Get To Know Razor (@Razorartist) !

Q. What lead you pick up the mic and start rap­ping?

To be hon­est a lot of things did.When I was young­er my older brother­’s friend used to mc, he used to bring his sets that he did at his friends house and play them. This kind of inspired me so I star­ted writ­ing my own lyr­ics. Also So Sol­id and Pay As You Go had a big influ­ence when I was grow­ing up, but what made me want to take it fur­ther was when I went to Malia in 2008.

Q. Through­out your music you cov­er what could be classed as real life top­ics. Why did you choose to take this route with your music?

I do not plan to write like that it just hap­pens, some­thing could hap­pen to me in my life and I have no idea how I feel or felt about the situ­ation until I write about it. Music is like ther­apy to me, so the major­ity of things I write are based on true life events. Some­times it amazes me how I just hap­pen to make it rhyme and put a story to it. Its my sub­con­scious that brings it out.

Q. When I saw you per­form there was no sign of hype and aggres­sion that you see with oth­er rap­pers your age. How import­ant is it to you to stay humble when pre­form­ing?

Some­times I feel like I need to be more hype or ener­get­ic but some­thing holds me back a little, I want to let loose on stage but I am not that type of per­son. I think the things that makes me a good per­former is my clar­ity and lyr­i­cism. I feel like I do not need to be hype or aggress­ive to get my point across, as long as people can hear and under­stand me. That is all that mat­ters.

Q. From your tracks what are your per­son­ally favor­ites and why?

Good ques­tion, I would say ‘Closer’, ‘I don’t wanna lose you’, ‘Sci­fi’, ‘Into the light’, ‘Los­ing My Bal­ance’, ‘Guid­ance’, and ‘Is there a and case’. Closer because that song was ridicu­lously per­son­al to me, I don’t know what made me write it but its a story from when I was 11 years old til now. It was me kind of let­ting my skel­et­ons out of the closet. Into the light because it was a per­son­al exper­i­ence for me as well, because my ex had mis­car­ried for me and I was help­ing her raise her son. Cer­tain people (friends and fam­ily) slightly did not agree with it, but I tried to do the right thing and that is what led to that track. Los­ing my bal­ance because it was just me vent­ing about the life of and unsigned/independent artist. Just say­ing that people think your life is easy because they see the videos or shows etc, but they do not see that hard work that goes into everything. Guid­ance it was about me try­ing to fath­er my ex’s son as mine own. Is there a case because every­one can relate to it, it is about Steph­en Lawrence, Dami­lola Taylor and Anthony Walk­er.

Q. Your latest piece of work is entitled “The Dis­trac­tion”. From songs like the break­up it seems like an album of per­son­al exper­i­ence. How did you come to the choice of writ­ing such per­son­al tracks?

That song was based on what actu­ally happened, the argu­ment at the start of the track comes from a ‘cashtast­ic’ video called ‘Con­ver­sa­tion with Cash’. I used it because that con­ver­sa­tion was extremely sim­il­ar to the con­ver­sa­tion I had with my ex when we were break­ing up. That is just the way I write, I cre­ate the story in my head first, and remem­ber what exactly happened and it just so hap­pens I am able to make it rhyme. Its nutz! That song is extremely per­son­al. The way I get over things is to write about it and that is just what I did.

Q. What can we expect from Razor in the future?

I just released my new EP ‘The Dis­trac­tion’, so I am going to be doing a lot of shows dur­ing the next couple of months. In July I will be going on a 10 day tour in Ayia Napa with Dj Quincy (Choice FM). Also more videos and col­lab­or­a­tions.

To find out more about Razor fol­low him on twit­ter @Razorartist and to down­load your free copy of The Dis­trac­tion click here 

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Arash has been pas­sion­ate about Hip hop for many years. He believes through hip hop you can teach, edu­cate and empower people to become bet­ter ver­sions of them­selves and help and sup­port their com­munity and oth­ers. Hip hop is more than just music, it can be a teach­er to us all.

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