Oakland has produced many good artist throughout the years. Many well known and many just Oakland known. When an artist gets exposed to other people besides people that live in Oakland, that’s a good feeling. I always enjoying hearing or seeing some good new about an underground artist. Some popular artist like Kehlani, G-Eazy,Sage the Gemini, MC Hammer, Keyshia Cole and many more. Even though Oakland goes through some hard times we still try to make something of ourselves. With all the violence that has been occurring some good things can still happen. One artist that really sticks out to me would have to be Kehlani. I had the honor of being in the same room as her when she came to my school to talk to our music department. I wasn't even the music I had to skip my 3rd period and sneak into the auditorium just to hear her speak. Just the other day I was watching her snapchat stories and now she was there right in front of me, it was surreal. After all the picture taking, she sat down and talked to everyone. She told us to chase our dreams and not to let anyone stop you. This really stuck to me throughout the school year cause I saw it in her eyes, she really wanted us to make something out of ourselves. We weren't the only high school she visited, she visited almost all Oakland high schools that day just to talk to them. Just seeing the efforts she took to talk to us was motivating. It motivated me to do something I want to do and to be happy. Another motivating thing that Kehlani did was prove people wrong. Sadly she attempted to take her life after a big media scandal between her and her ex Kyrie Irving. But it didn’t stop her. She recovered and a couple of months later drop a song called “CRZY” which made the world literally go crazy. Seeing her being able to overcome that motivates me even more and I just want to see more artist like her.
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