Check Out Rhyme Taylor’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rhyme Taylor.

Hi Rhyme, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I’m not even sure where to even start. It’s been a pretty asymmetrical journey. I’m originally from Evansville, Indiana, which isn’t the most progressive or innovative place to grow up. It’s a pretty depressing place for the most part. But, some of the most talented people I know are from there. There aren’t creative or professional outlets available for somebody like me. It just wasn’t somewhere I could personally thrive. I barely graduated high school because I stopped attending by senior year. However, my SATs, in which I showed up hungover, were high enough that I was still allowed to attend a local university, which is when my path to self-discovery got interesting. My best friends and I had gotten a house off-campus, and we turned it into our imaginary club. It was such a short period we were there, but it’s wild to look back at how much it inspired where I am today. This was also a time before I went fully reclusive and was still into social gatherings. So we’re hosting parties and get-togethers frequently, and I find myself getting really into putting it together.

Regarding the themes, organization, and promo, I enjoyed curating our experiences more than I did participate in the partying. This was also around when I decided to begin exploring rapping as a legitimate career choice because that’s what all high school burnouts do when they get into college. It wasn’t this pretty linear, but I eventually focused all my educational endeavors on marketing, PR, and anything that would help me establish myself more in the industry I thought I wanted to be in music and entertainment. Immediately after college, I worked odd jobs and even interned with a local music production company, now called The Eric Group. And that was one of the most formative experiences I had. It was a masterclass in learning what independent musician truly endures daily to establish themselves and stay afloat. And though my varying experiences were leading me in a direction towards growth. It wasn’t leading me to riches or much of a paycheck. I guess my “backup plan” had always been to work in schools as a teacher, which I did, working at various pre-college enrichment programs and teaching English abroad in Italy. I spent time freelancing and working for branding and PR agencies. Most recently, though, my experiences and interests have converged, as we are building web3 ecosystems for artists and creatives. I’ve been a crypto nerd for the last 5 or 6 years. For almost two years now, I’ve been working with one of the top blockchain projects in the space, Near Protocol, to integrate NFTs and other blockchain tools into creative communities, focusing on creating actual value and utility among those community ecosystems. I’ll also perform at one of the blockchain conferences in September.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It hasn’t been a smooth road. For me, my biggest battle has been with depression. My mental health struggles are something that my inner circle is aware of, but outside of the lyrics in my music, I haven’t been super public about them. Sometimes my days are full of omens and meaning; other times, I’m overcome with nihilism, apathy, and grey clouds. In one of the tracks I’m excited to be released, there is a lyric, “suicide on my mind but I’m dealing, once I get my head right ill be lethal,” and that very much encapsulates how I feel I’ve had plenty of other failures and disappointments too. My family home disintegrated in a fire going into college. I’ve lost love failed countless times with countless opportunities, and my dad died unexpectedly earlier this year. I’m aware these things aren’t unique to me, but they’re part of my story, and they all suck, regardless of who you are.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Lately, I’ve been embracing the Cryptopreneur Lifestyle. I’ve been trying to balance what some would consider entrepreneurship with being an artist, and I’m coming closer to accepting that there is no delineation between them. It’s like a Formula 1 racetrack in my head most days. But I’m trying to avoid working in an office for somebody, whatever that is. In September, ill be performing at a blockchain conference in Lisbon, Portugal; we’ll also demo some new airdrop and NFT marketplace features. I never wanted to be Eminem and rapping at 50 years old; music has always been a vehicle for me and a way to relate. Rap is the language of now; for me, music has always been a way to make sense of the world, share my story, and hopefully add value to the world. Through music and the charming mantra brand, we wanted to be an example of what it means to recognize and live your purpose. Everybody has their life mantra. And everybody’s path and benchmarks of success look different. And that’s what we wanted the brand, more an idea, to represent possibilities. As we’ve moved more into the web3 space, we’ve taken the Charmed moniker and established Charm3d.io, one of the first web3 agencies. Helping artists and brands understand their potential for web3 integrations and building those strategies within their communities. We’re working with Asher Roth to build web3 features with his artist community. It’s not been something we’ve started promoting actively yet, at least publicly, but we’re stoked to see the project come together. Everybody is finishing a collaborative music project that will ultimately manage via DAO. So, collaborators will have voting rights in decisions for the project and transparency in any royalty splits that come from sales, which will be a web3 release on Asher’s custom NFT marketplace.

Contact Info:

• Website: charm3d.io
• Instagram: @rhymetaylor
• Facebook: facebook.com/charmedlifemantra facebook.com/rhymetaylor
• Twitter: @rhymetaylor

Image Credits
Ethan Pickett Nita Ann Ty Johnson Sr.