Volumes: Athens Hip Hop - Vol 1 Issue 9

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HipHop

EVENTS

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INTERVIEW

Square Up With Y.O.D. pt. 1 p. 4

INDUSTRY PROFILE

The WAVEY Movement p. 5

CULTURE

Lowkey Lofi p. 8

INTERVIEW

Square Up With Y.O.D. pt. 2 p. 10

NETWORKING

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Vol. 1 Issue 9 • September 2017

Letter from the Editor This ninth edition of Volumes is based on harmony. This month’s cover was a very special accident that resulted from an Instagram tag search. Volumes linked up with the artist coMde all the way in South Korea, and a mutual love for our hip hop communities brought two sides of the world together. There’s so much more love in this world than traditional media displays. Be willing to cooperate with one another in 2017 instead of letting the negative influences divide us.

-Scrap God

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Events October 2017

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Industry Night After Party 40 Watt Hosted by Y.O.D.,Volumes Presents, and NBlock

World Famous Hip-Hop (First Tuesdays) Hosted by Mon2 & Chief Rocka

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Featuring Ant Da Ripper, Jyshohn Lyryc, J Goodnews,T-won, Mack Boy YRN, Blue Stoner

Boom-Bap & Backpacks Vol. 2 The World Famous Hosted by Volumes Presents and camp_r.

Featuring funk.shu, Gawdlee, Da Professa, camp_r, Javae, and L.G.

Ugly God Georgia Theatre Featuring Caulfield, Y.O.D., B.Y.V. Y DA ES

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Trap or Treat Iron Factory Hosted by Volumes Presents and Drippy Promotions Featuring Y.O.D., NBlock, TDUL, Young Quay, Young & Ambitious

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Volumes Presents: Queens of Hip Hop Iron Factory Hosted by Squalle and DJ Kountry Boy Featuring Valley Girl D, Seline Haze, Queen.Wavey, Ke Turner, and B.O.Y.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:

SQUARE UP WITH

Y.O.D. Dad Devin Leonard @itsdaddawg FB/ Dad IG/itsdaddawg soundcloud.com/ itsdaddawg

Where did you grow up, and how has that impacted your music?

I grew up in Lithonia/Rockdale area. It didn’t really do much for my music, I was more of a listener at that time. I didn’t even get into music until December, but it did help me realize the songs that I liked and the sound that I liked.

Who is your biggest musical influence?

I would have to say, Travis Scott. The reverb and the feel that he gives you. He’s almost like the autotune version of Kendrick Lamar. It’s not really what he says but how he says it and the feel that he gives you in what he’s saying.

What skills have you developed that help you the most in what you’re currently doing?

I believe, not writing. That helps me actually feel out what I need to do on the song. It’s weird for me. If I write, it won’t match up with the song or I have to figure out how to put words wherever. If I’m not writing, I can just feel out the vibes with the whole song. I made Commas not writing.

What led you to join Y.O.D.?

December 2nd, I remember it like it was yesterday. Trvy came up to me and was like yo I have a hook I want you to be on, I was like alright well we’re just going to go to the crib then. That’s when Risk came out, that was Risk. Then from there on, I didn’t leave they didn’t tell me to leave and now we here.

What’s next?

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I’m working on a project for me called Give Me My Feature. I’mma have songs called Playboi Carti, Future, Young Thug, Tory Lanez is going on there. Doing Tory Lanez is what gave me the idea.

I don’t know when, I’m done with most of my part. They’re gonna have to give me my feature!

Hopefully it works. Unavailable Oct 6th, dropping same day as the Ugly God show. Everybody is on there, the whole team. Seven or eight songs of some R&B Y.O.D. shit.

Goodie Garrett Boyd @ gqqdie FB/ Golden Souls Studio IG/igobygoodie Youtube/ iGoByGoodie

Where did you grow up, and how has that impacted your music?

I was born and raised here in Athens. Being around college kids growing up and the party scene, it really made me not want to party a lot. I feel like I’m a pretty chill person all around because of that.

Who is your biggest musical influence?

That’s hard. Honestly, probably Kanye West. I know a lot of people hate on Kanye, but at the end of the day he’s a great artist. I grew up listening to a lot of him.

What skills have you developed that help you the most in what you’re currently doing?

Definitely the ability to edit. I make videos every day, so me knowing how to edit really well is honestly helping me in my everyday life. It’s bringing me money, I’m making new connections, and I feel like it’s furthering our group. We’re just continuously making newer, better content.

What led you to join Y.O.D.?

I think I joined on accident. Coming into this house, the only person I really knew was Imorie, and of course Imorie was doing Space Dungeon.

Before he even moved here, me and Imorie made music all the time. Y.O.D. had a completely different sound from what we were making. I guess I became their friends first, and then once they realized I could hold a camera they were like okay we need this guy.

What’s next?

We’ll be dropping our Unavailable mixtape Oct 6th, and this will be the first Y.O.D. full release since probably like 2013/14. It’s gonna sound different from everything Y.O.D.’s ever dropped. Me personally, I think it’s one of the greatest releases to come out of this town. Once that happens, hopefully we can just continue to build credibility.

I want to continue to grow this, I also want to shoot more videos for high end clients. My end game really is to have my own business, my own cinematography studio.

The WAVEY Movement :INDUSTRY PROFILE

Wild And Very Educated Youth, that’s what Patra Kennedy AKA Queen.Wavey is all about. She started this brand as a high school senior three years ago, expanding from clothing and fashion to photography and rapping. But where did WAVEY come from?

At first, she started with an Instagram featuring WAVEY shades. She would give out sunglasses to people and take pictures of them. Even though rapping came after the fashion, Patra had been rapping since she was a kid with her big sister. Then in eighth grade she formed a group with her best friends, and they produced two songs. When she recorded P.I.M.P. with Minnie Lea in 2016, her music career really started. More recently, The Campaign ATL at Georgia State gave Patra a platform to help launch her photography business, Queen.Wavey Camerawork.

“They were very open to me being an amateur photographer.They were working with artists like Lil Wop and a lot of local artists that were comin up in the game. I got mentors and stuff that were teaching me about the camera. I just dived in, it was really a blessing. I met a lot of good people and made a lot of connections,” said Patra.

Wild And Very Educated symbolizes that even though the “youth” may have their vices and fun they can still be educated about their passions. These things aren’t mutually exclusive.The ultimate goal for WAVEY is to be a foundation that gives

IG: queen.wavey Snapchat: queen.wavey FB: Patra Kennedy / Queen.Wavey soundcloud.com/queen-wavey back to kids interested in camera work and studios that might not have access to them.

“WAVEY just kind of been a word that describes me I guess. People would call me “wavy,” and I looked it up in the urban dictionary. “Wavy” stands for like drunk/high so I thought WAVEY and started playing with it.There are a lot of stigmas that come with being in this game as an artist. I want to be an outlet and platform of change in the community,” said Patra. - Scrap God IG scrap_goddd

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T-Rexx The Tyrant

Squalle, Caulfield, Dictator

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Valley Girl D

Son Zoo

Seline Haze

Ziggy Roxxx

Sho Biz

KXNG BLANCO

B.Y.V.

Extraordinary Music Group

Y.O.D. Lingua Franca

FIRST TUESDAY ONE-YEAR Anniversary Show: RECAP

Tru Thought

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Billy D. Brell

Azi

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CULTURE:

Lowkey Lofi

Imagine a cassette tape left out in a hot car in the scorching Georgia sun. Now pop that tape inside of your walkman and put in those dollar store headphones that you bought to tie you over until next payday. Lofi incorporates some of the old characteristics of hip hop (low quality mixing and old school samples) while adding in heavy lyricism, nerdy culture references, and a cult following. While the origins of this subgenre are murky at best, I think we can all agree some of the most prolific artists that contributed to it include J. Dilla, Nujabes, and MF Doom to name a few.

Across the interwebs, lofi has really taken its foothold across many sites like Youtube and Soundcloud yet has not really made it to the mainstream. This allows hip hop heads and crate diggers to actually “discover” new music and have that sense of satisfaction when finally coming across the newer artists such as Chester Watson, obijuan, and j a r j a r j r.

Anime, videogames, and general nerdiness play a pretty integral part in lofi genre. For instance, Nujabes and fat jon did the soundtrack for one of the most widely appreciated animes, Samurai Champloo. Chester Watson raps about watching Avatar: The Last Airbender while getting high and eating lo mien in his

gawdlee (above), Lingua Franca (below), Space Dungeon (right)

song, Dead Albatross. As a fan and contributor of the genre, I think growing up and enjoying all of these “nerdy” things while getting picked on really appeals to a whole new generation of artists. Lofi has shifted into a mostly online genre, similar to vaporwave or chiptunes. This allows for more accessibility, but it’s difficult to put together lofi shows when a lot of artists that network with one another live so far apart.

Wesdaruler @ Controllerise

Since Volumes is a local magazine, I want to give a nod to all the artists and promoters alike that have stepped from behind the screen to get together and make a community for new genres to flourish. Some of the Athens centric artists pushing boombap and lofi include (but not limited to) Space Dungeon Collective, Lingua Franca, l e t s r u n t r a c k, Gawdlee, and Bills Clinton (AstroShaman). Atlanta has introduced an integral event for the lofi scene with Controllerise, held weekly at Slice on Piedmont. Boombap and lofi producers play sets while anime plays in the background, allowing for impromptu cypher sessions.

The scene and the genre itself is definitely carving a niche, and hopefully we will be able to watch it continue to grow and flourish into something else. Music is growth, evolution is necessary for progression so the next time you come across something that piques your interest, don’t be afraid to join in and help build the - camp_r. community! @camp_r89

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In

Memory Of

ANTHONY LITTLE AKA Versatyle Tha Wildchyld

Memorial Fundraiser @ Hendershot’s Oct. 6th 6-9pm reverbnation.com/versatylethawildchyld

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:

SQUARE UP WITH

Y.O.D. Dexx Dexter Sims @twinzodadon FB/ Dexx Does Music IG/_twinzo soundcloud.com/ itsdexx

Where did you grow up, and how has that impacted your music?

I grew up in Rockdale, and it’s a pretty rural area.

Where I’m from, it’s slower...like my parents listened to like old church music and old jazz. The area itself impacted me to make music because nobody really made music I guess. I made music because I didn’t have a lot of friends, and I thought I’d get girls.

What’s one of your earliest memories of wanting to do music?

I used to pretend that I was a rapper in like middle school.When Cash Money was out, when they were all young. We used to pretend like we were a group, and we gave each other names. In high school, this dude Frankie got me into the Black History month play. I wrote a rap, it was pretty good, and got a standing ovation. So I stuck with it.

What do you think is most toxic about the music industry?

I guess one thing is separating the music from the person. People aren’t perfect. That might jade your perception of things. Just the general lifestyle of it.

You don’t sleep well, it’s bad scheduling, bad food.

Brice Anthony Brice Kelly @ _briceanthony FB/ Brice Anthony IG/_briceanthony soundcloud.com/ followtheyod Where did you grow up, and how has that impacted your music?

I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Gary, Indiana. I guess the dynamic of the south and the midwest reflects in my music.

What’s one of your earliest memories of wanting to do music?

I moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, and my friends used to freestyle there all the time. I started freestyling with them around the time Kanye West’s first album came out. Used to freestyle over that album. They all used to be rappers, and I didn’t rap but everytime I freestyled they were like “oh man you’re so raw, you’re better than all of us.” When I came back, Dexter and my friend Shaun were forming a group, and they didn’t know I rapped but they just asked me to rap.

What do you think is most toxic about the music industry?

The people that just try to follow the trends, whatever’s going on they just try to run with that to make some money, instead of caring about the What led you to start Y.O.D.?

Me and Brice had been rapping since high school. music part.

We went our separate ways and met back up, What led you to start Y.O.D.? and I told Brice I was going to go to school for it. When I went there, I met Trevor and Christian. Again, Dexter. Dexter went to school with Trvy We all clicked and went to each other’s houses and Christian. He told me to come out and to make music. I didn’t get much from the school, meet them. So I came out to meet them. We but I met these people and I felt like we had the didn’t really click at first. It actually took like a same goals. It was more than that, because we all year for me, it took me awhile to get used to went through stuff together and were put in the everybody else. We actually knocked out a track situation to become family. that day though.

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I’m definitely releasing a project, and it’ll either drop at the end of the year or the beginning of next year.

That’ll have some 80s synths, some trap, a little introspective. I’m trying to produce more. I’m producing for the Follow Forever, I’m producing a lot on a project Dad’s working on. I’m really just looking to connect with other artists that need production.

Also get Wesdaruler, hint hint.

What’s next?

My next project Super Saiyan Savage, I’m looking to drop that at the end of October around Halloween. The concept comes from of course Dragon Ball Z. I feel like this is the point in my life where I’m going super saiyan and giving it all that I’ve got. Then we have Unavailable coming out October 6th.

:THE NETWORK

Producers Dexter Sims dextersims89@gmail.com FB: Dex Does Music IG: theblvkjesus Twitter: @Twinzodadon Snap: cruz_89 Work Money Entertainment, LLC 404-781-5308 workmoneyent@gmail.com FB: Carlos Jones Kaliko Liberty Entertainment - Owner Ear Candy Studios - Owner 706-248-9523 FB,YT, IG, Google+, & Twitter: @itskaliko Kid Foo officialkidfoo@gmail.com FB: Kid Foo IG: kidfoo Twitter: @ItsKidFoo

Engineers Trevor Wiggins 706-499-9923 trvyfeatures@gmail.com Social Media: @trvyf Imorie Curry 706-308-4190 lexcallahan@hotmail.com Social Media: @lexcally

Marketing/Promotions United Group Of Artists 678-740-3884 P.O. Box 49096 Athens, Ga. 30604

Photography KatTookIt Photography Katherine White 706-621-2822 kattookit@gmail.com

Video Production No Silver Spoon Production Jeffery Welborn & Ricky Campbell 706-224-9669 Owen Hunt owenm.hunt@gmail.com Social Media: @bootsygreenwood

Illustrator Danielle Summers danisumm@uga.edu danisumm.com FB: /danisummart IG: danisummart

Photography/Video iGoByGoodie 706-207-1345 igobygoodie@gmail.com Josh Hart Media 678-637-9927

Hip Hop Artists A. Mack Booking: 706-308-5539 amack068@gmail.com FB: Aviyon Mack IG: A.mack706 Snap: A_mizzlee Dictator 706-818-0387 tothapoint@gmail.com DK Cell: 706-248-1835 Alt: 706-340-8071 dk.nowles.nowledge@gmail.com FB: ShmokageDK Twitter: ShmokageDK IG: ShmokageDK Kxng Blanco kiddblanco706@gmail.com Social Media: @KxngBlanco SoundCloud/Spinrilla: Kxng Blanco L.G. (HOTC) hotclg15@gmail.com FB: L.G. or @hotc15 Social Media: HOTC_LG Seline Haze 706-340-8071 iamselinehaze@gmail.com IG: @SelineHaze_ Twitter: @SelineHaze Space Brother spacebrothermusic@gmail.com FB: /spacebrothersoundsystem Soundcloud: /spacebrothersoundsystem spacebrother.bandcamp.com ZiggyRoxxx 706-621-9000 iggylocz@gmail.com IG: ziggyvoodoochild Soundcloud: /ziggyroxxx

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