BC News|June 25, 2014 12:15 EDT
Tedashii Opens Up About the 'Dark Days' He was Living Through After Losing His Son, 'I Felt Forsaken, Alone, and in a Place of Darkness'
Christian rapper Tedashii recently opened up about his new track "Dark Days, Darker Nights" in an interview with New Release Tuesday, he shared a bit about the tragedy of losing his son a year ago, and where his head was when creating the song.
"This song depicts the early on goings of my emotional state and my mental state when it came to the loss of my son which was the worst day of my life. The loss of my son changed me forever. I experienced grief and sorrow to the depth of my soul. The veil was lifted, the smoke cleared and all I had was pain," said Tedashii.
He continued, "The comfort of life with no pain was gone and I saw the world in an entirely new way. I felt forsaken, alone, and in a place of darkness that has been kept masked by a focus on only the good side of this life. The reality of being a Christian and suffering so harsh a thing was hard for me to grasp."
He explained that the song is his way of airing out his feelings concerning the ordeal, and is serving as a way for him to heal.
"The song is about the different ways with which I tried to cope and exist within this unwanted new normal. It really was a song I wrote around the time everything happened and was my plea and vent to the Lord in a way of me trying to make sense of everything," he said.
The song is from his May 27 release Below Paradise on Reach Records. Below Paradise was written like a diary and provides an authentic look on life through suffering, deep and true joy, and the false expectations people carry.
"I kinda ran with the album the way I did topically because I was just convinced that this will work together for the good to those that love him," he told BreatheCast in an interview last month.
Tedashii admitted that when tragedy struck initially, the thought of things working out for him were inconceivable. Now, after some time and writing his new record, his attitude has since changed.
"Maybe I'm gonna love my older son in a way I never have before because of losing the younger one, but I don't know what that looks like," the rapper said.
Tedashii has sold more than 120,000 albums to date, and garnered over eight million cumulative views on YouTube. His last release Blacklight debuted at No. 2 on the iTunes Hip-Hop chart and No. 8 on the iTunes overall album chart. The talented rapper is also a radio host of the hip-hop show called "Serium", powered by NGEN Radio, on Saturday nights at 8pm Central time.