@AmiloSalamander #RookieOfAtlanta Interview
• I'm from a small hood in the heart of Atlanta called Joyland.
2. When did you fall in love with hip hop?
• I've always loved hiphop since a kid in elementary school, however, I always freestyled for fun coming up. Thusfore, landing me placements on a few mixtapes before I even made my mind up to take music serious. Once I began to show and extreme interest in production thats when i can truly say i realized i Love hiphop openly. Which I feel im a late bloomer cause I started making beats October of 2012.
3. Why do you rap?
• Because i feel my messages have a purpose, that will touch individuals to inspire motivation when there in search of desperately. Also to promote creative growth in music, art, fashion, politics, and world issues that arent always spoken about via media, I feel im a messenger, that hear spread wisdom through rythmic forms of presentation we call songs.
4. What does hip hop mean to you?
• HipHop has various meaning to me. I feel its a plateform for creative messengers to voice there insight of life inn creative forms. Its also a community that brings all people and all genres of music together, and helps the world create a bond from everyones common interest in music.
5. Describe your musical style.
•Content Evolution of Creativity
6. What was the first song you knew from start to finish?
• Outkast- Rosa Parks
7. What is JusFly?
• Its my urban streetwear clothing brand. A lot of people may not know, but there are some that only know me as a designer, simply because this was my primary focus before i began to do music. If you in the city of Atlanta, you can stop by Threadz Boutique and pick up some of the gear.
8. You started producing what made you switch and start rapping?
• Technically, i started rapping first, my homies would need quick features to finish songs instantly and im the only one in the clique to freestyle so i would just freestyle until i go straight through a verse without messing up. I starting producing because i would give other producers samples and beat pattern ideas and they would get all the credit for something i help created, so i made it a obligation to learn to make beats, and here i am after start producing in 2012 im being spotlighted by Dungeon Family/Organize Noize: Rico Wade for my music.
9. When will you drop a mixtape?
• I'm thinking sometime in the beginning months of 2014, just depends on if i feel its ready.
10. How long does it take you to record?
• Well since i started writing instead of freestyling, it takes me alot longer. i used to record a song in about 5-20minutes,however, now the process is more intricate, because i aim for certain tones on different words. Various flows for diverse tempos, and just more creative ways of writing and presenting things passionately vocally.
11. Where do you think you fit in Atlanta hip hop?
• The top honestly, ask far as creative music with a message is concerned. Now really into making a hit for the radio, which is nothing wrong with that. However, i feel i have a different lane or alternative to getting to or surpassing the levels of Jay-Z and Kanye West.
12. Name the top five albums.
• Reasonable Doubt- Jay-Z
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy- Kanye West
Trap Music - T.I
Rebirth - Lil' Wayne
OutKast - Aquemini
13. What do you want people to get from your music?
• I want people to get Hope. To be inspred to push through one more day of struggling, because paradise could be in the next sun rise. To strive for greater forms of creativity in every art form. To unite, build, and inform. Also to get a sense of who i am personally, to connect and have an emotion link and release and escape through my music. Its like when i make the beat and write the song, i want my supporter to invision a movie mentally.
14. What do you want your legacy to be?
• Someone who always explored and presented new forms of music, and presented them creativitly to the world. I want to be remembered as the greatest composer/artist to ever create music, i want my music to be remembered as something that help people get through the hardest times and brought all types of people together.
15. Your also heavily into fashion, how did that happen?
• Just me hating to be the same, and others to have the same or simular gear as myself. After i didnt recieve a basketball scholarship upon graduating, i was in desparate need to find somthing else to do with my time and talents, so i choice fashion, at a time in the city of Atlanta when it wasnt popular to say your a designer in my city. Still to this day, i still have those same pricipals and it allows me to stay inventive and a leader in the fashion community.
16. What Atlanta fashion lines do you like?
• Mine of course, which i have two brand JUS FLY & Justo Volando. Other then that its very few, when Chilly-O was still a brand i liked it, and a there are a few more new brands on the scene that im helping with so im just gone to keep that a secret for now.
17. Where did you get your rap name from?
• I was watching this Outkast video and Andre3000 was playing this character that robbed a diner and stole the peoples attending just to desplay a message, in which his name was AMILIO SALAMANDER and that was to big to fit on twitter as a username so i removed the second i from Amilio, theefore, resulting in Amilo Salamander. However i do rap as my legal name as well which is DeMario Tatum so if you heard that on one of my songs they are one in the same person.
18. If you had to listen to one mixtape for the rest of your life what would it be?
• My own, which i will reveal the title to you on a short visual i edited myself, which is my first time ever editing any visual presentatioin, i also have a passion for film, Spike Lee would be like the only Celebrity i would be nervous to meet, cause of how great his work is.
19. What does music mean to you?
• Creative Expression, Truth, Life. Everything.
20. What experiences in life have made you who you are today?
• There are so many, im still experiencing things, so i would say im still growing. However, just experiencing alot of things that i shouldnt have at young age, has allowed me to be poised about things most of my peers indulge in fully, and yet have the wisdom and charisma to navigate through it all and still be excepted and respected by all.
21. When everything is said and done what do you want GOD to say to you?
• He did everything with faith in me.
22. Who are you?
• DeMario Tatum, Amilo Salamander. I am Who I am, I'll let GOD, life, music, art, and fashion define the rest.
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