My name is Tevin Murray but known as Squadie, born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Living in Jamaica at a time that was extremely violent with my grandmother and nine other cousins music was my only escape from the hard reality that I faced at the time but just like the other kids around the neighborhood I surrounded myself and got involved with drugs and different gangs. In fear of how the way I was living would turn out my parents who moved United States decades before decided I needed a change in environment hoping it would also change the way my life would turn out.

Living in America with no distractions I started striving in school but not knowing how to speak English it was hard to connect with anyone else until I tried impressing a girl from my class by rapping. In that first rap I talked about my dad getting arrested 3 months after me moving here, how before my nine cousins and I used to share a two bedroom house, friends and family that were lost in front my eyes and how I wish I could be someone my family would be proud of. Music specify rap started to become more of who I was but so did depression. Musician like Biggie Smalls, Vybz Kartel, Kenny Rogers, Eminem, and lionel richie was what really got me through that time until a urged me to do more than just listen. Rapping became who I was but I didn’t take it serious until a teacher encouraged me to do poetry and perform whatever I had at the school’s poetry night in front of the neighborhood. By the time I got my first job i was rapping and writing to any beats I could get my hands on.

The most meaningful advice I ever got was from a stranger I met at a car wash it’s that same man that brought me into the studio for the first time. My goal is to become the best rapper in Connecticut, I know it’s going to hard accomplish but I know anything worth having is never easy to get and I’m determined to myself, my family and the people of Connecticut that I have what it takes to be the best but I’m going to let my music speak for me.