now. Not just musically, but culturally and socially as well. With that said, there is a lot of responsibility on those involved hip hop to understand just how important that is. This is something that the majority of artists fail to understand or are just now learning.
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0. What do you have coming up? just recently dropped my new album “Block
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8. What’s your favorite element of a hiphop song? Lyrics, the beats, or is it a combination of both?
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emotions that the s o n g s evoke. Melody plays a big role in that but also the blend of having the right drums with the right chords and lyrics that makes it beautiful.
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9. Can you explain the idea behind Starstruck?
tarstruck isn’t a label or anything in those regards. It’s a support system, sort of a meeting of the minds. Every artist that is involved has their own thing going on. Starstruck just acts as a hub for those artists to get feedback, support, collabs, beats, shows….anything really. At the end of the day, we realized that we can’t do this on our own. It’s something that Arizona Hip Hop needs. Our goal with Starstruck is to make the name synonymous with success, quality and respect. Think of it as a ranking system: When you hear “Starstruck” Associated with an artist, you
House”, so I’ve been promoting that as well as helping out some of my fellow Starstruck mates with some promo for some their projects. As a solo artist, I can’t give away too much at this point, but I am expecting to give you all a conclusion/summation of the last 8 years as a Hip Hop artists out of Tucson. The Diversity Higher project is on the table to finally be released this year as well as a possible Starstruck compilation project.
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1. Who Higher?
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iversity Higher consists of Tucson Don, and myself a long time friend of mine whose album “E.P.I.C” I executive produced. Him and I have amazing chemistry and always talked about making an album together. We have about 13 songs locked down and I can say that it is probably the best music I have made in my life. We have b e e n described as a “west c o a s t outkast” by some and we k n o w that there are at a few people e x c i t e d about the project. We dropped the single “Germs” late last year and we plan on making a push to drop the album sometime after the summer.
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2. Do you have any special requests or anything you want me to add, anybody you’d like to dedicate this article to, or anything like that? hout out to anyone who ever gave a f##k.
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