Wow where to start! Hello everyone!!!
I'm Jason "Vandal" Schadt. I was born and bred in Toronto, Canada and am currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Petaling Jaya actually). I'm a Hip Hop Artist and Entrepreneur who loves to travel, immerse into different cultures and collaborate with people.
This journey of mine began back in the early 90's when I started making beats and emceeing with my crew in Toronto called "Cryptik Souls Crew". It was also around that time that I began to explore the world as a solo traveler and a part of a number of different community oriented projects.
(that's me under the I there top middle)
Hip Hop saved my life. I know it sounds cliche but it really did. Over the years I built up a network of friends overseas (remember MySpace when it was good?) and I ended up travelling to Mauritius and Madagascar at in 98/99 to do a self-created (government funded) music related program. It was an incredible experience, which led me to where I am today!
(2004 Hip Hoppin' in Mongolia)
I feel so blessed to have been able to experience so much in my life thus far and I'm excited to share with you my stories and what my current and future plans are! I don't want to make this intro too long as I could go on and on.. But I'll leave some links below for you to explore! Much love and look fwd to building with you all here on Steemit! Peace!
Music - https://themovemint.bandcamp.com
(All Vandal music here is free for you to download)
Video - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEW2jxaki4FH3TYKLJlVjwA
(mostly older low quality stuff)
Facebook Profile - https://www.facebook.com/vandal
Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Vandigital/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vandigital
Tumblr - https://vandigital.tumblr.com/
and yes.. I love Durian!
Welcome to steemit :D
Thank you @steemik!
Awesome, I always wondered how you ended up in KL. It's Jehad from The Brothahood, I'm here because of you. I didn't know about steemit until I saw your Facebook post, and now I'm intrigued.
To everyone here, Vandal is a hip-hop legend in Malaysia. I visited there with my hip-hop crew, and Vandal interviewed us on his radio show (which streams online and plays some of the best hip-hop/neo-soul mixes i've heard). If you know anything about the Asian hip-hop scene, Vandal is a mogul!
Big ups for leading me here bro. Will start an intro post soon and looking forward to getting to know the community.
Jehad
Mad love to you and the crew @jehad! Thank you so much for the kind words man, I truly appreciate it! Looking fwd to your introduction post! One!
Hello @vandigital! Welcome to steemit! :)
God IS Love :) Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit! ✌️
Thanks @xels!!!!
Welcome to Steemit @vandigital! Upvoted and Followed.
I also Resteemed your post.
@hilarski thanks you!!!
Welcome to Steemit!
Thanks @forestbarrett!
Welcome.
Thanks! Glad to be here!
welcome to steemit! followed you pls follow back ;)
have fun!
Yes! Thanks for the welcome @desertcoin :)
Welcome to Steemit!
Much respect for all the selfmade independent artists!
Big up! Mad love and much success!
May you thrive on Steemit @vandigital , Glad you found your way here. I'm going to check out your links now
@greatdabu much love and thanks for the support!
Yo that's dope. Welcome to Steemit! Hip hop got me through university and all :D.. And I love durian too xD
much love @kevinwong the beauty of Hip Hop is in its universality. The fam grows! One!
Welcome! I think you have an Interesting backstory, i cant wait to hear more about the travels hip-hop brought u too!
Thank you @barakan! It's crazy the stories I have and I'm glad there are people interested. Much love!
welcome. nice to meet you here @vandigital. love your sound. we´re hip hop heads as well. upvote
@betterthanhome much love yo! looking fwd to your posts and thanks again for the support!
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Omg Hi and welcome on here!!! Youre the first Canadian based person I found on here and Im so stoked about it haha! I live in Montreal! One love for Toronto though! I was in Etobikoe last summer! Hows Malaysia!? Always wanted to go there for some reason! Hip hop is the shit! Keep it up dude! xoxo
@steemityourway crazy crazy! It's been less than 24hrs I've been here and the response is amazing! I'm loving it in Malaysia! Not sure I wanna move back to Toronto hahaha not a fan of winter.. lol.. Keep hip hop alive and well :)
Thats awesome. Happy to hear that. Oh my god youre making a good point here! Winters are hell over here. Especially where I live. No kidding it snowed up until may. Ya you heard me right:P Insane. I wish you the best of luck on here:)! And take some Malaysia pics for me with your daiquiri! or pina colada haha whatever they have there:P xoxo
Sure thing @steemityourway!
haha;)
I love hearing about peoples lives that are "unusual". sounds like a great life!
Awww thanks @varah! I'll be writing more about my "unusual" life really soon! Hope you enjoy!
Stoked to have another fellow creator to add to the ranks here on Steemit. Welcome! Looking forward to more of your posts :)
Thanks @dayleeo I'll be trying to post regularly to update the Steemit world about my adventures both past and present!
Welcome to Steem @vandigital I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Thanks for the love!
Welcome to Steemit and welcome to Malaysia. I am from Malaysia but from the eastern side, Sarawak on the island of borneo. Looking forward to your musical posts. I write poems and was wondering whether these could be used as lyrics for some of the hip hop songs. Wishing you the best here. Yea, durian really rocks, perhaps you can write a song about the king of the fruit.
@positivesteem awesome! I love Sarawak! Only been to Kuching once for a show.. But I'm planning to go back one day soon! Hmmm.. A song about Durian.. I think I could do that, it would be fun! Do you post your poems? Would Love to check em out :)
The poems are on my profile, you can check it out.
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Hello Jason, welcome to Steemit family and our ever-growing platform. You have made a great decision by joining us and helping us to create decentralized entity that will change the way social media and other business models work in the future. I would like to help you out in your early days by using my steem power to upvote your first few posts. Simply follow my account and tag me by @czechglobalhosts in your posts and I will make sure to read your post and upvote you! Good luck and steem on! Tomas
Thanks Tomas! Steemit fits perfectly into my plans and I'm looking fwd to building more here! I shall follow.. Follow back!
G'day @vandigital! Welcome to the platform :]
Blessings!
Nice Introduction !
Welcome to the steemit community !!
Happy Steemit ! Best of luck !! Keep steeming !!!
For more follow me @akkha
Thanks! More Steem to come :)
Thank you !
Welcome! Hope you enjoy Steemit! We are a great community. I am a Brazilian writer and videomaker, living in London. Here I post about photography, travelling and stories. Have a look at my profile and if you like it, follow me. Cheers!
Awesome! I'll check you out. I love photography too! Thanks for showing love :)
Welcome to steemit :)
I gave you an upvote and a follow, looking forward to see what you will post.
Feel free to follow back so we can get a larger network.
Thanks for the welcome!
Welcome to Steemit Community!
Great introduction and nice post, I gave you a upvote and a follow, looking forward to see new posts from you.
Feel free to follow me back at @chantha so we can get a larger network.
Much appreciated! I'll be sure to check your posts!
nice one Jason, when i get sometime i will also introduce myself properly on here, nice post.
Word brother! Appreciate the comment let's do this!
Hello @vandigital Great introduceyourself post!!
I'm @andyluy and I've been here for a a month, a can tell you that steemit is the most amazing thing I've ever seen at the internet so far. I'm happy seeing it grows every day!
I had some hard time on the firsts week, so I spent some time searching information to improve my experience with steemit, latter I've decided to make posts about those things in order to help the new ones to have a shortcut to get deeper on steemit.
here is some of my posts, I hope It mitght be helpful to you:
SteemBnB
Usefull steemit tool
The Randowhale
Getting videos from facebook
Minnowssupport!
Here is one post from @yoda1917 That i think Is useful to have a look too
just halt for a moment
I intend to keep posting useful info that I may be able to gather, and in a near future some give away. Feel invited to follow me and if you have any question about steemit you can ask me in any of my last posts, I'll try my best to help.
Appreciate the welcome and the sharing! I'll be sure to check it out! Thanks!
you're welcome anytime ^^/
welcome to the steemit thunderdome, yo! it's...interesting.
you may dig some of my mixes (mostly trip hop/downtempo/instrumental hip hop): http://www.mixcloud.com/bucho/uploads/
i love good graf work, so i'll give it a deeper look when i'm not in the office.
@bucho much love my man! I'll def check your mix! I love to DJ some of that new school future bass, lo-fi trap jazz sound (like Soulection vibes) I should post some of my mixes as well :) Good looking out!
Welcome to Steemit! Hope you will have a great journey :)
Thank you @denitsa!
welcome aboard Vandal! eat some roti cheese for me in KL
@fiftyshades I had some Nan with garlic and cheese the other night! Much love!
Welcome to Steemit dear fellow Toronto-born.
Wow your first picture sure caught my attention!
Wishing you lots of success on Steemit. . .
woohoo! appreciate the support, I really do! also wishing you the best @susieisms :)
Welcome
Thank you @mae09
Welcome to steemit!!! Check out the #rapchallenge
@alao I will thanks for letting me know! Much love!
DJ Nesh??? 💃
Nesh is my man! hehehe @mammasitta I got your poke on FB :)
Welcome to this amazing community @vandigital
Great intro, I hope you will enjoy steemit. Wish you to have a great time on here. You can enjoy my posts too and follow me as well at @pastorlea. Thank you and have a good one
Thanks @pastorlea!
you are most welcome
Welcome to Steemit @vandigital we need more and more artists like you on this platform. This is what makes this platform unique. Following your blog bro. :)
Thanks @dheerajdj thank you for the kind words! Imma follow back! let's build!
Now that's a welcome! Thanks @dirtyburger!
A new Steemian :-) hello @vandigital I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, Wish you much luck! I Have upvoted and will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk
Thanks @tradewonk cool name you got there! Appreciate the support!!
Howdy!
yooooo! @soraya you made it! howdy back!
Welcome to Steemit vandigital.
Thanks @hackerwhacker!
Welcome vandigital to Steemit.
much love @wayfaraway :)
Welcome to Steemit @vandigital!
You're in KL? I used to work there but im back in Malacca.
@howtostartablog yeah man in PJ.. Melacca is an beautiful place! Enjoy and thanks for showing love :)
Wow!!! I'm sure you will do well utilizing this platform. Welcome and I doubt you might be interested, but I'll ask anyway. Since you are new any probably still discovering how Steemit it works I made this modern style poem that sums up how you can gain rewards from this platform. Check it out if you like.
https://steemit.com/steem/@pancheta13/overwhelmed-newbies-i-feel-your-pain
Thanks @pancheta13 that's awesome, I'll swing by and check it out!
welcome to the community ....
woohoo! thanks @arkaprava!
@vandigital Éxitos y bienvenido a esta gran comunidad!!!
Te invito a que visites mi post y dejes tu voto!
@vandigital Successes and welcome to this great community !!!
I invite you to visit my post and leave your vote!
https://steemit.com/spanish/@jhelbich/disfrutemos-un-poco-mas-no-es-dificil
https://steemit.com/@jhelbich
Thanks @jhelbich!
Great photos
Thank you @khamil!
Welcome to the Steemit platform – you’ll love it and I can’t wait to read your articles.
What has been your favorite country to live in?
I just wanted to share some articles with you that helped me as a new user…
Here’s a great post with some amazing formatting tips!
https://steemit.com/steemit-help/@steemrocket/how-to-write-a-sexy-steemit-post-step-by-step
The Complete Steemit Etiquette Guide (Revision 2.0)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/the-complete-steemit-etiquette-guide-revision-2-0
Something I really needed to learn was the special way to add pictures and gifs to your posts so here’s a great article that tells you how to do that.
https://steemit.com/steem-help/@rodb/how-to-add-pictures-and-gifs-to-steemit-posts
So good to meet you and I hope this helps!
Jay
The Steem Report
Thanks Jay, the info is gonna be quite helpful. I would say where I am now in Malaysia has been my favorite country to live in :)