Projects
The Adventure Begins
Greetings my name is Walter Duke aka Wawduh splash. I am the oldest of seven sons Born in Birmingham Alabama March 17 1979. I was raised by a devout Christian mother but, I had a funky cursing dad. The seven of us grew up in an abrasive Urban environment that we moved around in a lot. We lived in a new house every year during the 80s. The level of poverty that we've experienced would include trials such as being without lights water or gas. There were dark Christmases and giftless birthdays and, food less and nights. I also it was a very sickly child stricken with asthma, severe eczema, and severe allergies. Our household consisted of a balance of Church and a ringside seat to my father's drug addiction. Watching us lose things that we found necessary in our lives to a drug addiction. And when I wasn't at home experiencing the violence learning use of colorful profanity I suffered at the hands of Bully's during my stint at Elyton elementary school I took it upon myself to make sure that immediate needs were met. As I Grew Older into my teenage years watching the drug dealers and following my father I discover the only way to keep the money into the house was to make sure he had the drugs he needed so I became a distributor of crack cocaine. I also to stay sane I indulge in personal writings of poetry and songs. These writing soon became songs that apart of my performing act before I knew it I had become a rap artist. Even though it was the norm to become a rap artist when dealing with the drug trade. My artistry didn't contain much of my environment. I myself chose to not add my day-to-day living into to the content of my music. But rather I use my music as a form of escapism so I often found myself projecting myself into imaginary places or other people's lives with in my music. I myself was ashamed of dealing drugs to my father. So also doing my early twenties As I Grew as a drug dealer I also develop mental health issues such as depression, and bipolar disorder in addition to my asthma which was becoming more underlined. After a 9 weeks stay in a mental health facility for an emotional breakdown after a break up. I continue to write music. I recorded my first demo in the year 2000. I continue to master the craft of writing rap music and performing in front of crowds that grew bigger and bigger after some pitfalls in my performing my confidence grew I recorded more perform more releasing mixtapes that I lived off of personally selling them on the streets for $5 each. I eventually met whom now is my ex-wife and mother of my first child in 2002. We soon we're living together but the relationship was tumultuous and reminiscent of violent outbursts witnessed my childhood. I found myself leaving Birmingham, Alabama to pursue my music career in Atlanta so I dropped everything here including the relationship with my future ex-wife to pursue music so I live there in the streets and recording until I made enough money to get my own apartment and my own car and then she follow me to Atlanta and moved in with me . We got married and life seem like it would be happily ever after. But getting married didn't change our behaviors toward one another. Our marriage plagued with the same violent Outburst toward one another that we had as a young dating couple until my father was burned alive in a house fire just a few blocks away from my parents house.. The energy of his passing ironically spawn the energy used to create my daughter jaionna. Once she was born the gravity of the violence around me living in urban Atlanta along with the loss of my father in the knees of my immediate family back home. I decided to come home along with my family to give Aid to my mother and younger brother. My younger brother had fallen to acute schizophrenia and was in desperate need of medical attention and my mother had a very hard time getting him into the hospital. So when I arrived I had to get my brother to the hospital in order to seek the proper physician to have him under. So now I was back home in Birmingham Alabama with a wife a newborn and a step-son taken care of an brothers and my mother. During all of this I still managed to release my first album The Pamper Money album volume one. This independent release was my sole source of income until I became77 employed at Aramark Uniform services I was well on my way to Independent success despite all of the obstanocles I had to overcome. Then came 2011 I bought two handguns ill advised an unlicensed from a pawn shop This resulted in me receiving weapons charge. Just landed me on probation and,was the beginning of a decline of my quality of life. I will assume played by unemployment due to the court system. I lost a lot of money to pay my probation I lost a job. And the constant drug testing and scrutiny came unbearable and I lost Focus and begin to fail drug test. These probation violations landed me in numerous stents in the city jail with more time to write but only on the inside. I vowed that once my freedom was obtained I would make better decisions when it came to my life and maintain my freedom. And try my best to take better care of my family. Now during my stay in the city my cell phone was in the hands of my now ex-wife. All of my infidelities were exposed through the messaging between other women found in my phone while it was in her possession while I was incarcerated. All of this led to the decline of our marriage her alleged infidelity while I was inside infidelity empowered her to disconnect from us as in Union so by the time I was out in free. I continued on being promiscuous with my extramarital affairs which led to a confession of one that's part of the love child that was destroyed by an abortion. Although she forgave me two years later this led to our separation and final divorce. Now in exile for my family modestly working but with no home no home and dealing with turbulent love affairs I struggle to get back everything I had lost. Now I stand on the upswing of that position so I'm divorce and homeless I still maintain a source of income that pays my child support improvise my daily needs and paste the studio times. So I stand in the aftermath of the death of my aunt and grandmother in two weeks as of 03 18 2018 .awith there love and belief in my craft i will make sure i make them proud as she smiles down ima put it down.My goal is to regain my Independence increase my personal wealth in order to take care of my family even though my ex-wife and I are estranged and she has moved on to another lover and a new baby. I stand determined to be successful in the music industry that I've learned in master over these years. And with all of the connections I've obtained over the years they seem to be helping me along the way and I am grateful be ready for more music coming from me soon. I am Walter Duke also known as Wawduh Splash now promoting my sophmore indy release "Thought process reloaded" and this is merely a few chapters from the Walter Duke experience. edit, simply click directly on the text and add your own words to tell the world.