Someone I Would Be Afraid Of

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Akira the Don (real name Adam Narkiewicz) is a British musician, DJ, and producer. His music and production traverses the boundaries between pop, hip-hop, indie and dance. He lists influences including Ice Cube, Adam Ant, Morrissey, Big Bang, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and the Wu-Tang Clan. His debut album When We Were Young was produced in collaboration with Danny Saber (U2, Black Grape), James Brown (Nine Inch Nails, Ash) and Emile (50 Cent). In 2017, Akira the Don released mixtapes in the form of a new genre he created, referred to as "Meaningwave" – a fusion of wave music with meaningful lyrical content and lo-fi hip-hop. more »

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We're gonna go back to Boston

Okay

Okay so you said that's really where
Things started for you so
You moved there when you were
13 first of all
Like what kind of kid were you in school?

If ADD is real, I certainly had it
And I was very
Very interested in what I was interested in
I was very uninterested in people
Telling me what to do
Essentially couldn't wait to get
Out of school but I would excel at things
That I had interest in
Initially, it was art i wanted to
Be a comic book illustrator
Until I really got into martial arts
Then martial arts became the focus of my life
Around 14, 15 years old
That's when I really
Became massively obsessed
And it was really the first thing that I ever
Did where I really didn't feel like a loser
Like I really felt like, "Oh
I actually have some talent i actually
Can be exceptional" It's like something
Because you know I grew up constantly moving
Didn't really have a lot of
Friends, I would be new in this
Town, I'd get picked on, i wasn't a big kid
And there was a lot of
Issues with that psychologically
I didn't like being afraid of other
Kids i didn't like not
Knowing what to do if I ran into a kid
And they were gonna bully me and pick on me
You know
Martial arts changed that 180 degrees

And then I became someone
Who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was
And then I became someone
Who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was
So what I was, was someone
Who was terrified of conflict
Didn't know what to do
And what I became was a Taekwondo champion
I became a martial arts champion
I knew how to fight

How did it come about?

It was very fortunate i'd done a little bit
Of martial arts training
Then one day I was in Boston
For a Red Sox game
And as I was walking home
To the train station
I decided to go check out the
Jae Hun Kim Taekwondo Institute
It was right there
So I went up the stairs and as I was walking
Up the stairs a guy named
John Lee was training
I heard this crazy sound
What it turned out to be
This man kicking this
Bag and slamming his heel into this bag and
Having the chain snap and rattle and the thud
Of his heel slamming into this leather bag
I got up there and I watched this guy workout
I couldn't believe a person could do that
I'd never seen anybody kick something
So hard in real life
Anybody that had such incredible
Martial arts skill
Like this guy did, John Lee
Who became a mentor of mine
That changed everything
I was there the next day i talked to them
They gave me a brochure and a pamphlet
I was probably there every day of my
Life until I was 22 years old

Just completely by luck
Wandered into one of the best schools
In the world for taekwondo i just got lucky
I got really, really, really lucky

I became someone who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was
And then I became someone
Who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was

I had keys pretty quickly right away
My instructor recognized that I
Was pretty obsessed
And I was physically pretty talented
So he had me teaching
Classes instead of paying
One of the best ways for someone to get
Good at martial arts is actually to teach
It actually refines your technique
You think about it more i was 14 or 15
By the time I got to that school
I had my black belt by the time I was 17
And I was competing in the
Adult division by then
I won the state championship when I was 18
And I won it every year
From then until I stopped
Luckily with high school
Kids heard about it right away
One of the kids you go to school
With is flying all over the country
Kicking people in the head
They just avoided me
People avoided me, junior and senior year
I'd already become this weird kid that
Was obsessed with martial arts
I spent most of my life from
The time I was 15
Till I was 21 training and competing
I've probably fought over a hundred
Times, a 100% singular
Uniquely singular, but I avoided
Most of the pitfalls
High school partying and all that stuff
I didn't do that because I
Was scared of getting hurt
I was scared if I showed up for
Training hungover that I'd get beat up
I was scared of anything that
Would take even a tiny bit away from my
Performance as a fighter
'Cause I was obsessed with it

I became someone who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was
And then I became someone
Who I would be afraid of
You know, I became the opposite of what I was

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