Born in Chicago to a Japanese father and a Mexican mother, Towkio was a graf writer in his youth who's been known to get into some serious jams from time to time.


"I got a crazy story," he said during a recent visit to MASS APPEAL HQ, recalling a caper that went down in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. " I climb up the fire escape. I open the door and it's basically where they store all the liquor for one of the bars. So I started grabbin' hella shit. My homie saw the lick, and he went crazy."


After they snatched as much liquor as they could carry, his friend decided this would be a good time to steal a bong-and four cans of Four Loko. "So then I'm like, 'DAMN. We hot as hell.'" Towkio recalls with a laugh. Just then he saw an old school mate throwing up a tag, so he grabbed a spray can to join in the action. "As I go grab it the police pull up on me and they got their guns drawn." he says. So he dropped his bags of liquor and ran down the block to hide "in the cut." By the end of the night no fewer than six squad cars were searching for him, and they found him. But luckily he had ditched his tie-dyed T-shirt so they let him go.


On the music side he got down with Vic Mensa's SAVEMONEY crew and eventually made a splash with a track called 'Zan With That Lean Part 3 Remix.' From there he progressed to exploring more spiritual themes in his music.


He describes his 'Wave Theory' project as "me liooking at the moon all googly-eyed and making my theories on life and shit-how the rotation of the moon controls how the water moves, but also the flow of all the energy on the earth. It's kind of like the butterfly effect."


That body of work attracted the attention of Rick Rubin, who worked with the artist on his major label debut 'WWW.' Towkio says the legendary music man is "really in tune. He hears music in a different way." Rubin taught Towkio the importance of intention. "The intention behind what you say and what you do," he explains. "That's where you can really hear the purest of the frequencies."


Elsewhere in his Open Space interview Towkio reveals how he shot a video by the pyramids in Mexico-against his mother's advice-with a hot air balloon, a drone, and no permit.


Watch the latest episode of Open Space to tap into Towkio's frequency.

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