Brown Nation would like to thank Mic3 for this interview. Also click on the link below to hear our very own Brown Nation theme song by MIC3. We would also like to thank DJ skid for creating the dope beats.
>>Click here to check out: MIC3 Brown Nation Lyrics.mp3

Q&A Interview with MIC3

Name:
The name on my Birth certificate says Michael Ilano Rosales. My stage name is Mic3 ( Mic -short for Michael, 3 – for the third child/ 3 main islands of the Philippines.)

Where are your origins in the Philippines?
My mom is from Imus Cavite, Malagasang, right outside of Manila, and my Pops is from a very small province called Aqudahan, San Jose Samar, in Visayas.

What did your parents want you to be when you grow up?
They honestly wanted me to be a policeman! My earliest memories are of my mom and dad, taking pictures of me in a little Military uniform, with a fake gun and them telling me I’m going to become a Policeman when I grew up. I did it in the form of Security Police in the U.S. Air Force, but it wasn’t for me.

How long have you been doing this for?
I started out beat boxing in 7th grade in intermediate school; I didn’t get the feel for rhyme and substance until my freshman year in high school. About 13 years now rhyming.

How did you start in your industry?
Like I mentioned I have been writing and Rhyming since I was around 14 and found that I really had the niche and kept it strong even while I was in the military (99-02). I got serious after I moved to Las Vegas in 2002. I kept the dream alive and intend to catch my dream and am doing so as you read this.

How do you start your creative process?
I believe my creative process is like many but unlike most I like to absorb life rather move at this fast pace, and keep the essence of writing to a minimal until that right time and place I can ring it out and be one with what that is I am expressing about. I take notes while in this zone and that makes it easier to look back and use what I have thought of as a base. I use to write a lot like everyday but it just got to repetitive, so now I do this.

Who are your inspirations?
My number one inspiration is my mom. Pilar Ilano Rosales. I must say shes shown me the way threw my good and bad and vice versa. No matter how deep things got growing up, shes always found the strength to get through, and give me the strength to push threw when I hit rock bottom. Also my brothers are my inspirations, they’ve come so far and I didn’t get to see them come up, but realized long ago that they make the difference in my life. Therefore I look up to all 3 off them.

What does it mean to be a Filipino?
To me being Filipino means a lot. I mean I had no choice but to be born in the skin I am in. So it means the most to me being of this lineage unlike any other. I am a proud Filipino at that and I represent being this descent on a daily basis all in a positive way. I put the ancestral tribal warrior patterns atop my skin like the tribes use to wear them and even expressed my love of being Filipino by tattooing some key elements of the Philippine Revolution on the skin of my entire back.

Favorite Filipino food?
My favorite Filipino food(s) are Dinuguan, Pinakbit, Pancit, Balut, Ariscaldo, and Chicken adobo. I have many favorite Filipino Foods! As far as dessert, lechi flan and Ginataan!

Any upcoming projects that the viewers may be looking forward to?
Well upon completion of my first music video, we are having a Music Video Release party this January 12, 2008, Saturday here in Hawaii in Chinatown, a place called Next Door. This April 2008 I’ll have my second full length CD entitled “Tribal Chief”, complete and in stores and online; itunes. Then by next summer 2008 I’ll be in the Philippines promoting myself.

Any advice to all the upcoming talents?
My advice to the upcoming talents is that if this is the burning inside of you that you feel, you have to run with it. This has been my dream since I was an adolescent. I never thought once that this wasn’t the field that I wanted to be in. It was always thought in my mind and by others that I am going to make it as a Worldwide International Lyricist. If you can see yourself doing it 6 inches between your ears, then its already been done and you can make it happen in the physical form. Don’t loose faith, believe in what your doing and you can’t loose.