BRASH Magazine Fall 19 Issue | Page 10

Music Exclusive! | Young Deuces B! 10 This project is more than just music for me, it is also a gift to him that says I appreciate you, I still look up to you and that with you, I wouldn’t be me. Milwaukee rap artist, Young Deuces is ½ of the group SNYD. The duo has taken on the hip-hop scene within their area where the genre is rarely mentioned. Accomplishing the goal of representing their city in the rap game, SNYD (Young Deuces and Burgie Streetz) has made significant strides within the industry as unsigned artists. Now, Young Deuces continues his part of the mission by releasing the upcoming project, Son of a Soldier. The album is his second solo studio release and is using his rap skills to pay tribute to his father, a veteran, who also shared the love of writing raps. In discovering his father's rap book, which included his first rap about Martin Luther King, Young Dueces created a project executing his style of hip hop while making his father proud. Check out the EXCLUSIVE interview with Young Deuces about the upcoming album, Son of a Soldier! BRASH! Your style of rap is real/relatble and often times uplifting, what inspires you to keep this style of music in this ever changing genre? YD: For me substance is everything. When I think BRASH! What motivated you to create this new project Son of a Soldier? YD: Diggin through storage, I found my Pops old about my legacy and music I rather it is something the first rap song I ever learned which was called people can relate to and are moved by, instead of “The Dream” it was a song my Pops made about just “turn up” music. When I put out my last project, Martin Luther King and throughout my childhood it I went into it with the purpose of telling a story, was something that I would perform at every Black and it was so anti-system on the surface that I was History Program, every talent show. So reading it scared people wouldn’t get the true message and seeing that just clicked for me. He’s such an however to my surprise people did. People loved influence on my life and my upbringing that I what I was putting out, family told me they were wanted to immortalize that part of him. Plus I proud (and this was the first time I received that thought it was dope to see at the end of the book type of response). Plus, whenever I get to interact he put a lil qoute in there for me, I felt like this was with fans of my music, I love hearing that I helped God’s plan for me, I felt I had to do this album. somebody through something or that they are connected with something I said, you can’t beat that feeling at all. rap book from the year I was born. And in it was