NC’s own Rain is back with his first song release of 2011! This new track is entitled “Still Feel High.” Be on the look out for his new street album “The Magic Hour” Pt. 2 coming soon.
Rain never fails to disappoint – dude can spit on any kind of track and just kill it… not sure who produced this one, but we’ll update yall soon.
THEOVUN:
You’re from North Carolina, tell us a little bit about what it’s like
RAIN:
It’s cool, I’m from Fayetteville, we got an army base, we got 30strip clubs on 1 block and church on the corner, it’s home.
THEOVUN:
North Carolina seems to be a very special place on the music scene– you got rap acts like Petey Pablo and then you have crews like the Justus League.
RAIN:
Yeah, when it comes to music everybody does different music, it’s weird–We’re in the middle, of the state and kind of in the middle on the coast, so you have 1/2 who are influenced by that Southern rap and 1/2 that are influenced by that New York music. We don’t have really have an identity – really though, it depends on who you ask – my answer is: it’s diverse
THEOVUN:
So tell us about the transition between NC and NYC?
RAIN:
[I] Moved up here [New York] when i was 15, I dropped out of school – I already knew what I wanted to do. I threw all my clothes in a garbage bag and came up on a Greyhound. My father is from the Bronx, and my mother is from Brooklyn, so I already been familiar with the city. I pressed up some CDs and wrote my number on em and just started handing em out.
THEOVUN:
Wooow determination, so speaking of CDs about how many mixtapes have your released?
RAIN:
A lot! you Got obviously American Dreamin’ Part I, Only In America, Another Day Another Dollar, Highly Anticipated and a lot of others.
THEOVUN:
So talkin about this current mixtape – American Dreaming Part II, the stand outs on this tape would have to be “Lady in the Red Dress” and “Buried With a Secret”. It takes a certain caliber of skill to be able to tell a story and it takes even more skill to deliver them as fluid as you did, tell us a little about these tracks.
RAIN:
For, “Buried With a Secret”, I recorded that track for the tape first. Imma be honest I don’t know where that came from. *Laughs* Someone sent me the beat and the name of the beat was “buried with a secret”. I saw that and just ran with it. So it started with a young kid whose father was beating on his mother- it shows how the father winds up killing his mother and then he [the son] winds up getting killed before he can tell anyone the story. As I was writing it, I had to pull myself out from that. It was really hard for me to make it, I started with the tv going and the radio and it fucked it up and so I remember just going back and listening to all of my favorite albums, and everything like Life After Death, It Was Written, and got to I Am and I heard that joint – “Undying Love” [by Nas] with the story – I was thinking – I need to do something like that!!
