It's an honor to speak with you today. You just recently signed a distribution deal with VIP Recordings, currently distributed by a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Why don't you give us some details about you and your success. How did you get to where you are today? I first got inspired into music when I discovered my big cousin’s music while I was 12. It was a different experience to hear someone that’s I was related to on a piece of music like that. Back then I recognized his talent and I still do till this day. From that day forward I started writing but after thinking I had no talent within that niche , I stopped for years. A really close family friend of mine that I went to high school with pushed me into writing songs again. I was a sloppy songwriter and I wrote about stuff that wasn’t true and experiences I never went through. I thought maybe if I sounded like someone else people would listen to what I had to say. I wasn’t born skilled, it took a series of trial and error along with a lot of soul searching. Eventually I found myself in all this and I don’t regret the path that I took.
I'm sure your success has not come easily. What challenges have you had to overcome along the way? * Ooooh my main challenge along the way would have to be PERFECTIONISM. It's great to have but it can ruin some things if you don't keep it under control. I want to be amongst the greatest but I have to remind myself that the most beloved things in the world even have their flaws. Sometimes I'll have a verse that I deliver really well and will redo it if I feel like it could've been better. Everyone else in the studio may hear the greatest thing I've ever made but I may hear a verse that needs improvement.Let's talk about the work you do. What do you specialize in and why should someone work with you over the I specialize in gathering my thoughts, emotions, and ideas from the mental planes and converting those feelings into sound in order to heal myself and potentially others who feel the same way I do. I think more artists should work with me due to the fact that I care about this art deeply.
What's your best piece of advice for readers who desire to find success in their life? * desire to find success in their life? *Enjoy the way towards your destination and recognize the dream when it arrives. Most people are unknowingly living their dreams and recognize it till it’s over . I use to be one of those people who just wanted to be at the destination. I wanted the accolades, and everything that came with the success. But the funnest part is the journey on the way to whatever destination you have planned for yourself.
Speaking of success, what does the word mean to you? * To me success is everything that you worked for finally paying off. Everyone has different views of success but that word to me is having a genuine connection to people through music. Your never alone in this world, there’s always someone like you and a part of being human is being able to relate to eachother . So to be able to speak to people in that way is like it’s own language. Being heard to me is success.
What's next for you? What’s next for me is to keep evolving as a person so that the music can evolve along with me. Every piece of music I put out is apart of this legacy I’m trying to building and I want everything to be conveyed the way I want it to be. After The Garden drops, were on the way to an EP that will take me, as well as people around me to different heights. I see it opening lots of doors.
Finally, how can people connect with you if they want to learn more?
My new song “The Garden” drops June 25th 2021! Follow me on Instagram!
VIP Recordings’ “Red Devil” Compilation Debuts #13 on the Hip-Hop Album Chart
VIP Recordings’ “Red Devil” compilation debut at #13 on the iTunes Hip-Hop Album Chart features some of the best independent Hip-hop and Pop artists in the music industry. Hybrid styles of powerhouse independent Hip-hop artists and the notorious Pop/R&B artists headline this powerful mixture of musical styles on this VIP Recordings compilation album. Combining sentiments of Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop melodic and harmonic textures to the fabric of this album provides the listener with a body of work that embodies today’s most popular styles. Indeed hybrid music is the name of the game to today’s active listeners who crave both the dynamic energy behind the cadence of Hip-hop music or electronic rich harmonic textures, and “Red Devil” evidently delivers.
VIP Recordings, a record label out of Florida, USA is now currently distributing with “The Orchard,” a division of Sony Music Entertainment. The label will be hosting “VIP Recordings Presents: Listening Sessions North Hollywood” during Memorial Day weekend 2021 where artists have an opportunity to perform on stage for A&R’s for 100K advances.
Download VIP Recording’s infamous “Red Devil” compilation album featuring some of the music industries most successful independent artists such as Gwa-la, C-Stud Vill, Taran Richards, Black Dawn, Wayne Gunna, SATgame, Big Lew, Dockko, Ralphy Clouds, K Mac-Beats and IAMR0MEO.