Conversations with I K Sega

Today we’d like to introduce you to I K Sega.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I began as a poet shortly after the passing of my grandfather at 11 years of age in pursuit of honoring his final wishes, that being “take care of and protect the family” and to gain a closer relationship to the divine, as I’d learned early in my life that music is one of the closest things/ways we have for having a way to communicate with the creator of all. Poetry helped me cope with loss in my earlier years, but it wasn’t until I learned how to channel that same energy into writing and performing my own original Hip Hop and R&B compositions that I exceled in all of my goals in life, and to this day, this form of therapy eases my psychological conditions.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No, not at all. The career of anybody in the music industry is comparable to a roller coaster. It has ups and downs and plays heavily on one’s psyche, so if you’re not tough mentally and emotionally, this isn’t even a business I recommend to someone without strong morals & values, that isn’t goal-oriented, or that is incapable of being held accountable for their work ethic, because they’d never be successful chasing tiers they may not even require to life a good life. I know it may be cliché that success is defined by the individual, but I know this to be true for me as I completed all I set out to achieve as an independent composer-lyricist. So, for me, I’m successful at completing the goals I aimed to accomplish from pursuing this as a career, not people pleasing and being seen in the way everybody who sees believes about how this business operates when they never even went to school to know about the business of music.

When it comes to additional obstacles and challenges, I’ll just say for me, as a man, the hardships that come with being a male in society have all been there along my journey. The hardest battles, however, have been the interal mental battles and as for physical thus far it was putting myself through college while without housing stability and taking on 2 culinary jobs after graduating to pay the student loans back while still without proper shelter stability due to an incident that led to incarceration years prior, yet completing my education with a 4.0, working 2 jobs with no vehicle so I caught the bus or walked miles to work sometimes working 17+ hours a day in total to pay it down and eventually I plan to pay it off off, and affording my studio equipment during this time period of difficulty in my eyes made me successful though those experiences and life lessons have been some of the roughest challenges in the pursuit to maintain my professional music career.

Due to my situation, which led to the hardships and because I wasn’t one that knew how the business worked until I was already 30, I see the world through a different lens than the average, so ages 11-29 was all winging it and getting lucky while being scammed out of on the high end of at least 5 figures by now, but obtaining financial stability knowledge for how the business specifically works and knowing working on my personal life will change the trajectory of my life, 99% of all problems have fallen away. Balancing a personal and business life isn’t easy at any point, but especially during the creation and establishment of the foundation phase.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a music composer, lyricist, and vocalist specializing in the genres of Hip Hop and R&B. My contacts are a signature to my image, so I gained recognition for how I implemented them in my performances in my earlier years during touring performances.

Accomplishing what I set out to do, staying true to myself, and knowing I discovered how to get paid in royalty checks while young.

I’m only doing this to honor my grandfather’s wish to what he wants me to do for my family and gaining my personal connection to The Most High creator

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I’m honestly just going with the flow. It was never that deep to me to seek fame, as that just comes with the territory. I’m an introvert, so should this go further, that’s cool, but I only seek to land a placement and continue using the business as an asset as a stepping stone into other ventures.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.iksegaverse.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.ksega/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YesIamIKSega/
• Twitter: https://x.com/ik_sega
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@IKSega
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/iksega