Daily Inspiration: Meet Afrocentric Icon

Today we’d like to introduce you to Afrocentric Icon.

Hi Afrocentric , can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
The journey in music started in 2023 but the dream to be a music producer was there since 2017. I could write a few lines here and there back then but I didn’t really think of it as anything special plus I didn’t have means to get studio equipment at the time, then stars aligned later on and I moved from Rwanda to the US in July 2022, got a job and saved for a home studio. I kept writing lines here and there, in 2023 I started feeling like writing more and taking it serious and that is how I shifted from production to being a rapper going by the name of Afrocentric Icon.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Wouldn’t say it has been easy because I’m somewhat still new to this and I make mistakes then correct them, I see my own growth from where I started to now. I’m trying to build connections with people in the industry.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My music gives off a certain feel, I put my soul in it. I rap about different topics from inner monologues to global issues, love and Pan-Africanism. Heavy on the the last one as my name is Afrocentric. I make sure to push good messages through my music, it makes me proud when someone reaches out to me saying a certain song helped them in any way.

If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
Growing up I was a quiet kid most of the time, and my personality would drastically change when I met my friends as in suddenly laughing out loud and being more playful. I loved music of course pretty much any song that sounded great regardless of the genre but as I grew up, Hip-Hop also grew a special place in my heart.
For the most part I didn’t like the environment at school because I had social anxiety, got good grades most of the time, sometimes they weren’t.
My interests varied as I grew up, there was a time I wanted to be a priest, found out that I liked girls more then I shifted to pilot, astronomer, dentist but when I was sixteen I wanted to have a career in music and it stood out, it kept calling me then I answered.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/afrocentric.icon
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afrocentric.icon
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1A9KVcnFwS/
• Twitter: https://x.com/afrocentricicon
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@afrocentricicon
• Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/S7ypfE1KRwst7f1H8