I want you to imagine, just for a second, looking at a resume that seems, well, completely physically impossible. So you are holding two pieces of paper. And on the first page, you’re reading the profile of a teenager who is just caught in this brutal decade -long cycle of incarceration. We are talking serious heavy charges here.

And it hits over six point three million views on YouTube. That kind of organic traction was monumental for a fully independent artist at that time. And it led him to spaces that were incredibly receptive to raw, unfiltered trauma. Like in 2020, he performs at the gathering of the Juggalos.

• On the first page, you’re reading the profile of a teenager who is just caught in this brutal decade -long cycle of incarceration
• I thought the exact same thing when I first looked at the sources for this, but it’s not an error
• For this deep dive, we are unpacking the sweeping, entirely true and profoundly story driven biography of Jason Bradley DeFord
• Completely walks away from the church and gets arrested for the very first time