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WYT MIC, known formally as Jordan Michael Martavius is an Australian born rapper who rose to power in mid 2019 through a series of visually stunning music videos aimed at restoring the “rap industry” to its roots while simultaneously infusing modern modalities. WYT MIC has been noted for his rich lyrical presence that is highlighted by his ability to include several metaphors packaged within individual “bars”, or “lines” of each of his songs. Additionally, WYT MIC has been praised for his melodic beat selection to which he is quoted as saying, “my beat selection process involves many long nights and long blunts where I will lock myself in my car and vibe different beats over and over again until one grips my ears, my mind, and my heart.”

Born to the streets of a suburban coastal Australian city in what is believed to be the early 90’s, Jordan was orphaned before he could walk or talk. Jordan was left on the beaches of Lennox Head, N.S.W. sometime in the late hours of the night and was found crawling along the edge of the tide by an elderly tourist couple and handed off to a local nipper(life-guard). As legend serves, Mr. Martavius is said to be the prodigal son of two tiger sharks as the beach and surrounding waters on which he was found is factually noted as the most deadly in all of Australia. Subsequently, Jordan was placed in a, “rotating propeller” of orphanages. He was given the name Martavius in short for “Martiat”, which is a local term for shark. He recalls his first memories as watching Michael Jordan play basketball and was even given the nickname “Jordy Mike” because of an oversized basketball jersey that he hand picked out of a donation box as a toddler and wore as his only shirt day in and day out until he outgrew it years later. When asked about his younger years he said, “they would move me from place to place so often because they needed beds for the younger mates or I was mutineering the kids against the adults or eating too many sammies for nosh that I developed a rebellious attitude from as early as I can remember.” At the ripe age of 13, Mr. Martavius recalls being forced to move handfuls of rocks from one side of the orphanage to the other for days on end instead of taking a trip to the beach because he had been storing sandwich components in a makeshift “refrigerator” that he had made out of stacking individual 5 gallon buckets in his closet and filling them 3/4 full of ice to keep the ingredients fresh. Jordan mentions that he walked right out the front gate and then walked the 5 or so miles to the nearest servo(gas station)and frog leaped his way down the coast to his favourite beach. Jordan spent the next 5 years of his life living on the beach. “The ocean carries energy from every corner of the world. Humans flock to every beach in the world because of that energy. You don’t need shoes on a beach. You don’t need a shower by the ocean, and you never meet an angry or sad person on a beach. I had cleaner teeth than any of the wealthy people on that beach because I brushed my teeth three times a day in the beautiful salt water.” Jordan began working at a high end car wash and moved on to working jobs at a tire company, running overnight security, and working at gyms. He credits his expansive vocabulary to the hundreds of books that he was gifted from beach goers and says his education came from that of thousands of intellectual conversations with people from every walk of life all over the world. His “homework” was done analyzing, researching, and reading scholarly articles that he was able to download on an iPad. He states that he would walk a few miles to the University or college of his choosing and sit in on whatever class he chose on a specific day or week even as early as a 14 year old kid. “I skipped high school and went straight to college(laughing). Education is nothing but a fence with which to keep cows in. Knowledge is what a brumby(wild horse) has instilled within it through never being put into categories and what it learns along the path of life. Good or bad.” Before his 19th birthday, Mr. Martavius travelled to the United States after meeting a group of young Americans who he had taken under his wing while they were on vacation. “They became my new family, and The United States became my new home. I had met so many Americans in my life that it seemed to me like I knew more about their country and what was going on in their culture than some of the people that I interacted with everyday.” Mr. Martavius formally adopted the Americanized named Jordan Michael Martavius our of respect for his origins and nickname as a young Bucky in Australia. He spent the next 7 years living in California, New York, Atlanta, and even Texas. “Looking back, I feel like I was meant to venture into the music industry in some way shape or form because of the differing cultures I was surrounded by. I had black friends of every ethnicity and I was a blank canvas.”

Jordan credits his entrance into the rap game as a combination of meeting A$AP ROCKY walking through the airport in Houston and hearing of Mac Miller’s death a few months later. “I flew into Houston late on night and I’m walking through the other side of security and I saw A$AP with two of his body guards and a versace briefcase. I walked straight up to him and dapped him up like I had known him my whole life. I think I threw all of them for a loop they were probably like who the F*#&! Is this white boy? But he was the coolest dude I’ve ever met and he talked to me for a couple minutes or so. Ask him about that sometime(laughing). But as for Mac Miller’s passing that really sparked me further into making music. I personally felt as if I had to pick up where he left off. Don’t get me wrong I’m in no way comparing myself or even my style to his but what he stood for in the culture and the level of uniqueness and innovation he brought was so great that it inspired me to follow a similar path.”