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Songs We Love: Cam O'bi, 'TenderHeaded (Feat. Smino)'

Cam O'bi has produced tracks for Vic Mensa and SZA. Hear the first single from his forthcoming debut Grown Ass Kid.
"'TenderHeaded' is about the pain which I felt in my own childhood at those specific moments when life 'ran its comb' through my innocence," Cam O'Bi tells NPR.

Back in 2012, Cameron Osteen, better known to the music world under the moniker Cam O'bi, quit his boring job at Kohl's in Las Vegas to pursue music full time. He knew one person who owned a studio in Chicago, so he moved there.

"I was living at the studio, sleeping under the console sometimes," O'bi tells NPR.

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