MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Years of experience, including two years at the prestigious Juilliard School prepared the artist and songwriter Sxint Peter for a career in music, but it was raw emotion and feelings of betrayal that fired his passion in his latest single “Brooklyn Baby.”
“Brooklyn Baby was based on a true story,” Sxint Peter said. “It’s about my son’s mother, and we didn’t have a great relationship but I decided to make a song about it and just express what was true to me. I didn’t expect the feedback to be so great, but this is actually one of the first songs that I put real life into it. I’ve written songs that had real life in them but this is real, real like detailed and true to me.”
Sxint Peter, also known as Peter Rose, started writing poetry as a kid and became interested in music after listening to his brother in the next room playing DJ and blasting music throughout his home.
“I started writing poetry at a very young age,” he said. “I just fell in love with words period. Writing was actually my first passion but I’m hearing all these artists and different melodies coming from my brother’s room and I felt like I could do it to so I decided to go to a local studio to see how my voice sounded.”
And it’s not just hip hop that draws Sxint Peter’s ear.
“I also play the piano and my love for music is well-rounded,” he said. “I don’t just listen to hip hop music, I listen to classical music, pop, R&B, so if you hear a lot of my music, it has a lot of those influences in it. I’ve been influenced by the greats, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, my mom used to listen to Al Green so I've got some of that in me. I’ve got a little soul, so when you look at my EP when it comes out in a few months, it’s going to have a wide variety of inspiration from different genres of music, but sonically it’s going to sound super, super dope, and it’ll resonate in the industry. I’m just here to tell my story and that’s it.”
Sxint Peter said he learned to play the piano then applied to the Juilliard School one year and was rejected. But that just got him fired up.
“I decided to practice for a whole year straight and the following year I gave it a shot again,” he said. “I went back to Juilliard to audition in front of two people who recognized me from the previous year and they saw that I grew and I got in the school.
“I was excited about that after being declined the previous year, and that’s just a message in itself. No matter what you go through, you might fail the first time but get back up and do it again. That was an exciting time in my life where I felt like even if I fail I can still get through and make it in what I really want to do in life. It’s not always going to be yes, yes, yes. Sometimes you've got to hear no before you get to a yes.”
Sxint Peter said the single “Brooklyn Baby” is a teaser to the new EP he plans to release this spring called “It’s Always Somthin.’”
“The EP is going to be great,” he said. If you like that ‘Brooklyn Baby’ you’ll love the EP as a whole. I’m really big on sonically putting a masterpiece together. I kind of want to change the frequency and the sound of things. So when my EP drops, I feel like it will resonate and people will love it. I’m excited about that and it’s almost done so in about two months you’ll hear more about it.”
Sxint Peter said he hopes the message in “Brooklyn Baby” resonates with people going through the trials and blessings of co-parenting a child.
“I wanted to shine some light on things that are kind of unsaid,” he said. “There are a lot of fathers and men who are in relationships that didn’t work, and they had a child with their ex obviously even though they moved on. I just decided to talk about it and I feel like this is a topic that is kind of questionable and people don’t really talk about it.”
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