The purpose of the CRT FRSH (previously Licensed Contemporary) section of Hip-Hop Wired was to function a hub of up-and-coming expertise within the Hip-Hop and vogue area. Right this moment (Feb. 16), we’re introducing the Hip-Hop Wired lots to Clyde Guevara, a rising star who goals to channel his hardships into audio artwork.
Hip-Hop Wired had the dignity of talking with Republic Data artist Clyde Guevara from his adopted dwelling of Los Angeles earlier within the month, and the Brooklyn native spoke in a tone that signified how a lot he’s endured over the course of his life together with how he’s at present positioning himself as an artist with longevity on the core of his objective. We opened the chat about his upbringing within the powerful streets of Purple Hook
“Rising up in Purple Hook, it was unusual at instances,” Guevara started, taking measured steps to be clear in his description. “It’s an enormous and small place all on the identical time. It’s large enough to really feel prefer it’s the entire world however it’s clearly not.”
He continued, “It’s a method in, a method out. If you realize Brooklyn, then you realize Purple Hook was a tricky space after I was rising up and that’s the place a lot of the music I make stems from. The emotion you hear in my music all comes from that powerful upbringing.
Guevara’s unwavering Brooklyn satisfaction apart, music was all the time the candy escape from the temptations of the streets. Whereas he did have interaction in a number of the typical acts younger Black folks contain themselves in throughout the interior metropolis, the artistry brewing inside him grew the extra he delved into the artwork. Beginning as a producer forward of turning into a full-fledged artist, Guevara defined that his trajectory was largely born out of necessity.
“I all the time had that love for music and my manufacturing associate HARRY, who lately handed away, he needed to get into manufacturing and I informed him ‘I’ll do what I do with you’ and it simply went from there,” Guevara mentioned. “I received into it and I occurred to be good at it however my true objective was to make different folks higher. I actually felt my position was as a producer. I needed to make folks higher like a hood Pharrell [Williams].”
The humility and need to push others ahead impressed a noble effort from Guevara and HARRY to develop an artist earlier than that relationship finally fizzled. Confronted with a crossroads resolution, the pair challenged the opposite to finish a tune and whoever got here out on high could be the following artist to push of their burgeoning enterprise. It was then that Guevara made the swap from producer to front-facing artist.
Guevara moved west and continued to hone his manufacturing and studio work for different artists. The transfer would come after Guevara misplaced his youthful brother JAH to road violence quickly after his sibling was launched from jail. The second nonetheless shakes Guevara to the core, and we gently addressed the matter however he bravely said that the loss is a motivating issue.
“No person expects to lose a brother like that, particularly slightly brother,” Guevara shares, audibly affected. “I used to be going by way of my very own factor on the time however he was away for 5 years, telling me ‘yo, for those who don’t make it, I ain’t gon’ be sh*t’ and the entire time, I felt like I may’ve been going tougher, however this second sparked me.”
This coming Friday (Feb. 18), followers shall be handled to a DJ Drama-assisted Gangsta Grillz providing from Clyde Guevara titled 486 Columbia St., named after one of many rapper’s previous residences. This follows a development Guevara set in 2021 with the two-track 75 Bush St. launch. With the backing of his label coupled together with his drive to succeed, the second forward isn’t final on Guevara.
“If nothing else, after I’m executed with this, I can say I’ve a tape with DJ Drama,” Guevara says with a slight chortle. “Being a fan of Hip-Hop first, that’s the entire objective proper there if you realize what it’s. ”
Guevara concluded the purpose with, “I’m glad to say working with [DJ Drama] was vital and had an influence, however greater than that, I can say that I’m a part of that Gangsta Grillz legacy for actual, even when I can’t say the rest. I needed to are available right here and respect what Gangsta Grillz represents, so I went in with that mindset on this one.”
Clyde Guevara’s newest drop, 486 Columbia St. will drop this coming Friday (Feb. 18).
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