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BMF Cash
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Q. Tell everyone who you are and what you do.
A. I am BMF Cash, the one and only. I mean, music is the name, and that’s what we’re doing. Music, movies, films, we’re going up this year. Whatever the lane is we’re in it.
Q. I want to talk about your name. How did you get this name? Because I know it has a meaning behind it.
A. The BMF came from my sister. Rest in peace to First Lady Juice of BMF. She gave me the name. When introducing me to people, she would say, hey, this is Cash, he’s BMF. Music was the reason that we even got to the point where we were introducing me to people in the entertainment world. And then when she passed away, I figured that if I put the BMF in front of the Cash like she used to introduce me as the model for what she was trying to get me in front of these people and portrayed me as then I know that would be something that she wanted me to do. When I spoke to Mama Clay, which is Juice’s mom, for people that don’t know, she definitely was excited about me even stepping forward and going forward in music because I lost my ambition really, because she was the motivation for me to do music.
Literally, the first song I came to, she was like, wow Cash you got it. You got something. This is the first time you put yourself in a booth, wrote a song, and actually put this together, you really got something. But we were on a different page. We were trying to eat and get our businesses off the ground. I had just come back to Atlanta, she was trying to open up another nail shop cafe, and that’s where it stemmed from. The music was what we were doing on the second hand, and nobody knew me period for anything else but the hustle that I did. BMF Cash was the artist that she created. So, that’s pretty much where that came from.
Q. Let’s talk about your single and the motivation behind it?
A. I just dropped the single “late night”. The motivation came from being from Baltimore. I’ve been out there plenty of nights, and plenty of different mixes and different situations. And that song is all around the thought of what we’ve been through, what we’ve seen, what’s going on, there’s so much happening in that one song if you really listen closely. I’m trying to paint a picture of what you can get from my city. You’re going to get the dirt bikes, hustlers, the police, get the junkies, and you’re going to get everything in one ride through.
Q. So, who did the beat on that? How did the whole production come together with that project?
A. Shout out to Malecon, Tone touch. A lot of industry people on his beats, a lot of industry artists on his beats, he got a lot of music inside soundtracks of different films and series and stuff like that. And that’s where he took me at with that beat, just giving a picture, a movie, a vibe. Just a storytelling vibe. I’ve got a couple of tracks of his that take you to different places, like movies just inside of the song.
Q. Take me back to your first song, the first one you worked on in the studio. What was the inspiration behind that and how did that situation come about?
A. Music has always been in me. We all have a story, and I’ve always had something to say, and the way that people deal with mental illness is different. I’ve been medicating on marijuana since I was 13 when my mother passed away. So, my first song was a weed song. And my pops were totally against it. He was against me smoking weed. I’m 13, I’m a kid. He was totally against it all the way up until I made this song, the first song I made in 2014. Literally just timed, waiting, right moment, the feeling. Yeah, I think I got enough confidence to get in the studio and called my homeboy that has a studio that I know, that ain’t never been in there. And he knows I don’t rap. And I called him and say, man, I think I want to get in
the studio and lay this song down. And he took me seriously enough to be like, all right, come on, let me hear it, let me hear what you got before you even get in there. As far as me getting in front of people on the stage and speaking to people and all that, I’ve been doing that since high school, just getting in front of the school and doing speeches and all that. I’ve never been afraid to get the mic.
Give me a mic, I’m that type. And when I got in there and I did it, he was like, boy, for this to be your first time. He asked me pretty much what made you want to do that? And it was like, everybody has got something to say, but don’t express it, and music is in my journal. Females have journals, we don’t have journals, but we don’t have a way to express it without anger or somebody’s looking at us some type of way because we’re so strong. But to release it, and you can hear it and you can take it how you want it, whether I said your name or not, you know the situation, you can feel it, you understand. So, it gets your point across to a broader audience than just that person you might have had that situation with. And then other people can give you feedback too. Like Cakewalk Bobby, I just got paid. The feelings of different...
Q. What can people expect from you this year?
A. Wow, it’s starting off great. As I say, soundtracks, movies, films, is where the music is gone. A lot of people have been reaching out. I’ve got a couple of different songs in a couple of different places that I can’t mention right now. Things happen, so a lot of big things going on. I just dropped the song “Ready”. I dropped that on New Year’s, just to let people know for 2022 I was ready. And now, they can go check out a couple of visuals. Nothing major, just a quick little one-two punch. So, they can go check it out. It’s on YouTube right now.
Q. But behind the scenes, what are some of your challenges and the hurdles you had to go through to get to where you are today?
A. Believing in yourself. Self-motivation is everything. You need to believe in yourself first because people will take you in every direction. And if you go then you’ll be lost. And that’s the biggest thing as an artist, you’ve got to stay focused on what you want to do, and how you want to do it, and the time you want to do it in, and the time you’re able to do it in. Getting pressured into different things in different places, and agreeing to different situations that sound good, and you haven’t thought about it long enough to figure out that’s not where you want to go, and that’s not the crowd you want to be with, and that’s not the label or brand you want to represent.
Get yourself a team, a strong team, they matter. I don’t care how independent you are, you need a team, period. Get yourself a team that’s for you, that believes in the music, that tells you the truth about your music. Don’t let them sugar coat it. Tell them that it ain’t it if that ain’t it. Or that might be it, let some other people hear it, let’s see if they say that’s it. If they say all right, let’s try pushing it to some more people. You need those types of people around you, and I’ve got them, I do.
Q. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
A. The best piece of advice I’ve ever received. I grew up with a lot of OGs. And being from Baltimore I never really hung with my crowd, anyway. So, advice was given to me daily. Besides, stay safe, don’t let your friends get you in trouble, strap up in more ways than one. There are so many different ways that I’ve been given advice, all of them through life have been good for me. I kind of took them all the same. My dad was the one in my head, don’t let your friends get you in trouble.
So, I’ve never put myself in the position of not being around or being set back from something. It’s always been somebody or something around me that has put me in that position. So, you just got to know how to move. The advice just keeps spinning around in your head all the time. So, it came from so many different ways.
Q. Where can the readers follow you?
A. BMF Cash globally. You can Google me. Instagram, BMF Cash, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, all the platforms. Google me. BMF Cash.
