I The_Grime

The_Grime is snow on a black NYC street.

Dramatics aside!

The_Grime was raised by immigrant parents who traveled from Trinidad to New York for a better life like many others at the time.

During the younger stages of life The_Grime remembered pleasant summers in Trinidad filled with bats, chickens and goats. Streets filled with roti and packed taxi vans; and falls and winters on chilly New York streets with puffy jackets and long bus lines. The_Grime felt bless to call two places home. Two places vastly different in mood and lifestyle.

During the third grade, Grime began to feel different, perhaps oddly lonely. But Grime knew he had a loving family and tough older sister to bat away any ill feelings or inadequacies. As The_Grime matured he frequently borrowed his families video camera to record anything he could, he couldn’t help himself for framing life the way he saw it. Or the way he wanted it to be.

In High-school The_Grime did well in advance and honor classes and decided to take classes at New York Film Academy to further pursue his hobby. His first film was a failure as he never edited before, so Grime decided to run from presentation night and feign sickness to avoid failure. Eventually The_Grime decides to follow his sister to Rutgers University, because he honestly didn’t think he can pursue anything in film anymore and his writing was always good. But mostly because he had no idea who he was or what he wanted to become.

During college The_Grime encountered many people of different backgrounds and ethnicities, but the feeling of loss and loneliness heightened as his willingness to pursue his hobbies grew. He began working on small films and tv shows but was never at peace with himself. Often bouncing irrationally from one thing to the next. Eventually Grime found an answer. He found acceptance, serenity, and control in drugs and alcohol and here his life took a major defining turn.

Eventually The_Grime graduated and started a successful career in casting for reality television before working as a tv commercial producer. But the hunger grew inside. All the therapy couldn’t help Grime hold a relationship for any extended period of time. A breakup with the longest of his relationships started Grime on a slow and long spiral that was years coming. The_Grime began heavily self medicating which affected family, his finances and his friends.

Soon The_Grime found himself frequenting the underbelly of His city. Committing theft, fraud and other heinous acts among other spiritually lost souls. The_Grime has no idea how his life became so disjointed. He became selfish in framing life under the lens as he wanted it to be. Dressed, directed and lit up to his discretion, and not accepting the scene as it is.

Currently writing from rehab with a hidden phone. The_Grime is on a mission to change his habits and the life he once lived. To write stories that other souls on a journey of change can relate too and do something helpful with the stories he has gathered.