love and hip hop hollywood season 4 episode 16

I know how the tempo of everything should be. Because I’ve been rapping for over 10 years, I know how to deliver it. In the show, do you use your own experience with rap? Are you embodying ODB? Or is it a combination of both?

This interview just took a detour because I wanted to ask you, prior to the show, did you have experience with rapping in real life? And clearly, the answer is yes. One of my first shows I ever did, I performed “Bakery Boys Ain’t Nothing To F**k With” after the Wu-Tang song. I’m connected to the Wu-Tang way in a deep, deep way.Ī post shared by ⚛️ was the name of your childhood group?īakery Boys. Also, I was in this rap group as a kid and we rapped over Wu-Tang beats and we remodeled our logo after the Wu-Tang symbol. I don’t remember too many people dying, growing up, but I definitely remember where I was at when ODB died. Prior to your role as ODB, were you familiar with or a fan of Wu-Tang’s music, specifically, ODB? And I found my agent through that, and I just been rocking ever since. After that, I talked to people, and they told me about Backstage, which is a site for actors. It was one of the coolest things I ever did in my life at this time. These dudes are screaming and it’s like rock ‘n’ roll for real. It’s called “ Fault Line.” You probably never heard of them, because it was a heavy metal rock band. Some lady came up to me who was like, “Yo, you fit this part that I’m doing for this music video. I’d skate to Center City, the downtown area. It helped me get out of my environment physically. If I wasn’t skateboarding, I don’t know where I would be at right now. Philly is crazy, but making it out of that part of Philly is crazy. You either doing drugs or you’re selling drugs or you doing both. And that’s a big f**king difference because that’s an environment that’s like, whoa! It’s crazy out there. I was over there because my homeboy lived out there. Oh, that s**t is crazy, right? Kensington and Allegheny is literally 10 minutes from where I grew up. And for like an hour I ended up watching this footage of Kensington, Philly. Just the other day, I was on YouTube, and you know how the YouTube rabbit hole goes. Brooklyn is definitely like my second home. I went to the same middle school as Kevin Hart. VIBE: First things first, where are you from? With new music also in the works, the rising star spoke to VIBE about how “coming from the hood” better equipped him than formal acting training for the role of ODB, the pressure of playing the late legend and bringing depth to the usually comedic character, and how wearing those iconic grills gives him Superman-like powers. I didn’t know how to get out, but in a parallel universe, I was who I am today,” explained Atoms of his clothing line, Parallel, which he named after mind tactics he used to trick himself into living his truth.

Love and hip hop hollywood season 4 episode 16