Firefly rapper and Dover alum drops sobering COVID video
Andre LamarFirefly alum and Dover resident Amillion The Poet is back with more lyrical tunes, this time offering up a sobering music video on YouTube about the pandemic titled “The Quarantine.”
The song is a melodic reminder — over a toasty hip-hop beat — that we should wear masks and take COVID-19 seriously, especially since the country has eclipsed 400,000 coronavirus deaths.
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The video features a cameo from Amillion’s daughter, Aaliyah Adams-Mayfield.
Amillion, whose real name is Lucas Amillion Mayfield, teamed up with director Jet Phynx Films, along with national recording songstress Stacy Barthe and J'ne Indigo on this track. The song can be found on the music project “Covid-1NA and Deluxe,” which is out now.
Around 2009, Amillion survived as a single parent by traveling to poetry open mics around the country (yes, even to the West Coast), mostly performing for free, while making money from selling his book of poetry titled "Poetry in Motion Proceeds” (or “P.I.M.P.”) after his performances.
In the span of two years the Dover rapper averaged close to 100 gigs annually.
Eventually, Amillion said, he didn’t want to get pigeonholed as just the poetry guy. So he began performing at churches, prisons and schools.
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After years of racking up thousands of miles, performing stateside and overseas, the Dover emcee finally made his debut in The Woodlands at Firefly in 2018.
“Instead of getting mad about not being selected for Firefly, I was like, ‘I just have to keep working harder,'"' he said.
In his new song "The Quarantine," Amillion is trying to inspire others to fight to wear a mask and protect others, the same way he fought to perform at Firefly.