Eli Capri & TripleFiv Digital Interview
Interview | Aug 16, 2026
Name Elijah Bennett — Eli Capri Felisha Carrasco — TripleFiv What is your profession? Eli Capri: I work with individuals living with mental health challeng…
Name
Elijah Bennett — Eli Capri
Felisha Carrasco — TripleFiv
What is your profession?
Eli Capri:
I work with individuals living with mental health challenges, helping them create goals for themselves, build confidence, and navigate everyday life. Outside of that, I’m a musician and overall creative. I’m also into wrestling, gaming, tattooing, manga, and voice acting.
TripleFiv:
I’m a professional photographer, business owner, and recording artist. I’ve been a photographer for over 12 years, working across sports, entertainment, events, portraits, and commercial photography. Music is something I stepped into much more recently, so I’m really building that side of my career from the ground up.
How did you get into the field that you are in today?
Eli Capri:
I was pretty much born into my profession. My parents own an independent living facility, and we’ve been around clients with mental health challenges since I was an infant. I grew up seeing people who were struggling and developed a heart for helping them. Music has also always been part of my life. I started making music when I was around 12 years old and never really stopped.
TripleFiv:
Photography was my first creative career. I started over 12 years ago and turned something I loved into a business. It eventually opened doors for me to work with organizations and brands like Netflix, the NBA, Nike, Rolling Loud, BET, MTV, and others.
Music came much later. I started making music in November 2025, initially just exploring another side of my creativity. I didn’t expect it to become something I would take this seriously, but once I started creating, I fell in love with it.
What do you love most about your profession?
Eli Capri:
I love being able to treat people like people. They get spoken to as if they’re not human, and they get spoken to as if they have less worth than others. The fact that I’m able to put a smile on somebody’s face and make them forget about the situation they’re in is what matters to me.
TripleFiv:
For me, creativity has always been about storytelling. Photography allows me to tell other people’s stories. I get to capture someone’s personality, their accomplishments, their relationships, or an important moment in their life and preserve it forever.
Music gives me the opportunity to do the opposite; it’s how I tell my own. I can take experiences and emotions specifically about mental health, and turn them into something other people can connect with.
Tell us more about what you do.
Eli Capri:
#1 God comes first in everything. Again, huge nerd lol. Anime Gang, Dragon Ball Z is top of the list, Yu Yu Hakusho is #2, Inuyasha is #3, and the original Naruto will come in 4th place. Ima big game freak as well. I’m a big retro game collector, I have 6 PlayStation 2s, three Xbox 360s, a steam deck, game boy advance, and the new generation of at-home consoles. I collect action figures, and have over 100 discs of retro physical gaming media. I love wrestling as well. The goal was to become a professional wrestler, but I’m still the champ in the backyard wrestling scene. I’m also a small tattoo artist, and I create manga’s when I have peace and time. Besides music and wrestling, manga and voice acting is where I see myself 100%.
TripleFiv:
As a photographer, I work in sports, concerts, events, portraits, weddings, lifestyle, and commercial photography.
As an artist, I go by TripleFiv. I rap, and write music that is heavily based on my real experiences and emotions. I released my first project in March 2026, only a few months after starting music, and since then I’ve been focused on building my identity outside of just photography.
When did you discover that you had a passion for music?
Eli Capri:
Music has been part of me since I was a kid. My father was also a musician and had been signed to an independent label while pursuing opportunities with Motown. I remember being in middle school, freestyling while people would gather around me, and telling the people who doubted me, “Nah, watch. You’re going to see my name somewhere someday.”
I eventually created three albums in college and performed at San Bernardino Valley College. Music has always been something I naturally gravitated toward.
The home girl Triplefiv actually became my neighbor when I moved into my apartment. She was already the homie forsure, but then when we found out that we both made music and were into music, we knew we couldn’t split lol. Me and her style together is this weird yin yang combination that pops so well.
TripleFiv:
My story is completely different because I didn’t discover music until much later. I started in November 2025, after already spending over a decade building my photography career.
I honestly didn’t know I had this side of me until I started writing and recording. I released my first project in March, and everything has moved incredibly fast since then, including opening up for Bone Thugs N Harmony.
I think that’s what makes music so special to me. Photography has allowed me to spend my career documenting and telling the stories of other people. Now I’m finally creating something where I get to tell my own story.
Who in your field do you look up to?
Eli Capri:
Method Man and Redman are two of my biggest musical inspirations. I also pull inspiration from artists like OutKast, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Nas, 50 Cent, Jadakiss, Styles P, A Tribe Called Quest, and many others. I love hip-hop, but I’m also heavily influenced by rock, metal, and alternative music.
TripleFiv:
Juice WRLD is one of my biggest inspirations because of how vulnerable and emotionally honest he was while blending melody and rap. I also really admire Drake’s versatility and his ability to move between singing and rapping.
But ultimately, I’m focused on creating my own identity as TripleFiv. I’m still very new to this, and I’m excited about figuring out what my sound and story are going to become.