CHAZ: Growing up in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, what was your first exposure to hip-hop? ME: This is going to sound really, really corny. You know those text [rap] battles in [internet messageboard] forums that people did? Id smash fools. I just thought all of the local rappers from my city were really terrible. I thought I could do that. I really loved music, but I didnt think I could sing and had no confidence to say I was talented, so I was a backpack rapper for a few years. Then, I started singing hooks on underground super-local rap records. I remember listening to Kanye records and thinking this is SO GOOD. Why am I not this good? I tried to write verses. Nobody would book me shows, so when I was 18 I started throwing my own shows. I would literally walk four hours to hand out flyers, Id hand out 3,000 over the course of a month, and come the day of the show it would be a 150 capacity venue and there would be a line down the block. It shows you from the beginning that hard work pays off.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:00:02 +0000
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