Paul A. Rodriguez

I really can't put no label on my style or even say that I mimick anyone else's. Overall, it's all of the internal conflict that goes on within my own heart. The corrupt lifestyle that I've lived for so long. The pain, suffering, drama, and madness of my childhood and current environment are the main key ingredient's that impell me to create my best pieces. One of my favorite quotes is by the late Martin Luther King. He said that: " Only in darkness can you see the stars..." which makes perfect sense to me. All my life I've done my best work in the midst of my Madness...Balls out MADNESS!!! If you've ever read the book of Genesis, chapter 1, the very first 3 words God spoke were: " Let there be...", and where was He at when He spoke the most powerful 3 words known to man? (in the midst of PURE darkness...) what I like to call the Parable of 180.........PRBL is abbreviation for (Parable). And in my perspective, Life comes in parables. Short allegorical stories designed to teach some truth or lesson. I've done my research on the most highly successful people to ever walk this planet and they all have something specific in common; they all went through very turbulent trials before they became successful. Life tried them to see if they were worthy of they're calling. Before they "arrived", they had to be put to the test...Most people 360, you know, go back to square one. Or They give up...but the parable of 180 is to solve the riddle of your life. Take those riddles and create your own success...and when you do, you'll never look back(180)....to turn things around and never go back to what you used to do...For people like us, we'll never go back to prison...we'll never go back to the streets... Gang banging and Drug slanging are the Parables of our past.