Ogden Payne has come a long way from rapping in a friend's garage after school for fun. The Austin, Texas native began taking rap seriously in 2010 at the age of 17 when he recorded a 5 song demo that he later distributed around his high school. In 2011, Ogden set out to craft his own sound and began recording his first mixtape, Late Night Thoughts. The debut release garnered local press and assisted in growing his buzz. Before he released his second mixtape, Late Night Thoughts Vol. 2: Fame & Misfortune, Ogden was determined to become a man before he became an artist; it would unknowingly take him two years to reach a point where he was able to let the hurts and anger of his past go. Throughout his journey, Ogden was trying to get a grip on what life is truly about. After a failed long-term relationship, he found himself hurt and lost at 20 years old. Music being far from his main focus, Ogden was looking to defer his attention off of himself and began to help others who were in...
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Ogden Payne has come a long way from rapping in a friend's garage after school for fun. The Austin, Texas native began taking rap seriously in 2010 at the age of 17 when he recorded a 5 song demo that he later distributed around his high school. In 2011, Ogden set out to craft his own sound and began recording his first mixtape, Late Night Thoughts. The debut release garnered local press and assisted in growing his buzz. Before he released his second mixtape, Late Night Thoughts Vol. 2: Fame & Misfortune, Ogden was determined to become a man before he became an artist; it would unknowingly take him two years to reach a point where he was able to let the hurts and anger of his past go. Throughout his journey, Ogden was trying to get a grip on what life is truly about. After a failed long-term relationship, he found himself hurt and lost at 20 years old. Music being far from his main focus, Ogden was looking to defer his attention off of himself and began to help others who were in dire need of life's essentials that he had taken for granted. Within a year, Ogden slowly put his life back together piece by piece and began to have a positive outlook on life that he never had before. But something was still missing. Realizing the impact that the positive words and relationships he had with people who had been in similar situations sparked something in Ogden. He began to want to stop a cycle of young adults suffering from a lack of direction. Ogden finally found the selfless calling he had been searching for in life. Fueled by pain and inspired by growth, Ogden finished Late Night Thoughts Vol. 2, with the help of his friends, Joel "Isaac Haze" Fentanes and Skip Downey. Fame & Misfortune documents a story of one young man's adversities with the hope of helping another struggling young adult grow beyond their hardships. Wisdom, growth, and sacrifice are just a few of the values that inspire Ogden Payne. With the help of producer, Isaac Haze, the two have tasked themselves to create Better You Than Me; a sound that embodies laughable past mistakes, while balancing the pressures and fears of the unknown future.