Taking risks is a natural progression in life. If you want better or more, you best believe you’re going to have to take some gambles. Enter the Jamaica-born rapper,
Gamble. From his bad boy past to his riveting music merging Hip-Hop and traditional reggae/dancehall sounds, Gamble is all about taking risk in order to garner a better life. “I worked 260 hours of community service before getting my first nine-to-five job at a fast food restaurant, and they fired me after they found out about my record.” Like aforementioned, Gamble definitely doesn’t have a squeaky clean past, but his prior mistakes gave him permission to pursue his music and passion. “I knew it would never be easy for me to get a job. And every one of my friends and family said I should pursue my music, so I decided never to work doing something I can’t love and follow my dreams of being a hip-hop artist.”
Gamble was born with the name Blake Magnus. At the age of 8, he moved from Jamaica to a community right outside of D.C. It wasn’t long until Gamble’s innate bad boy behavior started to tap in where he got involved with drug dealing and local street gangs. In a desperate attempt to put a stop to Gamble’s misbehavior, Gamble’s mother moved him to the Carolinas in order to stay out of trouble. The change of atmosphere and people didn’t stop a young Gamble. While in North and South Carolina, Gamble racked up six felony charges and served time in jail for selling drugs. It wasn’t until he was released from jail and decided to live in Jamaica that Gamble started to make a complete turnaround. It was seeing the everyday struggle that people go through in Jamaica that inspired him to refocus all of his rebellion and angst into his art. It inspired though-provoking and ear-catching songs like “I Need Money”, “Helping Hand”, and “Why Is Life So Sad?” Performing in venues in Jamaica, Gamble has already been able to see what the effects of his music take on the people that listen to it. “[…] I had that moment when I rapped in front of a small audience at a local bar and [I] made two grown women cry tears of joy saying they related to the song.” Once a felon and now an artist inspiring tears and smiles from his listeners, Gamble continues to take his artistry to the next level.
Gamble presents his fans and his potential followers a unique opportunity in seeing his growth and development as an artist from the beginning before stardom. He humbly records through his P.C. and remains inspired by the third world around him in order to make music that remains conscious and honest to who he is, was, and where he comes from. That’s a dedication and formula that doesn’t leave much for a chance or a gamble, at all.
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