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Lew is a upcoming artist/producer coming out of Oakland,
CA. He has his debut project "Practice in the Mirror" coming
out soon, and is soon to release his Anthony Jacob directed
visual "These Days".

BM: How did you get your stage name Lew? Lew: How I got my stage name "LEW" is pretty simple. My
middle name is Louis, so I just wanted to keep it simple and use that. More and more people are starting to
call me "WherelsLew" (which is my beat tag)... So who knows, maybe that will become a thing at some point.
ABM: What got you started in the music business? Lew: What got me started in the music business was my

cousin Elzie, One day I scen him making beats on his laptop in my living room, so I had him put the software onto my

computer. Ever since then I've been in love with it. ABM: What age did you start making instrumentals? Lew: I started
making beats in the summer before my 8th grade year, so I was about 13 when I first started with the whole music thing,

Before then, I was a drummer in a band so I've always had a really good understanding of how music worked. ABM:

How did your debut single "These Days", come about? Lew: "These Days" was actually one of the first songs I ever

began recording, I was sitting on it for a couple months because I wasn't really sure how I felt about it. I knew that I

really loved the beat, but I didn't know how to approach it as a rapper/singer. I remember one morning I was just sitting

down and listening to a whole bunch of heavy-hitting hardcore rap songs and I really wanted to make a song like that. It
will be on iTunes very soon, and the video for it is dropping this month. ABM: What is the name of your upcoming
debut project? Anything exciting you wanna tell us about it? Lew: I have an eight song project dropping in the first
quarter of 2017, It's titled "Practice In The Mirror." It's basically just a compilation of my current work that I really
want to get out so people can finally hear my sound and see who I am as an artist. The entire mixtape is produced and
recorded by myself--which I'm really proud of--It's my first every project so I'm excited to see how people react to it.

Also, like I previously stated, the video for "These Days" is dropping this month and the entire mixtape will be on

iTunes and Apple Music! ABM: Where can people find you? Lew: You can find me on all social media outlets. On Insta-

gram/Twitter @WherelsLew - Snapchat @PadreLew and lastly on Soundcloud I am WHEREISLEW.

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