Meet Christopher Carson

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christopher Carson.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Christopher. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I’ve been around music all of my life, my mother was a singer and my father was a rapper and used to host parties in the 80s. As a child, I remember sitting in studios and playing with the keys and buttons on soundboards. I begin to write music for myself the age of 13. I was sitting in the back of my mom’s truck listening to music and I thought so myself this is what I want to do. So me and two other friends began a gospel rap group known as the church boyz. At this same time, I was also making major life mistakes. After a few years of rapping gospel music I had to take a different path do the lifestyle that I was living.

The group was then changed to cbz. Where I began to try different rapping styles. At that time, I’d probably say I had at least 4 or 5 different styles. A change in my pitch or the melody I would use. I even tried singing which I don’t think worked out (maybe because of puberty). But for a few years, we performed at various venues in the valley.

After a few years of creative differences, we decided to disband the group and go our own ways. At this time, I was rapping under the name Divine and I began to create mixtapes. I had landed a recurring slot in open mic at a place called Webber’s bar and grill. Shortly after, I began to manage a small group of local artists gaining notoriety in our city by doing small shows and venues anywhere that we could find. Even grabbing a few Las Vegas shows.

Soon thereafter, I began a spiritual journey to find myself learning chakras and how to control my energy. Some years later, I am a father of four one son and three beautiful girls. And now after reaching some of my goals with the release of 4 2 1 I want to show what I’ve done and become not only as an artist but as a man. Knowing that I may have changed some life even for a second to me means more than being paid for my music.

Has it been a smooth road?
There have been plenty of struggles on my path. My first obstacle ever was convincing The Gospel world that I was a musician. Nobody wanted to listen to a young kid that was in the streets talkin about God. But I look at that as building resilience to resistance because they told me no and I kept pushing. Honestly fighting for my dreams is taking me to the lowest of lows and the highest of highs. Lights to me every obstacle is just an opportunity to become a better person.

Can you give our readers some background on your music?
Honestly, I don’t like to call myself artist rapper musician I like to call myself a bridge gapper. The way I said is everybody has a story and everybody’s going through something somebody’s story may be similar you telling your story may change someone else’s life.

So I guess if I had to say what I specialize in that specialize in changing lives. Not by doing anything personally to anyone but just telling people that they can do it themselves. Like my mother always tells me, self-love is the best love.

Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
LA is the city I was born and raised in this is the city I’m raising my children in. Los Angeles is one of the only cities that you can go from the beach to the desert to the snow to the mountains all in the same day. The variety of stores and markets it’s like the whole world in one place.

But at the same time there being so many things in one place it also causes a lot of clusters in traffic.

Contact Info:

• Email: slzccarson@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slz4c/
• Other: https://songwhip.com/artist/ccarson

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