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Hey, super nice to have the chance to chat with you.<\/strong> Can you tell us about your early career? Where did you get the idea for the music industry?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise. I started rapping around the last year of high school when my friend Connor got me to try freestyling one night, which blossomed into recording and writing raps regularly with a group of friends as a weekend hobby. I didn\u2019t really take it too seriously and then I started checking out classic albums like Illmatic started trying to really study it. People kind of started noticing that and seeing how I was progressing and started telling me that I might actually have a talent for this beyond just it being a weekend hobby. What might have solidified that for me even more is when I jumped into cyphers at university with people who\u2019d have no problem saying if it was wack and I ended up getting a really good response. It kind of showed me more that I might have something worthwhile here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you start when producing songs?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depends on the track and how I\u2019m feeling really. Sometimes I start with the hook if the track is more conceptual so it can act as a guide as I try to write verses around it. If it\u2019s just a skills-based track, I write the verses and then sum it up with a simple hook to balance it out with all the technical stuff I might be doing in the verses. Sometimes I just get 4 lines in my head that form a dope rhyme scheme and that will set a whole track off.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One track I\u2019ve written recently that will be out soon had this approach. My goal was to write a track that maintained the same rhyme scheme throughout and I thought of 4 lines I thought would serve well as closing lines. I wrote everything to set them up while making sure every line fit the syllable scheme they established. It was kind of working backwards a bit. It\u2019s fun to figure out though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can also just start with a line I think will be a dope opening line and then expand on it from there. There\u2019s no set formula, really. I take the writing part real seriously and really enjoy it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your latest song is ‘Sedgwick Avenue’. Can you tell us more about the making of it and if there were any unusual things happening during the process?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started with the concept. I was talking to Dango (who features on it) about\u00a0working and we easily could have just made a track where we both just bar out, trading verses. But I kind of wanted to go somewhere else with it and have wanted to make a track paying tribute to the hip-hop legends for a while. And with Dango being from Detroit, I thought it\u2019d be a dope to have\u00a0me giving a general summary of hip-hop’s early days and Dango showing love to those who\u2019ve really\u00a0made Detroit a force in the culture. Once we had ideas for the verses figured out, I had a few beats from Blaize Wareham, sent them to Dango and we picked the one we thought best fit the concept. I had the opening line \u201cThe path was paved by the breakdance linoleum\u201d already written and held on to it for this track, everything else just had to\u00a0follow after that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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