When I was younger I felt like I only fit in writing
movies, because I was insecure about who I was; I
was shy, quiet, not nerdy but weird, a little awkward,
didn’t feel very handsome [laughs], I just wanted to
hide myself so I felt if I was to write scripts (like I
enjoyed then) I could stay behind the scenes and
make a living out of something I had a passion for.
Hip Hop forced itself on to me really [laughs]. I
started writing songs at 12, teaching myself how to
structure them, figuring out what bars were (even
though a guy tried teaching me how to write in bar
structure at 14 and I quickly
forgot) but I could mentally
feel how many bars I wrote.
You get used to it after a
while. I always loved Hip
Hop though, ‘cause my dad
would play all the hardcore
rap stuff around me in my
youngest years [laughs]
my mom wouldn’t like that
‘cause she would play all
the R&B/pop/soul, just
every single thing you can
imagine my mother played
EXCEPT hardcore rap. Hip
Hop stuck with me because
some of the songs would scare me but I liked being
scared of it; the thrill made you enjoy it. Biggie is my
biggest inspiration ever, his “Ready to Die” affected
me the absolute most. For some reason, his songs
would hit me the most more than any other rapper,
even with me being too young to understand it. The
aggression in the lyrics and the tone, the raps about
sex when I was just learning about sex and
everything else it exposed me too, it made me open
my mind when I started writing.
Then I grew up on Jay-Z’s stuff, and when I learned
how to use the internet and listen to albums on
music websites like around ‘03, I researched every
rapper and got my hip hop knowledge high as f*ck.
I was a human encyclopedia in middle school. Once
I finally rapped for people they really liked it alot and
told me I should do it, so once more and more people encouraged me, then I felt like maybe Hip Hop
was for me and maybe I could fit in and be me. Once
I put that in my mind I never stopped pushing.
“Biggie is my
biggest
inspiration
ever.”
How would you
describe your music?
I’d say for the most part it’s
honest. The music matches
my life, new relationships,
or certain situations with
people may happen that
may evoke a certain
emotion and the tone of
the songs switch or maybe
the production. My producer, Wili Hendrixs, is my best
friend and like a big
brother so we constantly
work on material, and in
the process life happens, cause we’re alive right?
[laughs] It displays that in the music, so what you
would listen to isn’t just a song but the backdrop
to our lives literally. The soundtrack to what’s going on right now, you just can’t see it cause there
isn’t a reality show, but you can picture it through the
music. I know this all sounds very cliche, but its so
true. There’s never an exact description because life
changes, and with life changing, the music changes
with it at its pace, so there’s never anything set
because something is always either happening or
about to happen.