Meet Wolfgang Damm | conscious Musician

We had the good fortune of connecting with Wolfgang Damm and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Wolfgang, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
I felt there was a “Void” in the world. Something was missing. Everything was surface level. There was no true communication. Everyone following someone else. No one questioning who they really are. Everyone’s lost and scared to be themselves. Everyone buy the same thing or you’re not cool. There is no real raw emotional gritty music anymore. It used to be everywhere. Perhaps it was different in the way it presented it. But it was still raw and emotional.

I never fit in growing up. Had friends but I didn’t think like anybody. I had a hard time controlling how fast my mind would go. Tried hard to study things and actually retain any of the information. I struggled for years until I had a special ed teacher Miss Peterson. She was a short caring woman with the most beautiful hair. Flowing from her head to her back. She taught me how to read fast and worked on my speech and comprehension. shortly after teaching me skills such as typing, speed reading and skimming. She passed away in a car crash and still to this day I must say she taught me more than anybody. I sometimes wonder what I would be like if she was alive still. I also wonder why they told a group of kids how a teacher died.

I was in the first grade when i wrote my first rap. I still remember the first lines. You think you’re hard? You couldn’t kill a lion with a shotgun. It beats many emcees still over 20 years later.

Music was an escape later in life to help me through the problems i would face. I had a mom that was strung out. My dad was extremely psychologically abusive. I was in school troubled by life events and forced myself to eat. I couldn’t eat or sleep. I numbed the wound by making raps. For years there i would go into a psychosis almost every other winter. I cant count the times i have picked the pieces up to paint a pretty picture. How many times I’ve been at rock bottom alone. How many times I’ve tried and failed beautifully. Music was always my escape. Started when I listened to it to help me through pain and eventually I started making it myself. To help people that need something real.

I’ve freestyled steady since i was 12. At one point i would pay people to freestyle with me so i could get better. I’d invite the boys over and get down to business. This happened for some time. what seemed like a moment was several years. crunched into one bite of existence.

Look I’m different I get it. I’m not the person you would see on the billboard. I’m the person you would feel inside on those moments you do not know what to do. Echoing the only thing you can do. Be the best version of you and continue pushing through all of the noise.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I make conscious music that reprograms depressed peoples brain so they start thinking more positive thoughts. How could i possibly do that?

When you are sad, you look for music that you relate with emotionally. You want something sad to help you validate your thoughts. To help you feel it and express it as it is. Be with it in almost stillness. Be alone with the darkness and let it consume you. To see if you can breathe with nothing left.

Once you get them to listen to that you slowly incorporate themes into the music. Words repeated over multiple tracks to get them to start thinking it when the music is not playing. albums start being more upbeat and happy but talking about the same material. Then you shift it to more positive material but from the perspective of the bad thing. From the perspective of this bad thing happened to me and I learned these valuable insights, i got closer to making it, got better as a person from it. I can appreciate so much more now. Granted it hurts more to live now. There is almost a trade off. You get to see something others don’t and perceive what many wont. After you get damaged, walk the road and reflect on what happened. Can you truly move forward. Unless your focused on where you’re going.

As they say in show business. It’s not an overnight thing. It takes 2 days.

You see there is an ocean of fluff out their. Fluff city, Fluff driveway. Even a mayor of Fluff Ville. What are you going to be? A Fluff Ball, GET SOME SKIN IN THE GAME!

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
What time of year is it? Summer? We going to the river. Winter? Were building a giant snow fort with the kids, Any time there is an open mic that’s a favorite spot. I like checking out any new open mics when they pop up. I try to support the scene by giving feedback on what they did right. Listen to this, If you tell someone how they are doing good. It can give them a boost to how much they train and its a much better mood then being told you sucked at something. Also some people’s value is attached to their ability to perform in their mind. so You’re just digging them down when you do this. I personally hate criticism. Every time it makes me feel like. you asked me to do something that didn’t fit the beat at all. You wanted this different thing that i am capable of doing. But now you’re going to judge my whole skill one one freestyle when i haven’t even warmed up or found a beat that fits you yet. Then you start telling me how i should do this. When i in fact can, have and continue to do what your telling me. Just on different beats.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Destined for Greatness Outreach Youth Center

They remind me of Terrance Crawford. Doing Something to help the youth With a positive Impact. He hosts a boxing gym and teaches kids for free how to box. I remember hearing about it and couldn’t believe it wasn’t more known about. I had a big brothers big sister since i was 10. They paid for me to learn the Piccolo Flute .when my mom couldn’t afford payments anymore. Which greatly contributed to my music success. Many concept foreign to modern music. For instance did you know songs don’t always have to be as loud as possible. songs used to get loud and quiet and tempo would change as the song played. It’s remarkable, I know. But try to tell that to literally any musician in my genre.

I have had a lot of mentors and basically all of them taught me for free for some reason i don’t quite see.

Believe i got some things to send them.

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildFlowWisdom

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