Episode 44: Just recently back from traveling alongside ‘Party Thieves’ creating video content for his tour in both Australia and India, Matty is living a life that he once dreamed of but never thought it would actually happen. He spent some of his childhood in Irving, Texas and then moved to Berryville, Virginia right outside of Washington, D.C. after his father was beginning to work at a hunting club. In the beginning of his freshmen year of high school, Matty was close to being homeless. His father had lost his job, struggled to find his place and eventually lost their house so Matty would leave and stay with his friends whenever he could. It wasn’t until his senior year when he won a national video contest and was handed an award by American actor and television host Mike Rowe with his friends that he realized maybe he was onto something. Once he graduated, he started working at CostCo and just after twelve months he decided to quit and put all of his time and energy into his passion wanting to see where it could take him. Just ten days later, he was offered an opportunity to tour Europe for the summer with Afrojack and was getting shuttled around from show to show in a private jet. The leap of faith had worked out. Along the way he started working with Boston hip-hop artist Sammy Adams and traveled most of the country documenting the entire journey and recently working with Party Thieves who he will be moving to Los Angeles with in the next few months. Through it all, Matty’s motivation has been to one day be able to give it all back to his father for always finding a way to put food on the table for both him and his five other siblings In this episode Matty discusses what it was like being the youngest of six children, being found by DJ Kap Slap’s manager from a video he had posted on Instagram shot from a cell phone, the lifestyle of living on a tour bus and waking up in a new city everyday, creating his own art and not trying to replicate others, being most grateful for his family and friends, weighing the experience and opportunity in front of him rather than the money he’ll make from it, every person having 100% complete control over their life and always expect the unexpected. — Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/2zprpon Follow us on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2hcSBws Subscribe to iTunes: http://apple.co/2yE0u9l Follow us on social media: Instagram: http://bit.ly/2j82AHF Follow Bobbbaaaay on social media: Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Ap24ce Twitter: http://bit.ly/2hj6Ljm