INTERVIEW: Gifted da Flamethrowa talks about going back & graduating college while working a day job

Photo courtesy of Gifted da Flamethrowa - obviously!

A few weeks ago my man Gifted da Flamethrowa graduated college with a business management degree.

A few days before he crossed the stage I sat down with him in The Woodlands, Texas to discuss his return to school, balancing that with family and church obligations, and how sometimes a "day job" is the right thing to do despite a person's "full-time music minister" dream title.



See the three previous segments of this interview here.

Part 1 of my "Bulldoze City" interviews with Gifted da Flamethrowa

A few weeks ago I met up with Houston's Gifted da Flamethrowa for a series of interview videos about a range of topics related to hip hop ministry.

Gifted's new album, Bulldoze City, drops tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20 on iTunes and other digital download spots.

Here's the first half.

Part 1 of 7
Gifted on:

• His new album/new label and
• What he's learned from other artists
  

Part 2 of 7
Gifted on:

• Online promotion
• Answering his critics and
• His animated "Reaper" video
  

Part 3 of 7
Gifted on:

• His New Orleans-to-Houston story
• The Lil Wayne impact and
• How he prepares to minister in hoods, prisons, and overseas
  

Part 2 of this series will cover Gifted speaking about going back to college, whether or not he would battle rap, what it means to be a servant, and the humble question he was asked by Malice of The Clipse.

Stay tuned.