Blak Blayk- A Bay Area Artist Worth Knowing

Blak Blayk; Bay Area, California

Q: What is your name/stage name?

A: “The name I was born with is Blake Bernard. My alias is “Blak Blayk”.”

Q: Where are you from?

A: “I was born in Trenton, New Jersey but I’ve been living in the Bay Area, California for most of my life.”

Q: What do you do?

A: “I’m a hip hop lyricist, vocalist, and producer. I create most of the instrumentals in my music, I have collaborated with other producers and created beats with them that I use in my music also.”

Q: How long have you been making music?

A: “Ever since I knew how to write and could comprehend the “rhyming rule” of poetry, I’ve been writing poems/lyrics. I think I started out writing to and creating “remixes” to different mainstream artists at 8 or 9 years old. I’ve always wanted to become a r&b/pop/hip-hop star since around that age too. When I was introduced to hip-hop, I rapped along to Kanye West, 50Cent, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and other artists songs, pretending to be them.”

Q: Who’s your biggest inspiration?

A: “I draw inspiration from many different artists, one’s that have their own style of music. It helps build my confidence to know that other music artists have different styles, yet they have an audience. keeps me focused on my craft. If I have to choose the biggest inspirations, I’d say Kanye West, Travis Scott, and Kid Cudi are my biggest ones.”

Q: What genre of music do you create?

A: “I call my genre of hip-hop “Experimental Introspection: music displaying ideologies about life and self-awareness.”

Q: What was it like working with (collabs?)

A: “I enjoy working with other musical artists if they are on the same frequency and concepts as I am when it comes to music. I look forward to hearing the creativity from the other artists.”

Q: What are some features you have?

A: “I’ve collaborated with an underground hip-hop artist named Cambatta, my close friend King Skye, and a number of different singers.”

Q: What are some features you want to get?

A: “My dream feature would be a track with Travis Scott and/or Kid Cudi on a song that sounds like Travis’s “Owl Pharaoh” style.”

Q: Who’s one person, dead or alive, that you’d want to work with?

A: “Juice Wrld was one artist I wanted to work with eventually (R.I.P.). As for alive? Yeah Travis Scott, and or Kid Cudi.”

Q: Are you signed to a label?

A: “I am a freelance/independent artist at the moment. But my dream label to get signed to would be Kanye West’s Good Music.”

Q: Do you want a record deal, a distribution deal, or none?

A: “Financially, getting signed would be beneficial to the progression of my craft, but I feel as if I don’t have to get signed. I don’t do music solely because of the payout.”

Q: Who are your biggest supporters?

A: “I’ve had support from my family but as far as unrelated support, the biggest support I’ve received is from solid fan of mine. His instagram tag is @g.o.d.s_customarts “

Q: Where did your name come from?

A: “Blak Blayk” is two different variations of my first name “Blake”, and my all-time favorite color is “Black”, so there you go.”

Q: What are you currently working on?

A: “I’m currently working on the 4th installment of my “Not of The Flesh” series. A series diving deep into my consciousness and thoughts about life.”

Q: What is your latest release?

A: “I recently released an EP called “Never Say Always”.”

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