Interviews

“I don’t do it for the money right now. I just think it’s cool my artwork is out there.”

In entry three, Ty Baisden explains why artists must view themselves as their own business and how he’s helping to create long-lasting, independent careers.

In entry two, Ty Baisden explains why artists must view themselves as their own business and how he’s helping to create long-lasting, independent careers.

“Even before music was in the picture, I understood I wasn’t invincible. I wasn’t immortal.”

In entry one, Ty Baisden explains why artists must view themselves as their own business and how he’s helping to create long-lasting, independent careers.

“I want people to know I’m growing and I’m learning as I get older.”

“Meeting people and experiencing new people brings me peace.”

An interview with the Los Angeles native following her farewell performance in Portland, Oregon, the city that gave her a music career.

“I could imagine raising children on this music.”

“I want little girls that are gay to have something that’s theirs. Something they can sing to.”

"Letting the sun talk is about getting in your ‘I and I’ bag."

“I’m just proud that I could be part of the movement.”

“Our Global Reach [feature] is a huge door-opener for a lot of artists.”

Yoh sits down with East Atlanta rapper Grip, whose new album, 'Snubnose,' showcases a narrator who turns slices-of-reality into fictional, detailed raps.

November is a city of a million people. November is the last time she looked at you before leaving for good. November is everything at once.

“That process of being pregnant… It has completely changed my life, and I was going through that process as I was finishing the record.”

“I’m always ‘R&B.’ That’s the first thing people will say and I’m like ‘Is that it? Is that all you feel from the music?’”

Chelsea Reject isn’t sure exactly what her future holds, but she’s excited to define it on her terms.

"I didn’t choose trap, trap chose me."

The duo’s new album, 'Complicate Your Life With Violence,' is a madcap trip through the traumas of war.

Although he isn’t here in the physical, the spirit of Combat Jack is alive and well.

“This is all I have. I can’t wait for the perfect moment. I have to make every moment as perfect as possible.”

In Korea, Junoflo is considered a “gyopo.” In America, he’s an Asian. At once, he’s from everywhere and nowhere.

“It’ll never be interesting for me to get to a place where I can’t connect with other people.”

“He just loved [hip-hop] and wanted to uplift other people in it as much as he wanted to be great himself.”

"I literally mumbled, 'Got to go out and get it,' and then the light bulb went off."

“I don’t feel like I’m good enough just to be coasting along.”

“People have their own unique styles. The term genre is dying.”

“He taught me that it’s okay not to be good all the time. It’s much more important to be real with yourself.”

“When I think of music or really anything that I’m creating, I think ‘This is gonna be here forever.’”

“I know that what I’m writing isn’t for somebody else to own.”

“I just feel like the project is more mine.”

"The biggest thing I’ve learned in the last couple of years is how to deal with disappointment."

“It’s only right to have that approval from where you come from.”