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Eleven-year-old Roque Spaan-Murray is an aspiring rapper here in Moose Jaw with big dreams of making it in the music industry some day. He has just recently released 100 copies of his very own CD; the album is called Hoop Dreams.
Roque’s favourite rapper is Eminem, and he’d love nothing more than to walk in Slim Shady’s shoes.
“It would be awesome to make a full career of rapping,” Roque told the Express. He decided on his rap name by using the family nickname for his little sister, whom they call Poomba.
‘Lil Poomba’ has turned out about 30 songs so far. The album Hoop Dreams has 15 of his favourites.
Roque was inspired by an app called Groovepad which makes it easy to produce beats. His dad encouraged him to start rapping over the songs he was making. Roque said that once he did, he “started to get better and better.”
“My style of rap is more…fast and short lines,” he continued, “I think of it as my style of rap, because every rapper has a style.”
He writes his lyrics by thinking of events in his life. If he gets stuck, he says, he’ll read the back of a book or something similar until the words start flowing again.
Roque’s family members are very supportive of his rapping. His dad helps him shoot and edit his music videos, of which he has several, featured on his YouTube channel.
He describes his music as positive, and confirms his album has no swearing in it because of his age. Hoop Dreams is available at Vintage Vinyl, John’s Music, and Comic Book Guy Pop Culture Shop.
