I Am Is and Was ™ Album One - Track 1 By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ Namaste. 👋 Every empire has a first brick. This song is mine. Rags to Rigs didn’t begin as a song. It began as a decision. Made in a homeless shelter in Calgary, Alberta, by a man who had spent the better part of his life watching everything he built collapse under the weight of addiction, illness, and the kind of pain that doesn’t announce itself — it just slowly takes everything until there is