Today we’d like to introduce you to BEO Spook.
Hi BEO, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I learned how to rap from watching my older brother and my uncle rap and make music then I started to make beats to see if my brother was able to rap on them until I started rapping myself and me and my brother started rapping together in the room before I started to take music seriously.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I’ve had plenty of obstacles that detoured me from music from the passing of one of my closest friends who I considered my brother (Donte Straughter) to constantly getting kicked out of school and having my assistant principle in high school tell me how she would make it her duty to make sure I was expelled, then getting kicked out of my mother’s home at 17 and getting kicked out of my dad’s home a couple years after and trying to figure out life without any guidance. Growing up all I had was my sister, brother, and my mother.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m an artist, not just a rapper, I grew up getting in a bunch of altercations and a staff at my school suggested I take up boxing since I was always in physical altercations (which I did end up doing) until people started to recognize my music and how unique my punch lines and story telling about personal experiences.
What were you like growing up?
Growing up I never really seen or had my father so I grew up a little rebellious and had 2 football coaches at Overton High School who acknowledged me in the hallway and stepped in as father figures named Coach Hubbert and Coach Harris who got me on the football field to keep me out of trouble and stayed on me to do better in school and I also joined to bowling team with a Coach named Dr. Smith who also played a major role in me trying to do better in school, and my uncle who I call “Lil Mane” started me off boxing but when I started rapping all of that went out the window because music became my therapy to life.
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