Quantel (Pastor/Artist)

Growing up fast in a single parent home due to his Dad going back and forth to prison, the drug and gang culture the rappers would rap about soon became what Quantel would describe as the soundtracks to his childhood. Using and selling drugs at the age of fourteen felt more like joining the family business instead of making one of the biggest mistakes of his life. From boot camps to reform schools, going in and out of Juvenile Detention Centers, spending his 20th and 21st birthday incarcerated with his Father, having encounter after encounter with other rivals, and watching a childhood friend get murdered due to senseless gun violence, Quantel would soon find himself on the verge of suicide. He felt like if this is all this life has to offer then he didn't want to live anymore. He began to think and ask himself why or how did he get so infatuated with drugs, gangs, and the street culture. And it hit him like never before. That lifestyle was always being glorified and celebrated throughout his entire childhood and most of his adult life. So on December 31st 2011/2012, Quantel surrendered his life to Christ and soon began making Hip-hop that people, especially kids, could listen to without damaging their spiritual and physical lives.For four years Quantel toured as an artist and as an evangelist preaching the gospel through sermons and songs, He frequently tells people that he’s “A nobody who came to tell somebody about a Man who died for everybody”.