(Bronson rapping ♪) They say that it's beginner's luck from the first breath of air
♪ I take to inflate my mind's state to spending days on a forklift, I lift my fork and stab it in my steak.
♪ Save the animals, an oxymoron till it's all gone,
♪ trying to search for a solution to fix my flaws, floors I walk on
♪ to live and learn to give and earn where you deserve, I leave behind my expectations.
♪ Just the hypocritical nervousness who likes talking s*** in front of
♪ his witnesses to see their reaction chemical. Time and time again....
I think it's definitely ingrained part of me the surrounding life experiences and things
that have happened to my friends or to me that's giving me that inspiration to
write about, even if it's a story that didn't happen to me I can voice it on
behalf of someone else, if you know what I mean.
I feel like today in the community like a lot
of people can relate to some of the music especially these young kids.
I'm Bronson Price, aka Melodownz, I make music because I love it.
Music helped me through pretty much the hardest times in my life.
Kind of like my meditation, it was like outlet for me express how I was feeling.
I could write about things that were going on in my head that no one else could understand.
Having trouble at school or outside of school if I got into some s***,
once I wrote that down I could get it out and I'd feel better.
♪ Under my paralysis I'm trying to handle it somebody your mind
♪ I found myself with all the cannabis, put a candle lit even though I'm innocent, I'm still a hypocrite
♪ I manage it, I f***ed it up and show without a manager what's happening
♪ besides time pauses, dripping in my thoughts I'm about to help the time now,
♪ it's longer than last time I felt like this when I was younger and my older cousin
♪ racked a pack of gypsies, hear my hunger...
A lot of like Pacific Island families
especially mental health is kind of slept on, it's kind of swept under the carpet.
But there are outlets and there are like people you can talk to
instead of keeping things bottled up inside.
Back in the days I had a couple friends like commit suicide
that it was quite traumatisingas a kid.
Subliminally it bought me into this frame of mind
where I was like 'I want to help people'.
There was an opportunity at a place called Toi Ora.
So a live arts trust, just a place for people that have mental health or
or some disabilities, you can come in they can record music
or they can paint downstairs, do mosaic
and just like a real creative outlet for them to express themselves.
I do like music recording so I help them write their songs,
record them and just like help them with their creative process.
Kids love music and they love being creative and love making beats and
doing videography and all that type of stuff and so like it's made it easier for us
as mentors to help them because there's like a common ground that we both see
and without being like the authority we're kind of down on their level and
they look at us as peers.
That makes it way easier and it's easier to reach
them using music because they love it.
♪ Midnight with a fistfight on our bridges
turn up the sound, never been out of the country before and probably never allowed
on this like for like four years but this should have been five.
Infatuated by drugs, money, s*** about their life.