Brown says that he has learned to take his recovery one step at a time. Over the past nine months he has taught himself how to sit up, feed himself and walk again.
“When people can’t walk, they use their arms to strengthen their legs and they can hold on and hold their body weight up,” he explains. “I had none of that. I had nothing to hold my weight up. I had to learn how to walk with my elbows. It was a hard task.
“I don’t think people understand that and I fought for where I wanted to be. I fought for this life. I fought to be back. I just knew I had to walk again because my purpose wasn’t over, and God kept on showing me why I am where I am and why I went through what I went through that night. It could have been somebody else, but they wouldn’t handle it like me, so I went through it, I stood in the gap and I’m prevailing.”
Just like taking his recovery one step at a time Brown, (real name: Bennie Amey III), has adopted a slow and steady outlook to his career. Brown grew up in a musical family. A Few Good Men, his uncle and cousin’s band, was signed to LaFace Records. As a result, Brown was frequently on the tour bus with TLC, Toni Braxton and Pebbles. He signed his first record deal at seven with NuStarr Records as part of the band X’s 3 with his brothers. These early experiences had Brown certain music was his calling.
Eventually he worked on songs for Pitbull (“Goalie Goalie”), Monica (“Suga”) and Fergie (“M.I.L.F.$”) but it wasn’t until much later that his desire to become an artist came to the forefront. An early mentor was Jasper Cameron, who introduced Brown to the industry and showed him the ins and outs.
“I went along from engineering to vocal producing to writing people’s records and I decided, ‘Hey, I’m tired of giving people my songs to narrate. I want to narrate my own story,’” he says. “I feel like it couldn’t be more authentic than coming out of my mouth. … From then on, I just started the journey, followed the course and stayed on track with what I felt like was my purpose.”