Changing monikers is not an unfamiliar trend in the music industry, but a West Dallas native is literally starting from scratch and reverting to his birth-given name: Billy White. The artist, previously known as Spike Chester, has a new project entitled “It Almost Went Different.” It’s more than an album; it’s an introspective look into maturity, love and musical survival beyond algorithmic success.
Although the Spike Chester moniker has nearly been scrubbed from the internet, the former pseudonym was once a name creating buzz in the Dallas hip-hop scene. Now, he says with a new name comes new music and a new sense of purpose.
“I felt like what I was doing as Spike, I felt like it was really good, but it didn’t really speak to my larger purpose or what I was trying to do,” says White. “And not that my new purpose was like some devout spiritual type of thing. I wanted to be kind of more authentic with my approach to my music”…