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Campus Celebrity, Thomas Blake

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UNCW chapter.

Name: Thomas Blake

Stage Name: T Blake

Year: Junior

Hometown: Lexington, NC

T Blake is an amazing rapper who currently attends UNCW. He’s becoming a well-known name around campus due to his growing popularity among UNCW students. Read on to find out why!

 

HC: What’s your favorite thing about being a student at UNCW?

I love the people here. Everyone here is very down to earth and chill and easy to get along with. Very accepting. Wouldn’t want to go anywhere else.

HC: What inspired you to pursue a career in rap?

My friend Logan when I was in 7th grade was really into rap music. I wasn’t at the time and he convinced me to make a song with him. He loved rap music and neither one of us had ever really thought about rapping. We recorded it on his computer mic and I’ve been rapping ever since.

HC: What’s the hardest part about rapping?

Being something new. Nobody wants to do what everybody before them has done in music, or at least I don’t. Trying to combine witty wordplay while telling a story is probably the hardest thing I try to do.

HC: Who’s your favorite rapper? Why?

Almost impossible to answer. Asher Roth was the reason I kept rapping when I was younger. A good white rapper to look up to but now I might have to go with Childish Gambino for sure. The Internet (his most recent album) is one of my favorite projects of all time.

HC: Any past times other than rapping?

I love playing soccer, reading comics and playing video games sometimes. Pretty nerdy stuff.

HC: If people wanted to listen to your tracks online, where should they look?

On soundcloud.com/therealtblake not much new is up because I’m recording a mixtape but more should be releasing soon. I also have an old video on Youtube called t-blake – violins. Not that great, but it’s a video.

HC: Are you performing at any shows soon?

I’m rapping at KaP at UNCG in early December for a party they are putting on.

HC: Any advice for other aspiring rappers?

I don’t know if I’m the one to really give advice because I haven’t even come close to “making it” yet but the things I tell myself are don’t stop. Be the exception. So many times people ask what I like to do and I say rap and get the weirdest faces and get responses like “no way” or “you’re probably garbage” or something like that. Then some of them hear me rap or my music and opinions change. Just don’t stop, work hard and keep being you.

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Asia Francine Butler, known amongst her friends as "The Last of the Time Lords" is a professional student for the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After receiveing her International Baccalaureate Diploma in December of 2013 and being immersed in the friendly and lively atmosphere of UNCW, she decided to pursue a variety of interests, including, but not limited to writing for both Her Campus UNCW and Cape Fear Living Magazine, acting as an Orientation Leader for the International Students, being a Conversation Partner for the English as a Second Language students at UNCW, being a Peer Mentor for incoming International Students, and being a Historian in the Seahawk Crossing for the Residence Hall Association, being a Brother of the academic National Honors Fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi, and being a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda's honors society. She writes at least four articles a month, two for Her Campus UNCW and two for Cape Fear Living Mgazine, and has positively affected the lives of hundreds of international exchange students and UNCW students. Furthermore, she have positively affected and engaged in the lives of many people in the North Carolina community through volunteering with Habitat for Humanity UNCW, UNC Weekends, Burrito Bikers, and playing intramural soccer. Although she has a passion for writing, she is enrolled as a history major in the University of North Carolina Wilmington in preparation for entering law school in the Fall of 2016. While she enjoys temporarily living at the beach for most of her college career, her heart lies with her two adorable German Shepherds, Mitch and Maple along with the loving Butler parents and her two creative and beautiful younger sisters in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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