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Mdot xcellent
It’s your girl ladychelle with ford entertainment magazine and I’m on the line with Mdot Xcellent, am I saying it right? Yeah, that’s right, you can just call me Mdot for short.
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Introducing yourself with a name that includes such a title as excellent in the name, tell me a little bit about your grind, your journey, and your music that warrants that title off the bat? My stage name is actually Malcolm Xcellent. My birth name is Malcolm, but how I got the name, one of my homies in Chicago, my big homie Coach the Truth he stamped me like Malcolm X, just cause you know I’m just like a person of change and it’s just what I’m all about. Kinda been doing music since high school, I guess I was just like Pac, kinda like started out doing like poetry, and eventually I guess I transitioned into doing rap and putting beats behind it, it and just been doing it ever since.
And how long has that been? It’s been at least over 10 years since I probably recorded my first rap. I was maybe like 17.
You say that your music kinda reflects poetry. Can you tell me some of the themes of your music? Is it always conscious or are you more versatile in regards to the subject line? Probably versatile. I lived the best of both worlds, lived in the suburbs, and stayed in the city, so I got a lot of different views. But I wanna say the poetry comes where my music, you can feel it, not necessarily everything’s conscious but I consider myself to be like a lyricist, so a lot of wordplay. My music’s versatile I might have some conscious stuff, I got some party music, I just have a little bit of everything, just to reach different crowds and you could just say I’m kinda like a well-rounded person myself so I like to put all my faces and emotions and personalities out there if that makes sense. I want to give a heavenly s/o to my late brother Just Joey who helped me
evolve my sound. We took each other from 0-1000 when we came together and without him I wouldn’t be the artist I am now.
Do you have any projects you are currently working on that you would like our audience to know about? Actually, I’m re-releasing this one song called “racks up.” I originally dropped it in 2019 but I kinda have the slow down on the club realm with it because of the pandemic so I ended tapping in with DJ Samore and she definitely told me I need to pick that track back up and just go full throttle with it. A lot of people don’t know like in the music realm, sometimes it takes a while to actually get a song to pop just to highlight this artists Money Mook and he had a song called “hit” which is like 4 or 5 years old but, because it kinda was like a relevant track or kinda like the lines and the guess the subject matter is universal, he was able to re-release it and it’s kind of a hit on the radio today. So I’m trying to do the same thing with that track “racks up.”
Now go ahead and let everybody know where they can find you? Where they can check out the music, and what messages you are trying to get out there. You can find me on any and all platforms, Google MdotXcellent. As an artist, I’m kinda well rounded. How can I put it? If you listen to my music, well I’ll say “Racks Up” is a story of triumph. Losing it all, getting it back. Kinda like the storyline behind it, it’s doing some music with some folks and when I guess it was my turn, I didn’t get the same respect and push I felt I deserved so I ended up having to branch off and do things on my own and end up finding my way. And in doing that, sometimes people try to come back, and backtrack, maybe they didn’t have faith in you and this kinda highlights all that. It’s more than just the money, it’s all about the come-up. It could be for money, or success... but “racks up” is really, if you listen to the lyrics, just about the come up. Losing it all, getting it back.
