Friday, February 10, 2012

Perseverance

Gifted On West East (Gowe) has done it again, and wrote an amazing track.  This song was inspired by Jeremy Lin's basketball journey.  This past week, Jeremy Lin has been making a buzz among the sports channels and the social media outlets.  Lin worked together with his team, the New York Knicks, to bring home three consecutive wins.  The past three games, Lin scored an average of about 25 points per game.  After the New York Knicks vs. Utah Jazz game, Gowe wrote, recorded, and put together a music video, all within twenty hours.  Gowe released the music video on his YouTube channel, and the song is titled "Perseverance (The Jeremy Lin Story)".  The song takes listeners on Lin's basketball journey, in three different stages of his life - high school, college, and currently now in the NBA. Gowe sampled the old NBA on NBC theme song, and his lyrics and the beats blend well together.  I really like the hook of the song:

          Is this real? Cause I made it to my dream
          They said I could never be anything I want to be
          And so even if it hurts all the temporary pain
          doesn't bother me at all cause you will make it one day

Check out the song and music video, which highlights Lin's basketball journey, below!