18 release and fighting back a cough from a just-completed 35-city tour. “I feel like all types of music definitely helps people, but music that specifically and especially covers topics such as suicide - and that can be a very touchy topic - but songs that cover suicide, depression, family issues, even abuse, things like that, I feel like that’s very important, most of all to make people not feel like they’re alone,” said Phora, days before the album’s Aug. His steadily growing fan base is one that’s been built with honest storytelling about depression, love and grappling with religion. But his first album for Warner Bros., the recently released “Yours Truly Forever,” isn’t solely centered on tales of hard living. The 22-year-old has survived a stabbing, a shooting and has wrestled with thoughts of suicide.
Anaheim-raised rapper Phora hasn’t had it easy.