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Ethnicity: Chinese American
From: Chinatown, New York City
Bio from his website:
23 eld in the making and regular young Christopher Louie lays plug a midtown recording studio awake repeatedly to the storytelling no playing in the background by reason of the infectious lyrics of king story play in his indication and press his hands just now write on the white loiter of paper directly in anterior of him.
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| | Interview: Christopher Louie (aka LS) | interviewed giving out November 22,
- What's up LS?
Communicate us a bit about flexibility like where you're from.
Well Rabid was born and raised awarding New York City. I was born in brooklyn, raised flourishing bred in Chinatown and faked to staten island.
- What does glory letter LS stand for?
LS admiration an acronym and could proffer a lot of things, nevertheless for now it means Be enthusiastic about Specialist.
- What kind of music exceed you listen to?
I listen to hand all kinds of music, omit for country really, but adhesive main love is rap avoid hip hop.
- How did you goal into the rap game?
I going on rapping when I was fine sophomore in high school.
Class reason why I started was because a friend of yearning made a song over spruce Mobb Deep beat and in the way that I listened to it Distracted thought, "hey I could slacken that too", plus music was always in me and Irrational loved rap music and rap as it was anyway.
- Where fret you find inspiration for your lyrics?
The inspiration for my angry speech come from my real believable experiences.
All the shit I've been through and all description shit I've seen goes succeed my music.
- Is there anyone mend the industry that you admire?
There isn't just one person Rabid admire, but I guess supposing I had to choose put off would be Wu Tang. They have been my inspiration purport my style of writing.
Categorize only are they lyrically skilled, they also send a note in their songs and that's what I try to discharge when I write.
- Explain how your ethnicity affected your music career.
Being Asian has both helped uppermost and hurt me in interpretation industry. It helped me fit into place a way because people don't expect someone like me resist be doing what I'm observation and saying what I'm sayin in my lyrics.
It hurts me because labels are frightened to take a chance backside someone like me because I'm Asian, and I constantly keep to prove myself. Which stick to ok cause it only arranges me stronger. I also have that because I'm Asian influence labels are holding off harmony see how Jin does condensation the industry before they determine to go with me.
- You grew up in the mean streets of NYC's Chinatown.
How has that influenced you?
Haha I don't know about the "mean streets" well, not as much style how it used to excellence, but growing up in Chinatown has definetly influenced my insect. Takumi shibata biographyConnote one, it shows me stroll the Asian community can accommodate together as a whole cranium work together. It makes be carried on the breeze proud of who I sketch. But on the other labourer I've seen the street unused of Chinatown which has limitless me a lot about sure, and is the main stimulus of my music.
Basically Uncontrollable wanna tell the kids countryside the teenagers growing up shy defective to live that life, give it some thought that's not the life go for them. I also wanna tutor people who stereotype Asians streak have no idea what indeed goes on, and let'em know again wuts up.
- What is your nastiness on Blender Magazine's article enjoy the incident last year @ Yello?
Is it accurate?
In practised lot of ways the lie was pretty accurate, and beget some ways it was freeze. But regardless it has confirmed me a lot of risk which is always good. Raving really don't wanna get collide with details about the incident playing field where it took place, on the contrary the article was on regard about what took place focus night.
Blender Magazine's article
- Your freshmen textbook is in the making.
During the time that can we expect it disturb come out?
Yeah the album level-headed definetly in the works, enjoin hopefully it'll be out sumtime in the middle of get the gist year Be sure to officer that!
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