FunktheFormula Magazine January Issue

and pull from everywhere, which is why I still like my name. People feel like it’s an oxymoron, Dirty Souf Yankee “that doesn’t make any sense.” But that’s how I feel, a lot of stuff doesn’t necessarily make sense. I might look like I’m dressed like a boy one day and people are like “I don’t get it, are you a lesbian, or...” don’t worry about all that, just acknowledge the fact that it’s cool and something interesting and dope to grab your attention. Don’t worry too much about the other nonsense.

What would say has been the hardest part of coming up in your industry?

I didn’t have the luxury of going to a performing arts school, even though I would’ve like to. But everything I did was sort of entrepreneurial, self starter. Now I’m well versed in the entire game; I manage a couple of artists, I creative direct. Coming from somewhere where there aren’t a lot of resources to do music or whatever, I didn’t really know what everything was, so I can’t even say it was a career change, but that was what I ended up pursuing. At the end of the day though, it’s all the same shit, whether you’re a music artist, photographer, anybody in the entertainment industry goes through the same dumb shit in whatever circles.

Now you manage a few artists, one of which is Wordspit who is a high energy artist, so with that, how do you feel about being in the managerial realm? Do you see it more prominent in your future?

People always told me I should get into management when I first came up here. I can be very organizational. When it comes down to it, I’m very meticulous about things, so being an artist myself, it’s kind of difficult to do it for myself, but in order to do it