AmonReThe8thSign

MY PURPOSE Amon Re The 8th Sign - born Jermaine Price - is a Forest City, North Carolina rapper who has spent the last seven years perfecting his craft at his homebase in Chicago, Illinois. Averse to labels, he prefers to refer to himself as a “conscious” artist who uses his emotional acuity and skill for empathy to become a vessel for people’s struggles with self, society, or life in general. Channeling the experiences of others through music, his goal is to elicit in the listener a moment of visceral connection in the hopes of creating what he describes as “a soundtrack to your life.” Drawing inspiration from the everyday, everything including the vibrations and frequencies people exude on a simple bus ride can provide the platform for a song from Amon Re. Also using his music as an outlet for his own voice, Amon Re admits Jermaine Price was a shy kid, and Hip-Hop has provided the latter with a safe space in which to openly express his thoughts, whether offensive or enlightening. The middle child of five siblings, he experienced a tragedy in 2012 when his older brother was murdered. It wouldn’t be until he was 26 years old that he would meet his own father. It was around this time he went back to school, studying broadcasting at a local community college, a drastic change in the life of a high-school dropout working odd jobs. After graduating he obtained a job as a production assistant on a nationally syndicated television show, working his way up to producer, eventually being nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. But music has found its way back into his life.