It recaps a wild childhood in West Africa where a narrow escape from the 1989 genocides in Kakata, Liberia separated his family for years to come. With a glimpse of hope to someday reunite abroad, he endured uncanny hardships. Now caught in a second civil war that knocked down the borders of Sierra Leone in the early 90’s, it spread through the provinces where he roamed aimlessly.

His initial reaction to culture shock brought new challenges as he toggled between school, adolescence, church and the streets. Freddy Will’s undying love for hip hop brought unavoidable persecutions and conflicts from guardians who squandered monthly staples sent by his parents for his care and that of his siblings.

Ultimately cast into the streets, he learned to hustle. He found solace in reggae playing ghetto slums where his involvement in music drew lifelong friendships that were nurtured in the most unexpected places, six countries to be exact. One day, his parents who were now living in New Jersey, USA made a radical intervention that spared him from the wrath of the latter vendettas of the genocidal civil war but not before he was exposed to guns, drugs and violence.

Freddy Will’s refugee experiences that started in Sierra Leone and continued throughout places like the tropical paradise of The Gambia and Dakar, Senegal, ended with a long awaited reunion in New Jersey where racism would mimic tribalism. Turning to the streets of New Jersey for answers taught him new lessons. Freddy Will wrote lyrics with a dream that seemed unattainable, until a chance encounter in Canada changed everything…

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