{"id":180081,"date":"2022-08-09T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=187265"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:14:33","slug":"endr-won-to-perform-and-release-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/endr-won-to-perform-and-release-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Endr Won to Perform and Release New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A stay-at-home dad. A husband. A sober, recovering addict and alcoholic. A Eugene native. An independent rap and hip-hop artist. Kenneth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Endr Won.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The name \u201cEndr Won\u201d was coined when Kenneth got involved with Eugene\u2019s graffiti community as a teenager. He grew up messing around with drugs and alcohol at an early age. He came from a single-parent family, and had \u201ca lot of free time to get into trouble.\u201d At age 15, he ran away from home and started living on the streets, where he joined the graffiti community and found his \u201csecond family.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In graffiti terms, the best names are short. Kenneth liked the word \u201cendure\u201d and the meaning behind it, hence Endr. Also in graffiti terms, the artist typically places a numeral 1 after their name to signify claim to that name. He has since shifted the \u201c1\u201d to \u201cw-o-n\u201d based on his sobriety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m in recovery, and I\u2019m a grateful recovering addict and alcoholic,\u201d he says. \u201cI switched it up, not necessarily that \u2018I won,’\u201d which is kind of finite, but it felt like I had overcome some things at the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenneth, aka \u201cEndr Won,\u201d has music on all major streaming services, and has toured Canada and the U.S. several times with some big names in the rap and hip-hop industry, such as E-40 and Mac Miller. His latest album, <\/span>The Last Few Years<\/span><\/i>, is set to be released on streaming services around August 19. He said that this album is the biggest yet of his music career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The album features several artists \u2014 Apathy, Locksmith, Self Title \u2014 that Endr Won used to listen to 10 years ago as a fan. He says it\u2019s surreal to have them as a part of his album now. But more so than that, he described the album as a culmination of all the work that\u2019s been put in throughout his life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me a long time to be able to say this, but I\u2019m genuinely proud of myself and I put a lot of work into what I\u2019ve done musically,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He also says that this album is his best as far as sound and production. Joey Coffman, one of his \u201cbest friends in the world,\u201d produced the album, and Thaddeus Moore of Liquid Mastering mastered it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just a record that I know that I’m going to look back at when I\u2019m old and gray, and matter what happens in my career, the fact that I have arrived this far, even if I stopped doing music tomorrow, the fact that I’m even in this moment and able to talk about this album is an honor I don\u2019t talk lately,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Endr Won may be a musician, but he doesn\u2019t take his other job \u2014 full-time stay-at-home dad \u2014 lightly. His new album features a song titled \u201cThis Much\u201d which is a song about his son. His son is 6, but Endr Won started working on the song when he was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Endr Won grew up without his dad in the picture, and he says the song expresses what it\u2019s been like, from \u201cgrowing up without a dad to becoming one.\u201d He talks about how he used to daydream about his own dad, and the father-son things they would do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a crazy dream come true, because all these things I get to do with you,\u201d he says, speaking to his son in the song.<\/span><\/p>\n

His son\u2019s voice is on the song at the end of the song, singing in the background.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, August 12, Endr Won will have an album release show at The Big Dirty in Eugene. The event will have physical copies of the album for sale, as well as merchandise like hoodies and hats. Anyone that gets a ticket ahead of time will receive a free digital copy of the album.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Endr Won is excited for this event to showcase his new album, and to participate in the Eugene music scene which he describes as \u201cinsanely talented and underrated.\u201d But he is also proud to see where he is now from where he started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI remember sleeping under Jefferson bridge, and now during Thanksgiving, I take my son down there to feed the homeless and just teach him some of these things like empathy and gratitude,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s purpose in the pain. And that\u2019s how the music has been: my hurt, my pain, the crazy stuff I never thought I\u2019d talk about ends up being in the music.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Endr Won\u2019s album release party is 8 pm Friday, August 12, at The Big Dirty. Tickets are $12.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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