Today we’d like to introduce you to August Worley
Hi August, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Hello,my name is August Worley, aka AúDìLèTó.
I’m a 29 year old positive conscious rapper living in Austin Texas.
I’m adopted, and grew up homeless for the first part of my life. I used to live on the beach in a tent and different hotel rooms and trailers with different people I didnt know. For the most part I was with my mom and occasionally on and off my dad was in the picture as well. My mom didn’t like my dad but my dad was the only one who worked so whenever we wouldn’t be around him it would be a lot harder. Even still my father was an alcoholic for as long as I could remember and they had a very abusive relationship so I can’t really tell you which part was worse. I got taken away from my mom at 9 and lived with my adopted parents until I was about 18 afterwhich experiencing difficulty with my living situations.
My whole life until I was about 24 years old I suffered with anxiety, depression, PTSD and living most my life in fight or flight. I dealt with abandonment issues and trust Issues due to the people and situations that have encountered over my life. I’ve always been a very giving person and so many times people took my kindness for weakness. I’ve been set up and robbed at gun point,lied to and cheating on. Throughout my younger years I experienced psychological,mental and emotional bullying. I recently found out that I’m autistic, I didn’t realize it until I was about 24 and now I’m seeing that that’s kind of what affected me in my life the way that it did for me to be the way I am in social situations and not necessarily understand certain things as quickly or easily as others. I’m definitely a perfectionist though, so once I do get something I feel like I master it much better than anyone else ever could it just takes me a little bit longer at first which has been a struggle for me and everything in life. I didn’t go to school until I was about 10 years old and went directly into second grade. Being a little older and never having that experience around other children really put me behind on top of the neglect that I faced in my life before. I feel like up until that point even though the things that were going on in my life were horrible I was very unaware and I just felt like that was normal I probably wasn’t okay but just didn’t realize it. But around that time was one reality hit me. I had ADHD as well growing up so I was always all over the place and unfortunately got medicated for that,depression and anxiety until I was about 16 years old. I genuinely believed that the medications I was taking weren’t actually helping me get better but making me worse, making me a zombie,making me more sad,more depressed. At many points throughout my life due to the medication I took I became suicidal wanting to rather end my life than feel the way I felt. I feel like to a certain extent the medications ruined my life and took away a lot of my creativity but once I got off I realized that was when I first started the healing process in my life. The reason I go into such great detail about my life and what got me to the point where I’m at now is because without those experiences I wouldn’t have the perspective or viewpoint that I have now. I feel like I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum and genuinely connect to people from all angles and all places of this world. I feel like you can’t understand true happiness until you felt true pain being this life is a pendulum. With that being said around 15 16 years old I started becoming addicted to pain pills and sleeping pills thinking in my mind that maybe that would make my pain go away. There is many times where I was drinking and taking opioids and benzodiazepines and could have died but I genuinely believe God has a purpose for me on this earth, to be able to speak on my pain in my experience to help others that are going through the same thing. Someone that they can relate too so they know that they’re not alone that they’re not the only one. When I was about 14 years old that’s whenever I started first journaling and kind of writing my feelings down it really helped me cope with everything that was going on in my life and understand and process some of the trauma that I had. At one point when I was about 15 or 16 it became more like poetry slam and eventually more like lyrics. Then one day when I was about 17 I just woke up and realized that this is what I was going to do for the rest of my life no matter what, that I was going to become the most influential rapper of all time and make a positive change in the world with my lyrics and help people, that was my greatest niche,my greatest gift to the world!! Ever since then I’ve been working tirelessly and endlessly towards achieving my goal, whether it be working dead end jobs,sometimes up to 70, 80 hours a week and still working on music. Or spending thousands of hours working on my craft whether it be writing,producing, mixing, mastering and learning trying to be the best version of myself I could be. I got into meditation, pranayama breath work, grounding,working out,gratitude,mindfulness and positive affirmations. Anything and everything that I could to get me out of the place I was at in my life. Eventually God answered my prayers and led me out of my depression and showed me true happiness for the first time in my life. The thing it taught me the most was there’s still ups and downs in life and not everything is always good and not everything is always bad, but kind of how to handle it better. I still feel like I struggle constantly with so many things in my life whether it be having enough money or for finding time to work on my craft,working full-time, but it’s something that I’m so passionate about and I realize it’s not just for me anymore. It’s for the betterment of this world that I have to keep going no matter what. Me and my girlfriend currently are working on both of our first albums, she sings and raps as well,she goes by KiLL8iLL and her story is very similar to mine as well. We both have music on all streaming platforms and hope you check us out the support really helps and allows us to get closer to our goal every day. I really hope my story inspires somebody out there to know that the matter what you’re going through, or whatever
you feel like is stopping you that you could do anything you put your mind to as long as you believe in yourself,and continuously push through!! The only time you actually fail is when you quit,the rest is just learning experiences to see what to do different or better next time
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Definitely not. I feel like in order to be successful and do anything great in this life you have to go through pain in some way or fashion. Some people deal with drug addiction,some people deal with loss some people deal with abuse. Some people deal with being overly critical of themselves or bullying or any number of other things. But everyone deals with something,no matter who you are in this world,nobody’s perfect and we all have our own struggles. I think the difference is is how we handle them that either makes us or breaks us, makes us someone that’s a great role model in this world and someone who’s a positive influence for others or someone who allows what they’ve gone through to ruin their life and then blame it on others. I feel like I’m a prime example of that because I can’t think of anything I haven’t gone through. I know that there’s people in this world who had it way way worse than I could ever imagine and people who had it way better, but it’s not about the comparison that’s just how I see it through my eyes, but I definitely feel like for what it’s worth the pain that I’ve experienced in my life, the struggles,the trials and tribulations have shaped me into very well-rounded person who has a different perspective on this world. From being homeless to not having enough food to being treated different, I feel like it really can either break you and mess your mind up and make you a bad person if you choose to allow it or it makes you into a warrior and that’s what I believe happened to me. I just always chose to keep pushing through and be the better person, because I want to be the change I want to see in this world!!
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
So I’m a rapper,a lyricist, a producer and audio engineer. I’m also an abstract artist. I do a lot of multimedia. I was actually into art before I got into music so now whenever I tell people that I’m a musician,I tell them I’m an abstract musician because I blend so many different genres together and I do a lot of experimental styles.I’m always trying to do something that’s different that’s never been done before to really make a true piece of art. Not just auditorially but visually,emotionally and spiritually. I want to hit every aspect of what I believe art is which is The Human Experience to me. I’m super inspired by Rick Rubin as well. I think the fact that he’s worked with so many different genres of music and kind of artist’s and went against the grain the whole way was amazing! I also love how he’s very spiritually in tuned and connects with an artist more. I think that’s definitely something that I want to be able to do in my own way of course. I also look forward to branching out in different genres of music as well. I would love to do electronic music and DJ. I would love to do jazz music maybe country music. I really want to start my own rock band in the future as well. I love collaborating with all sorts of different types of artists and coming up with the most amazing pieces of work. I would love to start my own fashion brand one day as well. I also enjoy cooking so I think it would be really cool to have some sort of cafe or bakery or restaurant that unable to incorporate some of my outlandish ideas into food and make really unique amazing one-of-a-kind dishes. I feel like I’m extremely motivational and I love bringing that into people especially when they need it the most. I love speaking to children and people who might have gone through something similar to me that I might be able to give life changing advice to, I definitely feel like I’m someone that they could feel safe around and connect to and understand that I genuinely understand what they’re going through I’m not just trying to be a therapist or an adult per se. I would love to be able to travel and do seminars and motivational speeches in schools and universities and just different places around the world. I feel like that’s what sets me apart from any other artist. I really am pushing the boundaries of what art can be and I look forward to seeing what I’m able to accomplish in my career.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
I feel like growing up I was always the type of person who wanted to connect with people but didn’t necessarily always know how. I didn’t really enjoy being by myself at first because for most of my life growing up I was by myself so I really craved being around people not just because I wanted attention which I believe that was part of it,but I genuinely enjoy connecting with people I love having conversations with people and learning their story. I was very active growing up I played football, I played baseball. I did track and cross country. I did Brazilian jiu-jitsu for a while and Taekwondo. I still consider myself very healthy. I try to take care of my body, my mind and soul I love to get outdoors, go to parks different trails and I enjoy communing with nature. I feel like I’ve always been a very creative person someone who tinkered with stuff and tried to figure out how things worked. I liked electronics a lot as well growing up something about it just fascinated me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/AuDiLeTo
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audileto?igsh=amdzcjVpdmticW1n
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1A7bcXHQ9Q/
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@audileto?si=XSylqfE25R8iDlPj
- Other: https://linktr.ee/AuDiLeTo?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71c87e05-3780-4142-8c26-3fba9f5058de
Image Credits
August Worley, I took these photos.
