And by the time I'm 15, I meet this guy over here, Justice, who was 19 when I met him. I started writing some of the most sad songs in my room, locked away, and saving up lunch money so I could go to the studio and record. I was in my first years in high school, and lost so many friends, so I started writing music. By the time I was 14, I was in a really dark place, dealing with depression. Raury: I was probably about 11 years old, begging my mom to get me a guitar, and I didn't get one until the next year, and never put it down. Teen Vogue: How did you start in the industry? And he wants to take everyone else along for the ride. But neither of these things seem to exist in the humble and self-aware teenager, who's friends with Willow and Tavi and Jaden, and knows he is on the verge of something much larger than himself. He has the kind of soft-spoken self-assuredness that you wouldn't necessarily expect to find in someone his age. The album veers from rap to song and back again, soft and introspective one minute, inquisitive another, disappointed the next. His music defies categorization - Is it hip-hop? Is it soul? Is it folk? Is it all three? Is it rock? Is it more? It's definitely more - and you get the sense that Raury likes it that way. Now on his second album, All We Need, and with a bigger platform, he has even more to say.and even more people who will be listening. Raury is a 19-year-old artist from Atlanta, whose first EP, Indigo Child, turned heads and made people ask, 'Who is that?' Atlanta knew, of course, because Atlanta is an epicenter of music.

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