I mean, my name is Schama - there's no way to hide that ethnicity - but I could get away with saying I was Jamaican, and being Jamaican at the time was just way cooler." I would just say I was Jamaican to make it stop. "I would definitely get teased for being Haitian, as far as like, 'You worship Satan and you eat cats' - things like that. It was definitely more minorities, and still, to this day, there's not much infrastructure," he recalls. "I was raised in this suburb of Orlando called Pine Hills. Now based in Aurora, Noel was born to Christian Baptist parents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated with his family to Florida as a toddler. The rapper has lofty aspirations for himself as an artist, and he's almost where he wants to be. This month, performances include a return to Denver's Underground Music Showcase on Saturday, July 30, and in August, he'll release his sixth full-length album, titled Two Can Play That Game. But the 28-year-old has had plenty of practice in perseverance, and it's finally starting to pay off. Between narrowly missed opportunities with celebrities, going viral with no tangible results, and bouts of depression coinciding with his best chances at success, Noel's story is riddled with could-have-beens, would-have-beens and almosts. To say that rapper Schama Noel's music career has been a roller coaster is putting it mildly.
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