“I wasn't really into trying to rap or do hip-hop or nothing like that because everybody in my neighborhood was doing it,” he tellsA near-death experience in 2011 that found Warlick staring down the barrel of a .45 caliber pistol led him down a new direction, spiritually and creatively.
“I felt God’s power then,” Warlick says. “That's when I started seeking God more. I started making music not long after that. I wanted to do something that would get me away from the environment that I was in. That's when [God] gave me the vision of ‘God, love, unity.’” Wide Open Music founder and fellow Jackson native Ash Bowers also discovered Warlick via his video tributes, specifically, Warlick’s mix of Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved,” and signed him to a management deal. “I thought he was a great rapper and had a cool vibe about him, so I reached out,” says Bowers, who also manages Jimmie Allen and Matt Stell.
A welder by trade, Warlick finally quit his eight-year job working at a railroad in December in order to focus on music full time. Warlick set up shop at Nashville’s South X Sea Studios to work onwith writing/production duo Blake Hubbard and Jarrod Ingram, who have worked with artists including rapper NF and are professionally known as The 720.
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