Starting off the interview with the young talented male rappers songs titled "illuminate",grew up in a place called Retreat, currently aged 21.
Matthew calls himself an "average old Joe" who was surrounded by poverty and gangster ism from a young age and basically all those elements play a huge role in his lyrics that he puts in his music. His musical background started when his dad was a DJ in all the old clubs in Cape Town and his fathr played a big role in choosing music as a passion for life.
Matt feels his not where he supposed to be with his music but his music gets played by a lot of his fans, especially the new EP he dropped titled "Identification" where his painting a picture of his life where his identifying himself as an artist in this industry. Since he released Illuminate the music video got 7k views and is still blowing up.
He grew into the the artist he sees himself as he gets to work with some amazing people, always setting up some great meetings wit h great people in the industry. He realized he had to put his own foot in the music industry door to get recognized.
Speaking about the Hip Hop scene in Cape Town, he mentions The Breakfast Rush and how Yuzriq Meyer is doing good by uplifting Cape Townians in the AM which is making a big imapct as eve ryone is trying to get there fair share and Youngsta Cpt gave a platform for some artists in Cape Town, he was initially the voice to say "Hey Cape Town has talent." he adds in Cape Town we are getting there, with so much talent all we need to do is stand together and bring the industry here.
Mathhew is studying sound engineering at the moment because when he steps into the studio he wouild like to have an idea of what his producer and sound engineer is doing with his music. He feels the sound engineering will benefit him in so much ways, to get something behind his name.
one of the people he would like to collab with is J.Cole , Matthew explains his a lyrical Genius.
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