Looking ahead five years, Douglass envisions headlining his own tours while continuing to use his background youth education to pay it forward. “I’ve worked for non-profits, juvenile detention centers, hospitals, middle schools, high schools, colleges, and elementary schools. I would be doing them a disservice if I didn’t speak to them about the creative process as well as having a strong business sense,” he explains. “They’ll know exactly what to do because they’ll have that information and that knowledge from different programs and different conversations that we’re putting in place to assist them in their rise as artists.”
Maybe most importantly, Douglass sees his platform as something bigger. One of his clothing brand taglines reads: “Black is golden. Black is excellence. Black is creativity. Black is freedom.” And for an artist who refuses to be boxed in by genre, geography, or expectation, freedom isn’t just a word, it’s the whole point.