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HBT Chats With Glizzee
What first drew you into music?
I’ve always loved music ever since I was a kid I started off drawing that was the first talent I discovered for myself and as I grew up over the years I think around the age of 10 as I remember I use to dance to music like I was always dancing and my aunt use to tell me that I was gonna be someone I was gonna be famous it’s crazy you know and she would be like “my nephew gone be famous y’all better be ready for him” and I still believe that till this very day and I still see that in myself as well. Music is such a big importance in myself and my family ;that’s all were surrounded by and it’s the best thing in our lives especially being African American music is just in us and I have an aunt that sings ,a little cousin who sings and a dad who use to dance back in the day he was really poppin in his time the ladies loved my dad and I knew I was gone be something special as well so honestly my family is what got me into music
You are one of the best up and coming musicians we have encountered on the internet! And your track “Prada You” is probably your best track yet! Could you tell us more about the story behind this track?
When I was making “Prada You” it was really an accident. I found this beat by Mathias Tyner on YouTube and I listened to it and I was just mumbling you know messing around with the beat trying to see what would sound right with it and I would go on Instagram and just go to my favorite artist pages and I would see other famous artist comment “Prada You” under their posts and when I saw that I’m like bro I should make a song with that phrase in it I don’t know why but that phrase just sounded cool to me and I knew that beat was right for it and as I started putting it in the beat I was like yeah this is it this is the song this is my sound and after dropping that song I knew I had to make more music like it.
Going over your Soundcloud we can tell you love experimenting with new sounds. Can you tell us more about your studio setup and some of your favorite plugins/instruments?
Well I honestly was exploring what sound would go with me and my image and it took me till this song to find it which is a whole year as of right now since then and when I go to the studio my favorite instruments would be a piano I like the melody of a piano with a hard beat behind it. It’s amazing how music has been created and how hip hop has evolved and I’m just in love with it.
Your signature sound is already very professional and amazing to listen to! How did you manage to achieve such a professional sound in such a short time? Can you tell us more about your musical background?
It took me a year to find my sound like it literally took “Prada You” for me to officially find my sound I was lost before I made this song I had times I would give up because I would struggle finding my sound and how I should sound it was so irritating every time I went to the studio and do a track and think about how I should sound in a song I would sit for 10-15 minutes thinking how should I sound in this song and I think over and over and over and just get mad or irritated but everyone loves the sound I put into “Prada You” they love it they think it’s hard. I get dm’s about the song a lot and people love my music and it shocks the hell out of me every time because I never thought I would be doing this right now. Before rap I was still dancing I wasn’t doing music at all I thought I would never be good at it but as I practiced and listened and remembered the people I grew up listening to and studied the way they got the “goat” status I knew anything is possible if you put the work and energy into it. I am an inspiration to people I have fans which is unbelievable but I have fans I have people who admires me and wants me to continue to make music for them it’s incredible and a blessing from god. I don’t see nothing but the top from here. I been doing music independently by myself every song every post every single thing I put my energy in is all me I don’t have a team I don’t have a manager I don’t have nobody but me and it’s hard but I’m doing it because I believe in my dream and I believe in myself and I know sooner or later someone will pick me up off the bench and put me on the starting team and let me show them what I can do. I will put 24/7 work and energy to get where I need to be and I’m not gonna ever stop, this is what I want for the rest of my life and I want my family to be proud of me once I have achieved my goals that’s all I want from them that’s all I will ever ask of them
All of your tracks are very melodic. Do you play any real-life instruments?
I don’t play any instruments I use to be in choir in junior high school and in college but I’ve never played an instrument. My melodic tracks were inspired by xxxtentacion, lil uzi very, and lil Wayne
What are your goals for the coming months? Any upcoming projects we can get excited about?
My goals for these coming months is to keep dropping hot stuff and just continue to wake people up with my music and show the world who I am I have so much to get done and I’m excited for y’all to see what I have coming. I have a song called “Birds & The Bees” dropping before the end of this month and I’m excited for y’all to hear it I think it’s gonna be good I hope y’all like it and after I drop that song I will be shooting some videos so be on the look out for that but I’m very excited for that too. However currently I do have an EP I want to work on called “THREE3THREE” it’s a 6 song track and i will be working on that soon it’s gonna be excellent y’all will love it. It does feature “Prada You” on it and I got 2 features on it. I have this one track that I’m working on with Trevor Spitta that’s my guy he’s very talented and humble and a great guy and we got something for y’all that’s gone be hot so tune in but other than that I have a lot to do and I promise it’s all worth the wait.
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