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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT — KHING JUS WURK By : Terrance Hazly
How did you get started ? Describe the unique spelling of your name to us as well .
Well I first started my career in hip-hop when I was in the Group Home Hawthorne Cedar Knolls in Westchester N . Y at the age of around eight years old . And it stuck with me ever since , I have been writing my own material since I was twelve years old . Went through many stages to reach the point that I am at my career hasn ’ t been easy and that ’ s where my name came from . I am Wurk and it ’ s actually Jus Wurk but I decided to add the Khing for a little flare .
The spelling it self represents my uniqueness when it comes to Wurk the U means just that u Work . When it comes to the spelling of king with h that was added for the hate It also helps me stand out from the rest gotta actually spell it how it is K-h-i-n-g J-u-s W-u-r-k and when you do all the info you see will be mines and mines , it ’ s a marketing tool . Real hard to build up because when you enter my info auto correct automatically corrects it . Could even say that obstacle alone increase my grind because I have to have enough information out there to try and stop the system from auto correcting and go straight to all my material . It ’ s nothing though you feel me Wurkkk !
Tell us about your writing abilities & flow style .
I ’ m not like the rest or these “ rappers ” I don ’ t just put a bunch of hot words together on a hot beat and cross my fingers . I also don ’ t just write rap music I write R & B and Pop tracks also . My lyrics are a part of who I am , my life the things I ’ ve been through and witnessed . Through my music I tell a story all you have to do is take a moment to listen . I don ’ t sit for hours on a track and try to force out a hit . I vibe I let the track speak to me get , into my zone . And then let it go , and not matter what I make sure to stay true to me . Pay close attention to everyone or my tracks , if you want to catch me in a lie . You ’ ll see your self I ’ m having fun with this , don ’ t stunt on not one line … but I ’ m coming harder and harder every time . No metaphors or big words or complicated saying you must look up . I ’ m direct you will understand and more than likely pardon me say I feel the same motherfucking way .
What type of obstacles have you encountered getting to where you are ?
I don ’ t have enough room , but I am going to speed through the life of Wurk and I want you to bear with me going to be a brief summary . I was born in Kings County Brooklyn from Redhook ( Poor Block ) Pops named Nitty Moms Lisandra my fam was and still is very heavy out there , and I always wondered how life would been if I grew up there you know the place where everybody knows everybody and ya mother grew up with his aunty who married you brothers sister LOL , they still love me though I mean its home … nah but I was in foster care by five and by eight I was in the group home , went back with my moms when I was twelve and by fifth teen I was back in state custody this time juvenile detention didn ’ t come home until I was almost eighteen years old and this is the beginning , there ’ s more . After that I started moving around a lot seen some places , and a lot … seen a whole a lot of things happen and it was all soooo fast , most of the time it ended up with me in jail . And to be honest this was my life until 2013 when I was released from Franklin county TN that was the final straw I have kids and I was trying so I thought , my baby mother told me if I didn ’ t ship up I would lose my kids . So ever since then I have been putting all I have into this music , because after all that moving being alone … I just couldn ’ t lose my babies . Choose to be someone