radio. Or you learning that you helped someone thru a tough time because you said you went thru the same thing in one of your songs. There aren’t too many jobs that offer those types of fringe benefits.” After releasing a several well received street albums and EP's including No More Talkin, All Hustle No Sleep, Ambitious Determined & Dedicated, ADD 2: A Dream Deferred and most recently Dreams Never Die. Mista 25/8, as he is often referred, has been hard at work prepping his full length independent album of the same name “Mista 25/8” which will be released through his All or Nuthin Entertainment record label. “At the end of the day everybody isn’t a drug dealer, a baller a pimp or just “doing it big”. Every artist doesn’t create music for everyone. There are regular people out there with real problems, everyday successes and failures. I make music for them. I want to be their voice.”