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Q+ A Nikoleeno - KidSuper great to finally sit down with you! Tell me a little about the name and how it came about. KidSuper - Honestly I got the name as a kid in New York. Me and some friends use to hang in front of a local pizza shop. One day we were hanging out freestyling and coming up with names and I was thinking if I could be anything what would it be and I said Super Kid another friend said KidSuper and 18
the name really stuck with me from then on. It represented everything I was at the time a Kid that thought he could do anything and everything. Nikoleeno - Dope! So where are you originally from? KidSuper - I was born in New York City. I moved a lot as a kid, first to Chicago then back to New York City then to Mexico then to Wisconsin, then finally moved back to New York City when I was 12.
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Nikoleeno - How was that transition as a kid? KidSuper - Moving made me adaptable and good at first impressions. I never knew how long I was going to stay in one place so I made the most out of any moment. The final move from Wisconsin to New York was definitely the hardest. Everything was different, I remember going to highschool and everyone really cared what their shoes or clothes, I said fuck it I am not going spend my money on these brands I want to start my own.
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KidSuper - I wouldn’t say anything is tougher than anything else, I think sticking with it in general was tough. I 21 was basically walking down an unpaved road that I didn’t Nikoleeno - What would you like the perception of the truly know where it was going KidSuper brand to be? and no one was there to KidSuper - That life is guide me. Starting the line at amazing and you shouldn’t be such a young age, and having defined by names or brands and you can do anything. In a tons of moments where you world where a lot of things didn’t know if it was going to seem “dark” I like to add color and light to that space. work out, the hardest part Money or having the latest was just staying with it. clothes shouldn’t make you cool! What’s cool is work ethic, having a goal and going after it.
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Nikoleeno - What would you say your defining moment was?
KidSuper - I wouldn’t say there was one! I’m really still grinding, it’s really been a gradual success if you will.
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beyond. KidSuper - We’re currently planning a fashion show in Paris for fashion week. Also, we’re working on an art show (mostly paintings) in September along with shooting short films and creating T.V. series.
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surfing, and dancing? What amazes me how you excel at skateboarding, surfing, and dancing? That's incredible how do you not just balance all 3 but excel at 3 different sports. I try to skate and surf everyday! Depending on where I am I can’t always surf! The dancing side is new for me. I’ve always loved to dance but I never had any professional training until Dancing with the Stars: Juniors. Winning the show was an amazing experience and it makes me want to pursue dancing as well! 2. What is it like being your age in the skateboarding community are people accepting? Is the community excited to have someone so young partake or are they jealous of you? They are accepting, but I feel I have to prove myself even more because of my age and that okay, it’s about changing people’s perspective. I’ve had trouble with a few contests in the past who wouldn’t let me compete due to my age, which is very frustrating. 3. Where is your favorite place to skateboard? Venice beach! 4. Describe this: you're a 10-year-old girl about to drop in at a major competition in front of thousands of people...what does that feel like? It’s a feeling I can’t explain! I have so many nerves but I always just try to get out there and do my best! If I’m not nervous then I’m probably not pushing myself hard enough!
5. I understand you are British and Japanese and predominantly live in the United States. Do you ever visit Britain and Japan? What is your relationship like with those two nations? I also understand you will be competing for Britain's Olympic skateboarding team. I was born and raised in Japan and spend most of my time there! I have been given so much opportunity to travel and I love it. My parents have always wanted for our family to be able to travel to awesome places, recently I’ve had the opportunity with Nike to travel more to places like Prague and Paris.
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6. Who are your role models and why? Leticia Bufoni - she's strong and skates like a man, but she’s also very girly and loves to dress up and wear make up. She’s super cool. I also admite a lot of surfer girls like Cocoho, Carissa Moore, Lakey Peterson. They are pushing the boundaries in surfing for girls. I also love Pink, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B. They are just powerful, tough and beautiful ladies.
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7. How did you become involved with skateboarding, surfing, and dance? I have watched my dad skate and surf since I was really young and I begged him to try! Eventually he let me start skating and surfing and I’ve been doing it ever since! I was about 2 or 3 years old when I started both sports! Dancing was definitely just for fun until ABC reached out for Dancing with the Stars: Juniors! 8. you've accomplished so much at a young age. You are a 10-year-old professional skateboarder, endorsed by Nike. What is your life like? Take me through a day in your life? I wake up and go surf at dawn while it’s still dark outside before Japanese school. Then I come home skate, surf, do my homework and play with my friends. Everything is very laid back at home. I think I dream big and have a lot of different dreams that I fight for. This has given me alot of opportunities. Most of all, I hope I can inspire kids to get out there and live a rad life 9. Do you attend school? And how involved are your parents in career? Yes, I am in school in Japan. My parents support me in everything I do and I couldn’t do it without them. 10. I understand your brother is also a skateboarder and you guys have a close and competitive relationship. Could you talk about your bond with him? I love Ocean. He is my best friend. We have a lot of fun together and love being silly, but we also push each other to be better. He’s gnarly. We do everything together even sleep in the same bed!A lot of people say they argue with their brother or sister but we don’t, we are too busy having fun.
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For those who don’t know. What’s your name and where are you from ? My name is Samaria and I’m from Oakland and Berkeley CA, it’s impossible for me not to claim both How was it growing up in Oakland ? Oakland is a very decorative place to live, you can literally always find something to get in to, I always went to school in Berkeley.. which is also a place of open ideologies..I’ve learned a lot from both cities.
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So what going on with you currently? (If wanna share about label or not all good ) just current situation is great? I’m finishing up Part 2 of Adventures of Lovergirl, I’m starting to like where it’s going but I change my mind a lot so we’ll see You released a EP a few months ago? What inspired the title and tracks for it ? Adventures of Lovergirl is a guide through a section of my life where my heart was in a place of limbo.. I didn’t know what I wanted from myself or the people around me at that point in my life and I felt stuck.
What’s your favorite track and why ? Here 2 Stay is my favorite.. I wrote the least on that one.. it was more of a freestyle which is my favorite way to make music.. I had no choice in what needed to come off of my chest. I felt like a weight was lifted after making it Do you feel your a shy girl & a foolish girl :)? Absolutely.. I make the same mistakes over and over and wonder why change never comes from it, my grandma calls it insanity she’s funny I’m also very shy, vulnerability scares the hell out of me and I’m always terrified of getting ripped to shreds by 65 someone who could use my experiences and secrets against me.. so I stay to myself most of the time. I’m working past it though My favorite track would be Slowly healing, what inspired that? The passing of my grandmother.. we were very close. Her death hit me hard and it took some time for me to let anyone close to my heart again in fear of losing them in that way. I actually wrote that one on her birthday last year
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rown out of that I feel me back Do you feel your a girl with a broken heart :) if so who has broken your heart?
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What are some artist you would love to work with? DVSN Bryson Tiller
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Gabby: Hi Amanda, I just want to say I love your artworks so much. I feel like I can connect with some of your drawings on a personal level and I’m sure many others as well. All your drawings bring a sense of reality, the “beauty” and the “ugly” sides of life, which everyone can have a deep connection with. One of my favourite drawings is a woman painting a man while asleep and quoted, “when someone shows you their true colours don’t try to repaint them”. Do you intend for others to “see” and “feel” what you “see” and “feel” in your art? In other words, do you want others to see what you are saying in your art? Thank you so much Gabby for appreciating my art! Amanda: I don't intent for others to see or feel what I do with each art piece. When a viewer interprets an art piece what they see always says more about the viewer than the art or the artist. It's much like an ink blot and I find that fascinating. That's why many times I ask my audience to interpret the art first before they read my interpretation so it doesn't sway their perspective.
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Gabby: Seeing you as a successful artist today, makes me believe that maybe you were an art prodigy? Were you born to be an artist or made an artist?
Amanda: I was born an artist. Ever since I can remember that is all I've wanted to do with my free time. My love for art has been nurtured since I was a child. I have been taking art classes since I was about 5. I was a member of a children's art museum at a very young age. I've had an easel since I can remember. I then went on to get a fine arts degree as an adult.
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Gabby: What advice would you give to artists who are trying to make their passion a day to day job?
Amanda: Educate yourself in your craft and work on it every single day. Share your art with the world. Put up a site and sell your work. Keep going until it's your full-time job.
Gabby: How did you find the groove of finding your own drawing style and being confident with it?
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Amanda: My style is always changing. If you saw my work in 2015 while I was working on my Endangered Species Collection you would think I just painted animals. I go through seasons like all artists do. My art is continually evolving. I found my first "style" once I had the foundation down and created so much work it just bloomed naturally. That was after about 15 years of creating when I was midway through my art degree.
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"Once in a blue moo create from a photo" Gabby: Approximately how long does it take you to create one piece of drawing?
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Gabby: What makes your drawing style unique? Amanda: My art work comes from my mind. I don't look at a photo and illustrate that.* Since I create these scenarios from memory or imagination they are unique in the way that it has never been created before and if it is created again it is a copy. *Once in a blue moon I create from a photo if it's a special occasion or commissioned piece. I'm not talking about these art pieces.
Gabby: What does being true to yourself with your art mean to you? And do you feel like you’re being true to yourself with your art or do you draw what others want to see?
Amanda: Creating from personal experience and creating from listening to that inner voice when an idea pops up is being true to yourself as an artist. I am true to myself as an artist I think that is a big part of why people connect with my work. My art comes from my soul. There are people that complain to me at times because I don't create what they want to see. They don't feel represented in my art. I just tell them my art represents me and if you connect with that than that is beautiful and if you don't then it wasn't meant for you to connect with and I'm okay with that.
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Gabby: What is you’re best drawing/ painting you’ve done so far and why? Amanda: I can't pick. Gabby: 3 things can’t live without? Amanda: Art supplies, water, food. Gabby: Also, congrats with your engagement to your fiancé Joey! I love you guys and even though I hardly know you both, I can sense the genuine love you both have for each other through your drawings. I can imagine how overwhelmed you’d feel knowing the power of your art reached throughout the world! How do you feel about this? Amanda: Thank you so much! This is the first time I have ever been loved so genuinely, purely and beautifully. Our love has been a powerful inspiration in my life since we met and knowing that it has touched people around the world is surreal. I don't think that I will ever really comprehend the magnitude of it but I'm happy to share the love with the world.
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Q+ A I see you’re from the Toronto area, but you grew up in Brampton to be specific. Another artist that’s blown up from there is Tory Lanez, but he caught a little flack for just saying he’s from Toronto. Do you feel growing up in a smaller town a little outside the big city shaped your development as an artist or even a man? Growing up in Brampton wasn't like we were so far away from the big city. I would be in Toronto almost every other day working with other people, so there was always an overlap. When I was growing up, I used to be on the GO Bus/train from Brampton to Toronto, to Sauga, Vaughan etc every week for studio time, photoshoots and parties to give DJs my music. I won't say I'm bred in Toronto, Brampton definitely raised me. It's suburbia with low to high income families in the same schools, so it was filled with interesting experiences. I'd gotten into some potentially dangerous situations as a teen because I was moving around so much, solo even, but that's all part of the growing process and that informed my music and personal development.
For me it’s hard to listen to your vocal manipulation and rhyme schemes without hearing an André influence. Is 3 Stacks an artist you look up to and draw inspiration from? "Inslumnational underground, thunder pounds when I stomp the ground. Like a million elephants or silverback orangutans you can't stop a train." One of my favorite verses of all time is Andre's verse on Bombs over Baghdad, and love his discography as part of Outkast in addition to his standout guest appearances. I think there are 103 similarities in our temperaments, eclectic natures and worldviews. On a song I wrote called "Ride" I found that my cadences, delivery and approaches were very Andreesque. "a sensitive thug". I'm not afraid to lament and be emotionally transparent on record. I think of the clan "divergent" in the movie Divergent when I think of me and Andre and I think that's where we belong artistically. Everywhere but nowhere at once.
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Q+ A Which other artists past or present do you consider inspirational to the music you make, and why? Past inspirations: Curtis Mayfield!! Gil-Scot Heron, Rakim, Marvin Gaye, Cam'ron, Jadakiss, Imogen Heap, Outkast, Santigold, Kanye West Present: Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, Anderson .Paak, noname, ASAP Rocky, Florence Welch, Jungle Pussy. Not only are they dope artists, who are lyrically sharp and melodically gifted, they are also self and socially aware without stuffing their views down your throat. That's what I call Unapologetic Soul Music! I ain't a preacher man. One thing that strikes me about your music is the meticulous blend of instrumentation you use in your beats. Could you tell me about your production process? Because the music I listen to is so diverse, I tend to go over a myriad of production styles and find the one that sonically fits my mood. The benefit to that is I'm not restricted to a sound, so I can play on different sound beds without confusing fans. The drawback is, I’m difficult to categorize in terms of style but that’s OK. Some of my favorite artists are hard to describe sonically. Kendrick, ASAP, Frank Ocean, Kanye West.
you featured your mother on the song “conflict, still” on your most recent album. How has she, as well as your Nigerian heritage, shaped you as an artist and a person? My mom is one of the most important people in my life. She has many of the traits that I admire in a human, and I would genuinely be her friend if we weren't related. She seeks to learn, is justice oriented, open minded, and is a "listens twice and speaks once" kind of person. Also, she makes the world a better place everyday within her vocation and through her personal actions. I find all that very inspiring. Growing up in Nigeria was very difficult. Living in a post-colonial environment rife with corruption and a government that was hard to hold accountable, there were a lot of challenges that I remember. I remember stress being a perennial part of life. I remember electrical 105 power being off as much as it was on, armed robberies, health issues... I could go on. I think these experiences deepened my appreciation for life and made me especially grateful for the little things after moving to the West. -
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“City Blues” has gotten very popular since its release, and it’s a good showcase of all you can do. Aside from this one, is there any other song in your discography you feel first You are one of the few, if not the only, artist creating this beautiful fusion of boom-bap and soul. In a time where a lot of music seems to be becoming increasingly similar in sound, do you view being in your own lane as an advantage or an obstacle? I'd say artists like Smino, noname and Anderson .Paak orbit this sphere as well, although we have our unique approaches. It's an advantage because it exposes fans and listeners to something fresh and give them a break from the usual. Also, its advantageous because it’s a world that we create as musicians that we are inviting people into and I believe we must uphold it with integrity. The only way you can look at individuality in artistry as an obstacle is if you're looking from a consumerist behaviour standpoint. It may be more difficult for somebody to listen to a sound that they haven't previously explored, which means it'll take more time for your style to catch on, or reach the masses.
time listeners should check out as an introduction to you? Why? Absolutely! City Blues is one of my favorite songs, but Caged Bird Sings as well.. It’s what I'd call my most well rounded song. I wrote it essentially for the disappointed idealists of this world, myself included. Also, when I was writing those songs, I wasn't chasing a sound or doing anything out of the ordinary. I was just being me on record and letting my subconscious take the wheel. I don't like to force things. -On your latest album you sing about changing the world. Could you elaborate on 107 what this would look like to you, and the impact you hope to have? I believe we change the world with every action that we make, whether for good or bad. Before I likened it to some grandiose action like eradicating disease or selfsustaining agriculture for all communities all over the world. I still believe those things need to happen but those are goals for humanity that I would love to champion, for now I do what it takes within my power. Things like raising awareness to causes that better humanity, destigmatizing bodies and identities through my music and my art. Bringing people of all walks of life and creeds together with the powerful medium of art.
Who is an artist out right now that it would be a dream to collaborate with, and why? Pharrell because he produced "Hell Hath No Fury" and the "Despicable Me" soundtrack. GOAT level. -What’re some milestones you hope to have hit as an artist five years from now? How do you plan to ensure your longevity?
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Headline world tour. Multiple Billboard 100 entries. Sought after songwriter across genres as well as a multi-disciplinary artist (production and composition as well). Now that coach has put me in the game, it’s time to do what I've been shouting from the rooftops for years. Bringing artistic integrity into music and connecting with as many human beings as possible. Inspire and bring hope to the older and newer generations through my work! I plan to work hard, listen to constructive feedback, find my voice, innovate and collaborate. If I’m doing that, nothing can stop me in my goals. I want to keep creating with love and good intentions. You'll see me again, same time next year. Rrrrrrrrr
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