Q.) What is your name / stage name?
5
Q.) Where are you from?
Philadelphia
Q.) What do you do?
I’m a multifaceted recording artist. I also own a clothing brand while being a digital collage artist as well.
Q.) How long have you been making music?
I’ve been making music on and off since I was 7 years old. I got serious about it again when I was 18.
Q.) What was your first song/project?
My first song and projects can’t even be found online. I used to make mixtapes with my friend in elementary school. He knew how to engineer and burn CD’s. My first project on streaming platforms was PM Passion Vol. I
Q.) Who’s your inspiration?
I really look up to Will Smith for his excellence in both rap and hollywood (I’m a former actor as well)– Biggie Smalls as far as rapping, along with Drake, Asap Rocky, etc. Also shoutout to Sade
Q.) What genre of music do you create?
I’m a rapper. But highly sonically multifaceted. I specialize in a genre bending combination of vintage r&b, hip-hop percussion and tempo, vaporwave and trap beats.
Q.) What are some features you have?
I don’t have any industry features but I’ve created branding content for the likes of A$AP Ant, OT7 Quanny, Dave East, and Druski even wore one of my shirts (Avant-Garde©) in one of his skits. If this is about myself, I am very coachable and knowledgable of music. I also have a well-rounded ear because I listen to a plethora of different genres.
Q.) Who’s one person, dead or alive, that you’d want to work with?
I’d love to work with either Biggie Smalls or Michael Jackson
Q.) Are you signed to a label?
Not currently
Q.) Do you want a record deal, a distribution deal, or none?
A distribution deal would bless me a great deal I feel with the way my independent mind works. But a record deal could also be awesome depending on if they care about me enough.
Q.) Who are your biggest supporters?
I can feel the support of both of my late parents spiritually, daily. Aside from them I truly don’t have many supporters other than my beautiful girlfriend and one of my best friends, Shannon. Also my friend and fellow recording artist, Tony Pesos.
Q.) Do you write your own material?
I do
Q.) Do you create your own music video concepts?
I do, and I’ve directed, and edited all of my visuals as well.
Q.) What’s your favorite music to listen to?
I love contemporary jazz, rap, metal, vaporwave and vintage rnb
Q.) What are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on a few visualizers for some tracks that went unreleased in 2022. I also have some new music I’m writing and recording currently.
Q.) What is your latest release?
My latest release is a single on all platforms called “Portuguese Herringbone”– this followed up after I dropped my third installment of PM Passion, PM Passion Vol. III: Champagne Everything
Q.) When is your next release?
I just completed the visualizer for it. Working on creating my cover for it but it should release at the end of January
Q.) Where is one place you want to travel to perform?
I want to travel to Portugal
Q.) What’s the biggest crowd that you have performed for?
I performed at a Philly festival recently that had a little under 500 people.
Q.) Who’s someone you can see yourself on tour with?
Jack Harlow, Lucki, Curren$y, and Larry June.
Q.) Who produces your music?
I work with a lot of underground young producers from the south. If not them, I have a quartet from SIC music. Producers from Texas, Brazil & Africa.
Q.) Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I see myself sipping Champagne after a long day of creating wealth through my brands and beginning a philanthropy journey. Prayerfully.
Music links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwAEhIUKes&ab_channel=AVANTGARDE
https://open.spotify.com/album/2hyFKNzy8jVlL75tYaQ7sR
https://open.spotify.com/album/3cTBLzeUMsF4nn1WWrkN1u
https://music.apple.com/us/album/ga-feat-retrohawki/1493668138?i=1493668359
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/retrohawki/1474011191
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t9jljPVyYE&ab_channel=AVANTGARDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wQkQXcHEA&ab_channel=AVANTGARDE
Instagram link
https://www.instagram.com/__wehateretro.png/?hl=en
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