My name is: Holy Smokes
Straight outta: Brooklyn, New York
This is my story:
It was just my moms when I was growing up. She got seven kids: fives girls, two boys. I’m second oldest. I had to be the breadwinner. So that’s what kept me in the streets or whatever.
My mom’s from England. My father’s Jamaican. He was a gangsta. There’s a book being written on him. The Untouchables was the name of [his] gang. They were terrorizing in the 80s. But their reign went down.
He just got out of jail after 17 and a half years.
School was just not doing it.[And] I was on the honor roll and all that. [But] I was supporting myself, been living on my own since I was like 14. So…I needed to get that gwap. I was like, “School got to take a time out. Right now I got to hit the streets and pay them bills.”
I started really rhyming at 9. I was freestyling. I didn’t write a rhyme until I was about 13.
I was on Sunz of Men album. Had two songs on there. The song I did was on the soundtrack for a movie called, American Gangstas. Then, their label D3, folded. Thing is, I didn’t sign nothing. I didn’t know anything was coming out. But when I contacted my lawyer they tried to get at [D3] and they was like, “There’s no money.” Everything folded. If I had spoken up from the jump I would have had enough information to know what they was pushing it.
What shocked me was how phony people are. That’s what shocked me the most being in this business. I thought it was a lot of unity, and everybody stick together and we best friends or whatever. [But] being around a lot of rappers, I noticed it’s not like that. Everybody got they problems… and you got to get in where you fit in. And watch where you’re getting in at too.
This is my influence:
I’ve always wanted to do music. It wasn’t a bright idea to me. I was always running around like, “Yo, I’m the illest rapper. I will battle you!” I was rhyming from the time I can remember.
But I really, really knew I wanted to do it when I heard Slick Rick. He just gave me that stamp like, This is the type of sound of music I want to be associating myself with.
I had a group when I was younger called Variety Of Styles. and I used practice different styles and teach cats in my group how to practice different styles. That led me to want to flip a lot of styles.
This is why I'm hot:
I think that everything has its time. To me everything is a 360. It’s like a boomerang. New York was on top at one time and the south was at the very bottom. People ain’t even understand the south. So when you think about everything in life, it’s like how the earth rotates in 360 degrees. Hip hop is going to go around the globe and come back around.
It’s like Eminem said, you got one shot. When you see your opportunity, don’t slip up.
I’ve got an ear for good music. That’s why my shows are so energetic. I throw my hat and chain off. It’s rowdy. I’m like a mid-energetic Lil Jon mixed with Busta.
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