{"id":152527,"date":"2021-05-22T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=152527"},"modified":"2021-05-16T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:00:20","slug":"new-book-stick-to-your-vision-young-maestro-goes-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/new-book-stick-to-your-vision-young-maestro-goes-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Stick To Your Vision: Young Maestro Goes to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"152528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/new-book-stick-to-your-vision-young-maestro-goes-to-school\/maestrofreshwes_youngmaestrobook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook.jpg?fit=576%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,461\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook.jpg?fit=576%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook.jpg?fit=640%2C432&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-152528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook.jpg?resize=540%2C432&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MaestroFreshWes_YoungMaestroBook.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s indisputable Godfather of Hip Hop <strong>Maestro Fresh Wes<\/strong> has unveiled his newest release \u2014 an inspirational children\u2019s book, <em>Stick To Your Vision: Young Maestro Goes to School<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Telling the tale of a young Maestro as he finds new adventures, both in school and as he\u2019s introduced to the world of hip hop, readers follow along as he competes in the school\u2019s writing contest against \u2018Julia the Great\u2019 and \u2018Hakeem the Dream.\u2019 Nervous \u2014 but ready \u2014 <strong>Wes<\/strong> draws inspiration from his family, teachers, friend and mentor DJ Greg, plus all that he has learned from Hip Hop, to find the power of his pen. <\/p>\n<p><em>Stick to Your Vision: Young Maestro Goes to School<\/em> is an extension of <strong>Williams<\/strong>\u2019 now-signature Stick to Your Vision brand; he released an inspirational memoir, <em>Stick to Your Vision: How to Get Past the Hurdles and Haters to Get Where You Want to Be<\/em> (2010) and <em>Stick to Your Vision<\/em> was the first single released off his fifth studio album, <em>Built to Last<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n<p>With its foreword written by <strong>Public Enemy<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Chuck D<\/strong>, and content long-credited for inspiring fellow Canadian hip hop star <strong>Drake<\/strong>, the original <em>Stick to Your Vision<\/em> book has been incorporated by multiple school curriculums as required reading and, together with his 2017 TED Talks on the subject of self-revision, have seen many guided on the right path by the multi-talented visionary.<\/p>\n<p>Cop the book <a href=\"https:\/\/youngmaestro.ca\/store\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s indisputable Godfather of Hip Hop Maestro Fresh Wes has unveiled his newest release \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-DG7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}