Today we are continuing with our special music in May Thursday episodes.

Super excited.

My guest is Toronto-raised former elementary school teacher, turned rapper, spoken word artist,

poet, international best-selling author, Humble the Poet.

Though his former students used to just know him as Mr. Singh, he's performed at concerts

in festivals around the world, including little places like Lala Paloza, and now it kind

of splits his time between Toronto and Los Angeles.

So in today's conversation, which I would probably describe as fiercely honest, wide-ranging,

we take a deep dive into not only his journey from teaching to music and rapping, video, spoken

word, but also how his experience as the child of immigrants, being raised in the sick tradition,

and in his words, not seeing anyone else in the music world who looked like him, how

that all really shaped his lens on possibility, on his stories, and his voice, and his values.

And we dive into a series of moments and really honest awakenings, often painful reckonings,

that woke him up to how he wanted to live his life and devote himself to his craft and

his vocation.

In addition to his music, Humble also has a great new book out that distills 101 short and

sweet insights for better living, called Unlearn, that you definitely want to check out,

and as with all of our music in May episodes, Humble shares a bit of a musical offering

at the end, this time in the form of a spoken word piece, which you don't want to miss,

so be sure to stick around for the whole conversation.

So excited to share this with you on Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

I'm curious when the threads of what you're doing now, to your earliest recollection when

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