How Shelley FKA DRAM’s Path to Self Discovery Helped Build His Comeback

James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, has a passage about pursuing a career in music that is still relevant today: “She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn’t a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demanded a whole lot more than a voice.”
Musicians who come to this realization — they all eventually do — must make a choice: Accept all that comes when a career becomes a life to endure, qui