R Kizzle

SIM: What was your first experience with music & how did you get into making music?

  R KIZZLE: My first experience with music when I was 7 I went to see Parliament Funkadelic and that was the start. I started making music in high school with my first group Dynamically Def with Q and JJ.

SIM: Who are your musical influences, who inspired you? Who are the artist your working with?

R KIZZLE: Parliament, Earth Wind & Fire, Nat King Cole, Stevie Wonder, Run DMC, Slick Rick, and Ice Cube. Right now Im working with Keira, Lirix Xiril, Marco Liru, Trofy, Foster, BMF Smoove, Momma Dee, Jeffree Charles, Ice Buck.

SIM: What has been your biggest career highlight so far?

R KIZZLE: A million streams on a song

SIM: Who would you most like to collaborate with? Producer and artist?

R KIZZLE: Artist Drake, Jay Z, Sza Producer Dr. Dre

SIM: How do you maintain your musical integrity?

R KIZZLE: When it comes to creating I don’t bend I Know what I like and what’s real so I don’t except wack shit.

SIM: How do you deal with the politics of the industry?

R KIZZLE: .I treat everybody the same rather they platinum or just started and I don’t do drama/beef once you stay away from that you should be good a well lesson learned

SIM: What was the best/worst advice someone gave you? 

KIZZLE: Never stop until you win.

SIM: How would you describe your style of music?

R KIZZLE: I don’t have a style I will say this that my foundation is definitely hip-hop, but I like all genres of music I have created several different genres of music, including pop, R&B, Reggaeton, jazz, country, Dancehall, EDM, Southern Soul

SIM: How has your sound evolved over the years?

R KIZZLE: I can honestly say that my sound has evolved into full music they used to be very hip-hop or are you in it breaks and loops and now it’s more musically, inclined

SIM: What do you think is the state of the music industry today and where do you think it will go in the future?

R KIZZLE: I think the state of hip-hop is in an emergency state hip-hop is so far away from its original intent that it’s ridiculous. As far as the state of the music industry today, we lack A&R knowledge and quality control you can’t judge music by numbers on social media and social media is good and everything but having a lot of IG followers isn’t s good measure of how good a song is or how talented a artist is being popular should not have anything to do with being a artist unless you’re a successful artist, Unfortunately, we’ve gotten away from Good A& Rs. All A&R’s are relying on in this day and time is analytics. instead of knowing what a good song and talent is when you hear it. Plus, I believe that through technology we have enabled people who really aren’t designed to make music even though they want to so real singers and real musicians will definitely get looked over through all the mayhem because of technology and that’s not good for music because the creativity will be null and void after a while unless you plan on creating music for free just because you feel like it and you love it but that will never pay your bills. I believe technology has killed this industry, money, wise, and creative wise. The future will be more technology driven and getting less paid.