I recall people coming up to me and asking me, “Hey, do you prefer Kanye West or do you prefer 50 Cent?” I was like, okay, that’s fine, people assumed because I’m black I’m going to be a fast runner. I joined the school groups, I joined the track team and, you know, people assumed that I was going to be fast. I get to Japan and I am so, I had such a culture shock that I – my eyes were so awakened in a way that I could not even imagine happening. I had these green contacts in and I was just trying to be cute and stuff, and I figured I can go to Japan and make them love me, too. I was kinda a wild, not really a wild kid but wild enough.
It was just a really – I was really excited to go because it was going to be a really great chance for me to break out of my boundaries and see a whole new world.Īt that point, I was already kind of like, kinda crazy as it was. I had an opportunity to study abroad in Tokyo, Japan. So, when I was 21, I was in college at Oberlin up in Ohio, which is the middle of nowhere. Hi, my name is Micah Peterson and I’m from Phoenix, Arizona.
