Meet Tribe Mafia, Celebrity Questionnaire

1. What’s your name?

Chinasa Broxton born Chinasa Broxton Okorocha Dashawn Daniels, Born as Carlos Daniel Dashawn Moore

2. Where are you originally from?

Chinasa Broxton: Austin, Texas

Dashawn Daniels : Originally born in Oklahoma City, but was raised in Dallas and Austin, Texas.

3. Where do you currently live?

Both: We currently live in the city of Austin, Texas. However, we constantly commute to other nearby cities for work such as, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and occasionally travel out to Long Island, New York and Miami, Florida. So we considered those other cities listed as our home too.
4. How did you get into music? How long have you been doing it?

Chinasa Broxton: I started off doing musical theatre in middle school (Annie Jr.,) I had a crush on my teacher, Ms.Barnett. Anything that she requested from me was considered done. I would automatically say yes to anything Ms.Barnett would ask.

I was a troublemaker in her social studies. To seek attention from her, I would beatbox on the table, sing acapella tunes from Joe, Anthony Hamilton, Jodeci and Boys 2 Men. I remember her asking me to try out for a play, because I had a great voice.

I was casted as one of the leads, “Mr. Warbucks.” After middle school I got into doing more extracurricular activities such as talent shows and more works of theatre. Which is about the time I ran into Carlos “Dashawn Daniels,” Carlos Moore was one of the most popular kids in Pflugerville High school. We met playing basketball in our neighborhood park. As I can recollect I, we played a couple pick-up games, and I won them all, because of my height advantage over him.

I stand at 6’ft 5in tall and compared to Carlos. Carlos is 5ft’ 5in. As we were walking back home, we noticed that we were walking to the same neighborhood. Carlos stayed 4 houses away from me.

As we grew closer as friends I noticed we shared some of the same interests and goals, such as being a musical artist. We ended up forming a Hip Hop Music Group compiled of about 9 artists.

We started off recording on our cell phones in restrooms to create a better sounding EQ and reverb.
As the years went by we’ve learned more about how we wanted to identify ourselves as a team. We also lost members due to commitment and distance. We went from 9 members to 2 members. After losing every member we learned how to adjust and rebrand accordingly.

Dashawn Daniels: I was introduced into music at an early stage in my household, my other family members such as my dad and my cousins on my mom’s side always used to video record me on video trying to sing or rap to old school songs as a kid before I was in elementary. So when we moved from Oklahoma to Dallas and then a final stop to Austin. In middle school I would always draw or make up my own quotes and write them in one of my notebooks all the time and always would like to create a quote that would rhyme.

So as I kept doing this and got to high school, a kid in one of my classes looked over at my desk while I got up to go to the bathroom and he had my notebook on his desk when I came back, but had a very amazed look on his face and asked me...hey are these lyrics? I said no, so give me my stuff back. It's just my made up quotes that randomly write all of the time. So he said, “you know you got bars, especially the way you put good metaphors in your quotes.”

Basically informed me that what I was creating were pretty much called lyrics and suggested that I try applying those lyrics on instrumentals because I could be a natural. Doing so, I started practicing a flow from a

lot of artists I’ve listened to early on for my age at the time. I transferred from Pflugerville high school to McNeil high school and I was very well known. I met Chinasa “Broxton” at the park playing basketball. I do not remember him beating me at all. My mom was a basketball and track coach at Mc’neil high school. I had no choice but to hoop. I was born into those 2 sports my height didn’t mean nothing to me, because I let skill speak for itself. Chinasa and I lived in the same neighborhood and we added each other on social media and found out that we had the same interest in making music, so ever since then we decided to make it all happen with the same dream, on the same team, with the same vision and we have been completing goals to make that happen.

5. Were you doing something else before music? What made you make that transition?

Dashawn Daniels: Before music I was just drawing. Every now and then I still doodle around. Because sports such as basketball and track were highly influenced in my life I was very much involved in those activities prior to music. But music has and will always play a part of my life at the same time, so there wasn’t really a transition.

6. How would you describe your sound? Do you draw inspiration from any other artists?

Chinasa Broxton: I would like to say that my sound is a mix of having “the hood and melodies comprised into one,” in my opinion. I draw inspiration from so many artists, my top 5 list would have to be

1.) Micheal Jackson, because of his unique styles on how he dressed his hair, the way he performs and his character.

2.) Lil Wayne, because of his metaphors, and his versatility.

3.) Anthony Hamilton, recording and on stage you hear the same compassion, and I envy that from him.

4.) Chance The Rapper, because he is his true self, he has his own social works office to help kids stay off the street which i think is incredible. With my social work background, his work validates my passion for wanting to pursue music and still help others in that same field. 5.) Chris Brown, because

of his ability to still have an amazing career aside from all the troubles he had to overcome.

Dashawn Daniels: I would like to describe my sound as flowetry with my rhymes with the meaning of my lyrics kicking game as giving advice from my own experiences and telling a mini story of what usually happens in my life or your life is it’s relatable. I get inspired by too many artist because of their different styles no matter who it is like Micheal Jackson, Tupac, Nas, Drake, Lil Wayne, Biggie, J. Cole, Ludacris, Chris Brown a bunch of early on rappers and R&B singers in different eras.

7. What genre of music do you consider yourself?
Primary Genre: Hip Hop - Rap
Secondary Genre: Pop - R&B

8. Who is your music for? Who is your audience?
Answer: Tribe Mafia makes music for everyone, from grade school to college. We try to reach every demographic as possible to raise awareness of our name.

9. How did you come up with the name Tribe Mafia?

Answer: The name Tribe Mafia was created after going through several poor choiced names. We wanted something that would describe our culture, our music and our image. Tribe Mafia for us simply means Family and Business. We are all about providing for our families and being about our business.

Carlos Moore ``Dashawn Daniels' ' is Akimel O'odham/Pima and enrolled with the federally recognized tribe Gila River Indian community of Arizona. Chinasa Broxton Okorocha Is Half Cuban and Half Nigerian, from the Okorocha Tribe in Igbo State, Nigeria. We wanted our name to have cultural meaning to it as well as a hardcore punch to it, which is where the “Mafia” part comes in. Basically saying if people are also as family oriented as we are, they know if you mess

with one of the family members, then you’re messing with all of the family members, it's a mafia thing, a tribe ting’.
10. What are your biggest challenges as an artist so far?
Answer: Our biggest challenge so far is just overcoming the scandals that come with being an independent artist. We’ve lost over $20,000 due to the scammers around the world selling hopes to ambitious artists like ourselves with wishful dreams. At the time it seemed realistic, but looking back now we see how that narrative could’ve been prevented. Another we faced is getting booked for bigger events to showcase our talent.
11. You guys briefly described being homeless at one point. What happened and how has that made you grow not only as a person but as an artist?
Answer: Being homeless was hard, we really started to value every single dollar spent. We saw how this population was very supportive for shelter, gathering food, and resources for getting our hygiene needs taking care of.
Chinasa Broxton: After graduating with my degree in theatre from Sul Ross State University, in Alpine, Texas I tried to find work, but was unsuccessful. With all of the unpaid debts and college loans building up. We ended up living in our car. We kept praying and praying, and our situation kept progressively getting better. I got accepted to pursue my education at the University of North Texas, and Texas Woman's University for their masters program in social work. Got housing by the school. Our music also started picking up momentum around the same time of my acceptance to enroll in school. I wanted to help others who had problems with drug addiction, or for those who

are homeless and lack information on how to gain resources on how to change their situation.
Answer: As an artist this helped us grow to be more supportive and with open arms within our community, because we know what it is like to come up off of nothing. We’ve held several events during the season to donate to charitable organizations.

12. What are some of your biggest accomplishments as artists?
Answer:
2014: Creating our own Logo,
2015: Booking our very first gig, at an unofficial SXSW showcase and opening for a well-known artist Lil Flip
Making a profit from our own merchandise.
3/16//2018 Tribe Mafia Wins 1st place for Coast 2 Coast live in Austin Texas
1/12/2019 Tribe Mafia Signs a distribution deal with Sony, The Orchard on the behalf of Indie Nation Building our own website
Getting Verified on Instagram
Reaching close to 1 million streams to our new dancehall song “Like Cola”
Winning the the independent artist of the year award on live television on Magic Video Tv. Having our song “Still The Same” as a soundtrack on Chingy’s upcoming Netflix Series
March 2019 SXSW’19 unofficial showcase tour with Indie Nation
October 2019: Touring internationally with the Rap/Pop legend Akon, in Sao, Paolo Brazil
Working with Donnie Klang, CEO of loft sound Studio, also known for P Diddy’s MTV’s show Making The Band 4.

Shooting new music videos every month with our local photographerDaniel Castillo, also known as Dan2thel on instagram.
Getting interviewed Sirius XM Radio, Shade 45 With DJ Love Dinero and Coach Pr on the Weekend Work.
Getting Interviewed on 50cents Radio Show by DJ Thoro on This Is 50.

Curating our own event, named “The Tribe Mafia Listening” having over 450 supporters fill the house chanting our songs.
Giving back the community with our christmas event: GMI Music Soul Therapy hosted by Tribe Mafia, donating over $2000 to the Austin ARCH.
2020: Being Announced on SXSW 2020 OFFICIAL LINE UP
- Adding BMP to our team
- We are video game characters in the new video game “H-Town Fight Minnies”
Available on playstation 4, Xbox, Nintendo, and Apple App Store, and Google
Play.

13. What charities do you support?
Arch - Austin Resource Center for the Homeless
Communities in School - Dallas Fort Worth area

14. Briefly describe your music making process.

15. What music do you have coming out and when? The new projects that we have coming
out first in March is our LP called “Teepee Gang” a mixture of hip hop, trap, underground and mainstream tracks. Then the second project that we are releasing in the start of summer is called “It’s a Tribe Ting’ '' showcasing our Dancehall and afrolatin roots.
16. Who are your three favorite artists? Why?

Chinasa Broxton: Lil Wayne, because of his many contributions to the music that he has done. Even till this day, he has paved away for so many artists careers. I could probably rap a wayne song to you verbatim if you asked.
J Cole because of his versatility to stay relevant after years after his debut appearance in the media.
Micheal Jackson, because of his challenging upbringing and how entertaining he is when he would perform. Micheal’s spirit lives in me and will always be a part of my life. Choosing three of my favorite artists is very difficult but these three artists listed are just 3 of many hundreds who have inspired my style in apparel, music and attitude. Dashawn Daniels: I don’t really have a specific favorite artist’s, because the artists I listened to are too good in their own lane. But that doesn’t mean that they are the best to me or better than other artists. But 3 of them for me would be Micheal Jackson, Tupac Shakur and Drake. Because Micheal Jackson was the king or pop and as a 5 yr old that was the first singer I was introduced to and tried to be like whole singing his songs and then grew up to know his background story and he still set his music apart from everyone and every video looked like a movie and was pretty much a neon legend even though his father was the one that had that dream for his kids to be the best. Tupac because of his realism of storytelling through his lyrics and what he stood for in change for the world, his philosophy outside of music and his background of his mother being a black panther, which he also became a legend too. Last but not least Drake, because of his intellectual lyricism and versatility. I love how Drake’s music is interchangeable, it keeps evolving. He is very good at being able to adapt in any era, coming up with his own style to take over any genre.