WBL Academy Students
+ APPRENTICES & PORTFOLIOS
The WBL Academy works tirelessly to ensure WBL Academy students see real progress in their skillset and output, climbing the ladders of their own talent and work ethic to be competitive artists in tomorrow’s creative-centered economy.
WBL Academy Apprentices
The most dedicated and consistent of our WBL Academy student body
Anthony
My name is Anthony Williams and I am 20 years old located in Washington DC. I enjoy creating music and beats. My inspirations are old school hip hip and rap, mainly one of my favorite artists out today Joey bada$$. In my future, I hope to become one of the greatest artists to be young and to still keep hip hop alive. In my future I see myself giving back to the community on and off stage, helping out whenever I can, and I will hope my art take me as far as it needs to take me.
Leo
My name is Leo Cameron and I am 11 years old, located in Washington DC. I enjoy creating raps and beats, drawing and painting. My inspirations are hip-hop, reggae, Ricky Platinum, Snoop Dogg, Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Odell Beckham, Blueface and NLE Choppa, just to name a few. Sports also inspires me. I am the captain of my soccer team. My hope for my future is to become a businessman, professional athlete and a rapper. I hope music will help me leverage opportunities for my future.
Sajjad
My name is Sajjad and I am 13, almost 14years old. I am located in Silver Spring, Maryland. I enjoy creating beats, art and music. My inspirations are painting, customizing electronics, Drake and my classes at WBL. My hope for my future is to make beats as a side hustle and be a technician.
Marcus
My name is Marcus and I am 15 years old, located in laurel maryland. I enjoy creating and drawing anime. My biggest inspiration is my father. In the future, I hope to be an artist.
Malachi
Hi, my name is Malachi and I am 16 years old located in Maryland. I enjoy designing characters and creating comics. I also like the general art of the characters I create, but I have been looking into other mediums of art. My inspirations are mainly forms of media such as anime and video games, most notably anime such as Demon Slayer. In my future I hope to become a comic artist or a fighting game developer.
Khalil
My name is Khalil and I am 16 years old, located in DC. I enjoy making music and drawing. My inspirations are a visual artist name Gawx and a producer name Khroam. My hope for my future is to own my own clothing line and make hit music.
Moygon
My name is Moygan and I am 13 years old, located in Laurel, Maryland. I enjoy reading. My inspirations are my friends and YouTubers. My hope for my future is to be a journalist, also my tag name is Midnight_Yt.
Dante
My name is Dante and I am 16 years old. I live in Bowie, Maryland and enjoy creating 2D art relating to comics, animation, and other forms of fiction. My inspirations are the Japanese comic author Hirohiko Araki and American artist Josiah Brooks. In my future, I hope to become a professional comic author and illustrator.
Sora
My name is Sora, and I am 16 years old located in Arlington, VA. I enjoy creating short stories, characters’ profiles, personalized letters to close loved ones, and poetry pieces from to time to time. My inspirations are freestyle poetry, my mother and father and their past art, and my poetry club. In my future, I hope to reach any audience that desires to read and listen to the messages I embed in the poetry and other works I’ll produce in the future.
Demari
My name is Demari. I be woman. I be black. I believe in breathing in art and loving it back. I am 19 years old currently located in Prince George’s County, MD. I enjoy creating stories by way of poems and photographs. I aim for my art to introduce me to people and places that even my own dreams put limits on. My inspirations are the little black girls who may look at me the way I looked at my grandmother growing up. She embodied love, opportunities, and strength for me. In my future, I hope to do the same if not more for my sister, niece, cousins, friends and even those who I may never get the chance to meet in the flesh.
Donnell
My name is Donnell (DJ) and I am 12 years old located in Prince George’s County, MD. I enjoy creating music. My inspirations are Old-School Hip-Hop Music, Jam Master Jay, DJ Khaled, and Jazzy Jeff. Growing up, I have always been exposed to old school R&B and old-school Hip-Hop music. My family is from New York and that has also inspired me. In my future, I hope to become a deejay and a famous music producer. I hope to be able to inspire other young people with my music and travel the world.
Zoe
My name is Zoe “August” and I am 15 years old, located in Potomac, Maryland. I enjoy creating music and poetry. I take inspiration from my life experiences as well as artists such as Billie Eilish, Conan Gray, and poets such as Rupi Kapur. In my future, I hope to widely share my craft and become a touring musician.
Jordan
Jordan is a junior at Northwestern High School in the Vocal and Performing Arts Program. She is a humanitarian, a voice that wants to change the world by taking a position through her poetry. She does a bit of everything from modeling, singing, to writing poetry and songs. Her interest is to be a youth advocate and be an entrepreneur. She believes “the Youth Determined our Future” and that she can make a difference.
Kadiatu
My name is Kadiatu and I am 20 years old located in Washington DC. I enjoy creating rap with the MC program and doing flower headbands with Roses and concrete also learning different forms of street art with Max Gibbons. My inspirations are My family they motivate me to keep reaching my goals and challenge myself every time I fail or succeed. In my future, I hope to continue this as a English teacher teaching abroad and bring new sides of myself that I haven’t unlocked and doing this program has helped me a lot and I am truly grateful to meet new people and experience new and bigger things
Saniya
My name is Saniya and I am 13 years old located in Maryland. I enjoy creating poetry, books, songs, and raps. My inspirations are Amanda Gorman (since 5th grade), Maya Angelou, Jamie Grace, Micheal Jackson, Ciara, and Beyonce. Fun Fact: I usually get my best ideas at night (not sure why) so I always keep my journal close by with a flashlight. The people that are helping me achieve my goals are Mr. Mazi, Substantial, Ra, and my parents. In my future, I see myself running my own business where I sell books and sharing spoken word across the world.
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