conducted by Hugo Lunny MVRemix: For those that are now hearing about you for the first time, tell us about yourself. Visual: Well, I’ve been making music since about 2000. I featured on a bunch of local artist projects and put out my first mixtape in 2002. I worked hard… did a bunch of local shows, featured on more projects and finally put out my first album, “Figured It Out” in 2006 on my own label, Community Service Records. After [...]
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Sin: I first want to thank everyone on my street team who contribute a great deal to my promotional effort – love you guys. I also have the best visual artist in the game 4AM, who does everything from my videos, to my websites, to my photo shoots, to showing me how to lace my air max’s the Queens way. Tasana too, she set this interview up. In terms of image we’re inspired a lot by Kanye West and how everything he does is original and done in a high quality way.
Caroline Weeks: I was listening to a lot of Smog (Bill Callahan), John Fahey and Elliot Smith when I seriously took up song writing, I respect them loads. But I think poetry has had more of an influence on my songwriting and the way I connect words to melodies. My new album (“Songs For Edna”) is entirely made up of settings of poems by Edna St Vincent Millay, who was writing in the 1920s and 30s. The most thrilling thing about it is that her poems are little-known, especially in the UK, and I really hope it’ll inspire people hearing my music to seek her out.
Nas is the latest artist to sit down with Zune for their behind-the-scenes Green Room series. The Green Room consists of video podcasts that take music fans behind-the-scenes with their favorite artists, giving fans regular access to exclusive, backstage interviews at concert venues, and includes other artists such as Raphael Saadiq, Common, TI, and Murs. There are three total videos for Nas’ Green Room interview, and they can all be downloaded for free through the Zune Marketplace.
Having worked with the likes of Ghostface Killah, El-P, Talib Kweli, Murs and Living Legends, Belief has had his fair share of beats sold and the odds are you’ve heard the songs he has produced. Recently, this talented producer put online an album/mix entitled “Let It Breathe” which can be downloaded for free here.
I recorded a song called “One Woman’s Man” that just kept circulating throughout the city and everybody started to know my name. That’s when an independent label named South Beat Records discovered me. I signed with them but everything didn’t go as planned. The best thing that came out of that was me meeting my manager, James Jackson from Slick Salt Entertainment. He took me under his wing, and from there we just kept grindin’ and grindin’. We decided to put out a mixtape called “Street Heat Vol.1” which was hosted by DJ Khaled. It caught the attention of Ted Lucas from Slip N Slide Records, and the rest is history.
Sabac Red: No, I judge no one. I don’t agree with everything said and done but that’s life – we deal with it. I live in Cali and don’t get to speak with everyone that much. Necro and I talk all the time about business shit then we’ll chop it up on some other shit but I really don’t get to kick it much with everyone. I talk to Q –Unique a lot as well. Everyone from the label came through for the filming of my video, “Viva Boricua,” and we got to chill for a while and they’re good people. They do them and I do me, it’s all good.
MissTheda: Your did a tribute to Oakland rap veteran Too $hort at this year’s Hip-Hop Honors show. How do you think you’ll feel when the day of your induction comes?
Scarface: That’s a good question. I really haven’t put much thought into it, but when that time comes it will mean a lot to me.
MVRemix: For those that are now hearing about you for the first time, tell us about yourself.
DerrtyBoi Montana: I am DerrtyBoi Montana and I’m from St. Louis, Missouri. Instantly I’m placed in a bubble gum category due to previous artists from St. Louis. First off, I’m not a rapper, I don’t rap. I am an artist. I make music. I have my own swag or brand of presence. DerrtyBoi Muzik.
