Raised between Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama, Trav Da Poet was exposed to the gospel music traditions of African American Baptist and Pentecostal churches, including bombastic choirs and dynamic praise teams. Being an 80’s baby growing up during Hip-Hop’s golden age, acts such as LL Cool J, A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, 2pac, Nas, Notorious B.I.G., The Geto Boys, Saul Williams, and countless others helped shaped his affinity for rap music, poetry, and influence his eventual style.

These influences and his ever-growing desire to deliver his own message fueled his involvement in Hip-Hop. Since 2001, Trav Da Poet has been involved in spoken word and Hip-Hop putting together battles, poetry events, being a part of street teams, and working as a sound engineer for shows and on albums. He also performed at open mics up and down the East Coast, placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in various slam competitions, & placed in talent shows.

Trav Da Poet has released “Tomorrow’s Not Promised”, a harrowing single lamenting the fragility of life in June 2021. His second single, “Head To The Sky”, a testimony of encouragement in the face of despair, was released August 2021. His third single “Succeed”, which questions and delves into what is truly success, was released in September 2021. All of these singles are from his EP “Issues of Life Prelude” which was released in November 2021.

To kickoff the release of his debut LP, the single “Issues Of Life”, which describes the various issues of life & how to guard one’s heart, was released in July 2022. The 2nd single, “Chess Game”, a metaphor of life being a chess game & how to make wise choices to win, was released in September 2022. The final single for this album, “Wonderful Counselor”, is a worship song giving thanks to God for being there as a wonderful counselor in his (and others’ lives). These singles were to promote the full length LP in this series “Issues of Life, Vol. 1” which was released January 2023.

Trav Da Poet has also released a joint EP with Classix The Writer, a fast-rising ultra-talented emcee from Brooklyn, NY called “The Village”. This EP speaks to the concept of the village as the Black community, and addresses various issues plaguing the community, as well as how to heal it physically, mentally, economically, & spiritually.