nakEdtruth... one word, all lower case letters, capital E

Artist. Engineer. Entrepreneur. Sound Designer. Music Producer. Educator.

Award-winning songwriter, nakEdtruth, carries many titles that are oftentimes meld together for his artistic endeavors. His creativity began as a child drawing comics with a pencil and paper. He later found a pen and began to write. By the time he reached his teens, he was actively recording and performing songs as a part of a Hip Hop trio known as Pure Genius.

Still moderately active in music, the south Louisiana native went off to college to become an engineer. Upon graduation, he secured a position in his new career, but he also decided to pursue a solo career in music, which gave birth to the new moniker nakEdtruth. Late 2013, he released his first solo song and followed exactly one year later with his first mixtape, Still Young. Still Grown, which grew legs to become its own movement as the merch took off. A little over a year later he decided to bravely change his career from engineer to full-time artist/entrepreneur.

After a three-year run off SYSG along with singles and features, he dropped another mixtape, Hiatus Rap (2018). Within that period of touring, perfecting his crafts and building his brand, nakEdtruth endured the true struggles of a starving artist, which happens to be a song title of one of the tracks on his first self-produced, solo, studio album, Innocence to Experience (2019). Among other highlights from that project was the animated music video for the song "Makeda" which was designed to inspire young women of color.

The latest and greatest of nakEdtruth’s works is his sophomore album, GROW. This project is meant to display his newly developed skills as an artist as well as his growth as a person. Through this body of work, he showcased his skill sets in creative direction and sound designing (for which he recently earned a master's degree).

So, what’s next from nakEdtruth…?


“What you choose to be is dictated or manipulated by the world, but who you are is how God made you. Stay nakEd..”

— nakEdtruth