This @$$hole dropped out of school to become a "rapper," Mortal Mic, to become a blue-collar steel worker named DeWilde, who walked into a union shop and passed up people who’d been sitting on their asses for 20 years waiting to be “trained.” (This is a f***** obnoxiously long sentence. Kinda cool. F****** read it again)*
“I got distracted in life. I knew I was destined to make music (merp merp), but somehow ended up in a job that smells like sulfuric acid, nightmares, molten metal, and regret.
Twelve-hour shifts. No lunch. No breaks. Iron fines glittered in the air. ‘You can eat while you work, I guess.’
Go ahead, smoke inside, nobody cares.
Just get your a$$ to work.
First day, first sentence, the manager looks me dead in the eye and says-a, “f*** this & an F*** that, and that Mother******."
I laughed inside, I had to. Never experienced that. Not every place hides behind HR. Some places are a little more raw and uncut (so, yeah, that's kinda what you're getting).
And yeah, I learned from real ones. Men, who work through retirement if capable, because that’s what we do. Men who've dedicated their lives to their craft.
WE DON'T WORK... IT'S JUST WHO WE ARE (f***ing scoff).
This is the young me speaking to the old me. The old man speakin to the young buck. Teaching me. Teaching the kid I used to be. Teaching the man wanna become.
Our jobs don’t break us (although sometimes it feels like it might). That 16-hour grueling shift is who the fuck we are.
It's who, i am. It sharpened me.
Turned me into someone who could finally face himself, and tell him to get the f*** back up.
Now I take all that chaos and turn it into clothes (turn it into somethin, start with clothes).
Into stories you can wear. Into something real.
If it speaks to you, cool. I made it for the ones who see themselves in the mess. No dumb f***ing hunting puns. Loser to steel mill. Loser to music, fashion, and trying not to be a piece of shit (like tryin to give back. We live such fortunate lives).
Buy some f***ing merch.
Save a couple ducklings.
Saving me is saving you. Save yourself if you feel like it.
- Mortal