rapper gb2uno
Wednesday June 15th 2022 1:20pm
📍Brighton, MA
creative directed by maia feruzi
shot on: canon eos rebel t3i 18-24mm
interview
1. When did you officially start making music?
I started making music when I was younger, like, when I was like thirteen or fourteen. I don’t know what year that is exactly. But I took a long break because I started taking sports seriously and then I guess within the last like four or five years I’ve been taking it seriously. But when I was younger I wasn’t taking it seriously. It was just some shit like you open the laptop and just like, press play and record.
2. What genre would you classify your music under, if any?
Different. If different was a genre. Alternative. I don’t know. Alternative, different. If space was a genre, outer space.
3. What are some artists that you’ve taken inspiration from and why?
Um Speaker Knockerz, um Wiz Khalifa because I smoke weed all day everyday. Speaker Knockerz because being creative is part of their style, and that’s fire from an artist, I really enjoyed that. Doing your own thing instead of biting from somebody else, like how other people are doing. But it’s cool to like take from other artists and stuff too. Like in a healthy way. Like you know what I mean? You ever read the book Steal Like an Artist? You gotta read that. It’s good! It is. It’s like basically not like steal from an artist, say for instance I paraphrased a fire Lil Wayne bar that’s like stealing blatant obviously. If I did it in a way where it’s showing more like more so respect in a way, like sampling! Like that’s like taking from an artist but in a healthy way. Y’know what i mean? Instead of like doing it in a bad way like word for word.
4. What does music mean to you? If music didn’t exist in this world, what kind of path do you think you would’ve chosen and why?
Just sports like, basketball the stuff with basketball, until I couldn’t anymore. And then I would probably have kept basketball in my job vicinity of whatever I’m doing like teaching the younger kids like coaching or some shit. Or art! No bullshit or art. I like painting shoes, so I would’ve probably taken that to another level. I still, I still do that so I wanna, I might do that and take that to another level.
5. What kind of messages do you enforce in your lyrics?
I don’t. I just say whatever I’m feeling. As soon as I wake up, or however I’m feeling on the track, like if the beat touched me, and I was sad that day, then it’s goin be a sad song. If it make me lit, like I got dubstep shit, y’know what I’m sayin where it’s like break ya fucking skull, doo-doo-do. And I got like singing shit, I got shit for the ladies. I got shit where I’m like, I hate the ladies. Like a break-up or something like that y’know. It’s deadass a mood. Music is a mood. Cuz it goes all over the place. It’s like I still haven’t really found my like, sound. Or not even sound just like my direction as far as music. Like I’ll yawn and wake up and rap about yawning. Y’know what I’m sayin? Or I’ll write a song that’s a fucking script and really tell you how I felt that day what I’m bout to do that day, what you need to do that day, y’know little shit- I don’t know I’m just different. All over the place.
6. When people listen to your music how do you want it to make them feel?
I want them to feel like they’re related to me. Nah that’s weird. I want them to perceive me however they want to perceive me. I wouldn’t say my musics like good energy or bad energy I just want them to feel like they can hang out with me. Regardless of the music. It’s just like music, at the end of the day. But I want them to feel like this song made me feel like I wanted to hit him up and be like ‘yo how was your day today?’. Or this song made me wanna hit him up and be like ‘yo you brush your teeth today?’. Just however they feeling. I don’t know, I don’t know. I want my music to range from like babies to grandmas. Like that’s what I want my target audience to be. I just want to be different like I just want my shit to be different. Like grandmas know snoop dogg. Babies know melodies I don’t know they vibe to certain shit. Y’know what I mean?
7. What are some long term goals you have for your music?
I want to discover a niche and master the general. I want to find a niche and let that decide who it’s for.
8. What can people expect from you, music wise, for the rest of 2022?
Probably nothing. Cuz I ain’t dropping nothing, I’m just promoting. I might drop this dubstep song. I just don’t know when. It feels done. It’s fire in the car haha that’s how you know.
9. Give me three words to describe you as an artist.
Fun, different, and supercalifragilisticspalidocious hahaha I don’t know laidback.
10. Do you have any advice for anyone else that wants to start music?
Just do it. Do whatever you wanna do. Don’t let no old person tell you you can’t. Or anybody honestly. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do it. Just do it. And I will help you mix and master your music if you need help. And I ain’t goin charge you until the second song. Whoever want to do music at any age, just record yourself.
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