Industry Reviews is excited about today’s featured artist Blunt Brad
Check out our interview with BB (below)
IR: Let’s get to know a little bit more about you and how you grew up. So where do you consider hometown and what type of kid were you growing up?
BB: I grew up in Lincoln, NE. My early childhood I considered myself just your avg kid, that came from a family with a median American income. I was mostly involved in sports-basketball, baseball, football. Around the time of 15, I started venturing out on the streets quite a bit. That’s when I started smoking weed, and everything changed in about a year. My friends changed, my goals changed, and I moved to Houston,TX for about 3 months. I was having monthly runins with the law. It took me several years to get my life back on track.
IR: How old were you when you developed an interest in music?
BB: I have been fascinated with music since I can remember. I loved the ability of music to change your current mental state of mind with regards to your emotions and feelings. Felt very powerful to me.
IR: What was the first album you ever listened to? Can you remember back that far?
BB: Im not sure what I was listening to before 12. But the first album I remember was the studio debut album for DJ QuickQuick is the name. One song in particular I really liked was called Sweet Black Pussy.
IR: When and how did you begin your journey in the world of music?
BB: I must have been about 1516 yrs old when I first started recording Freestyle raps on a tape player, with a mic plugged into it. Back then we could just redub over the same tape, day and night. When I moved to California at the age of 19 I was looking for the all American dream of big money. Being from a much smaller place like Nebraska at the time, I never believed I could be a successful musician. I did believe I could become a successful business man. Took me a couple years, before I opened up my first company at the age of 22. I was selling packaging supplies business to business. Soon I had my own warehouse and sales staff, and fulltime employees. Money began to flow in. I started buying my own studio equipment, and recording freestyles. Soon I would start
spending time around successful producers, and other musicians to learn as much as possible.
IR: What influences shaped your musical style?
BB: Marijuana, Jordans, Hip Hop Music, Addies, Cocaine, Xanax, Codeine Syrup, Guns, Drug Dealin (Not Anymore Though!! Wink Wink!!) Some of the artist I was listening through all this. DJ Screw, Bun B, Pimp C, 2Pac, Paul Wall, Master P, Snoop Dog, Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill, Dr Dre, JayZ, Lil Wayne, Drake.
IR: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard it before?
BB: You would need to get yourself a nice size nugget of OG Kush, Load it into a very nice, clean new glass bong. It needs to stand at least 21/2ft tall for the this type of effect. The bong hit must be milky so you cant see through any part of the glass. All this smoke
MUST be inhaled into your lungs, and held as long as possible. After you exhale you will hear sounds in your head, it could also feel a lot like a tingle. This is the sensation you will feel from my music. For the nonSmokers.. Pop 3 mollies, and get ready!! Tonight
we roll!!
IR: Do you write a lot by yourself or do you have a partner or a group of people you work with?
BB: Everything I have recorded was written by me, or was CoWritten with 12 other people. Writing with a group is always great, and multiple people feeling good vibes brings out some real organic feeling music.
IR: What is your main goal at this point?
BB: My main goal is for my music, to replace every drug in the world!!!!
IR: Have you learned any lessons so far and if so, what are they?
BB: Being a sugar Daddy is much harder than just having money. You really need a lot of experience in the strip clubs before your ready. These hoe’s ain’t loyal.
IR: Are there any artists you wish to work with in the future?
BB: I would like to work with any artist, who will come to SoCal, and smoke blunts of OG Kush the entire time we work..!!!
IR: If you could create your dream tour, who would be a part of it?
BB: Hugh Heffner and the girls, Charlie Sheen, Wiz Khalifia, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Rhianna, and Miley Cyrus (Just for the Twerk’N)
BB: Where can we find your music?
BB: BluntBrad.com
Soundcloud.com/BluntBrad
Facebook.com/IamBluntBrad
Itunes.com, Spotify.com, Amazonmusic.com, Beatsmusic.com
IR: We ask all the artists we interview, what’s the best piece of advice someone’s ever given to you?
BB: (D.A.R.EDrug Abuse Resistance Education) When I was in Kindergarden or !st grade, I remember the D.A.R.E Officer telling us “Just Say No To Drugs!!” That was very good advice, sometimes I wish I would have listened.
