Exclusive Interview With Upcoming Artist Rab Jae

1. What is your name/stage name?

 

Rab Jae. Say it like Rob with an A and Jay with an E.

2. When is your birthday?

December 13, I’m a Sagittarius.

3. Where are you from?

Central well  South Jersey, but I was born in New Brunswick and moved to Upstate NY Rochester when I was like 7.

4. What do you do?

I get ideas and make em sound good. Forreal though besides being an artist and making music I like to cook and draw helps with my creativity and keeps me from getting idea block.

5. How long have you been making music?

Seriously. About 2 years or so.

6. What was your first song/project?

On wax dolo Rab Flow was my first track shout out my guy Spratta Beats, I laid it down around the beginning of the pandemic. I dropped a few since then no official projects yet, but one on the way.

7. Who’s your inspiration?

Really, I inspire myself. I don’t look to other people for inspiration like that. I like being me so if I do something its because its what I want to do, not cause of someone or something else. My brother was who influenced me to start writing raps because I was young, but deciding to make music, my flow and pen that is all me.

8. What genre of music do you create?

Hip-Hop I rap I rhyme obviously, but I put my sauce on it. I challenge and push myself to see what I’m capable of, but I like having fun and keeping my creativity open so if I’m feeling a specific way for a specific song I’m going to go in the direction of the sound.

9. Do you come up with your video concepts?

Yeah, for sure. I got two videos I’m up to right now. I developed the concepts, wrote the treatments, and I’m handling most of the directing and editing. I prefer to be hands on with all of my ideas from start to finish.

10. What was it like working with  ________

(No Answer)

11. What are some features you have?

I’m not really focused on features right now. I’m still establishing my resume as an artist right now ya know? Honestly I haven’t put myself in in the head space for features yet.

12. What are some features you want to get?

That I would want? A feature from Wayne for sure and Thug that’d be heat.

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

DMX RIP for sure he my top 3.

14. Are you signed to a label?

Nah Independent.

15. Do you want a record deal, a distribution deal, or none?

The business gotta be right, if the business isn’t right I’m not interested,

16. Who are your biggest supporters?

My niece for sure.  she always dead serious be asking me to let her direct a music video or lay down a hook she dope though she be sending me stuff just to sample all the time. She really be motivating me with her attitude she act like im number with this one so I gotta act like I’m number one. And my Mama. She might not always agree with me on something, but she always support me.

17. Where did your name come from?

I always been called Rab and J my last initial, so I just used that and stylized Jae the way it is and I liked it. It made sense to my eye

18. Do you write your own material?

Absolutely I’m very introverted when it comes to a lot of things especially with my artistry. I can’t even record with other people in the room that’s why I taught myself how to engineer and mix my own songs. Besides that, I get a lot of pride from knowing my work is mine and no one can take that from me. If I get stuck on a verse or hook I just come back to it later and start working on something different.

19. Do you create your own music video concepts?

Yeah Ill randomly have music video ideas and concepts pop in my head so I’ll write it down and come back to it expand on it.  Usually if I think of a song that would fit with an idea then I write out a treatment from there. I got a notebook with nothing but music video concepts.

20. What’s your favorite music to listen to?

When I’m not in work mode I listen to a lot of different music everything from Prince, Iggy Pop, Classical, DMX. One of my favorite songs like top 5 is Rocket Man Elton John version, but the Astronauts version with Toro y Moi wavy too. I rock with a lot of his music too.

Links

 

Spotify Artist Page

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7paLMSVVCuGGQB45EqeI21?si=LIPk3VstQWmFzoKsE74dvQ

Apple Artist Page

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/rab-jae/1544035491

Rab Flow on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/5EbpoyQQLtKrcNhegQ8r4D?si=XCNYqIG4QeeuPpDqMdlhrg

Twitter.com/rabjae

Instagram.com/rabjae

Linktree.com/rabjae

Email: rabjaerx@gmail.com

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