Lo smooth is an artist who was born and raise in the downtown fort green section of bklyn. Lo smooth grew up with a purto rican mother and black father which kinda made him diverse back then cause in my hood u was either black or spanish back then. Lo smooth grew up listening to hiphop since 8years old and immediately knew he wanted to be a rapper espically since rappers like biggie smalls, Foxy brown, was from the neighborhood. Coming up in brooklyn u either wanted to play ball or rap and lo smooth choose rap. Growing up in the projects around hustlers, killers, thiefs was normal for lo smooth and taught him quick about the streets. Growing up in a spanish house hold with his grandmother, grandfather, mother, cousins etc 3bedroom apt with about 12 people back then seems rough but Lo smooth mother as a single parent always did for lo smooth and always made sure he was fresh and neat for school. Lo smooth first time in the studio he was 15 and that's all it took for him to take it serious. At 16 lo smooth dropped outta of high school to hustle crack cocaine and to pursue music and which he actually had meetings back then that never feel threw.at 19 lo smooth cousin goosey had got locked and sentence to 8years in the feds for drug etc charges and it messed lo smooth up bad cause lo smooth was the one who hid him out for 6months, and from there lo smooth promised himself and cousin goosey by time he come home he will have something to look foward to. By time lo smooth was 21 he started to appear on numerous of mixtapes in the nyc area and started doing a lot of shows in nyc which started to get his name out there rapidly. In 2009 lo smooth shot his first video with director mills miller in brooklyn and from there he really started getting notice, all the sites and local tv shows in ny was picking it up. Lo smooth 2nd video director by mills miller feat rapper kia shine from mephis which landed on mtv,vh1,mtvu, thisis50 and every other major site and from there any video lo smooth has dropped landed on most of every major website on the net, local channels in nyc, and record on numerous of mixtapes. At this time lo smooth is getting a lot of love from power 105.1fm in ny and still getting love from major websites,djs, etc which forced him to start his own company smoothgroove records, and is in talk with labels wanted him to sign him but lo smooth is not starving and rufuse to be sign as a slave or 360 deal, beside he got this far on his own with help from his team smoothgroove. Lo smooth is destined to be one of the greatest to this new generation and first and formost a business man besides he always been a hustler.
1. When did you first fall in love with Hip Hop? When did the point in your life come when you said, "this is what I want to do!"
I first fell in love with hiphop around 1992. When biggie smalls came out with juicy and the video was shot in my neighborhood I knew this is what I wanted to do.
2. How happy are you on your success of the "Blame it on the game" video?
I'm very content with blame it on the game it was on worldstarhiphop,thisis50 etc and it was actually the first record that got me on power 105.1fm in ny.
3. What is the hip hop scene in Brooklyn like ? Is the style any different from Queens or Harlem; or any other boroughs?
The hiphop scene in bklyn is very raw and direct. This is the home of biggie, jay-z etc. The content is the same as any borrough cause we all nyc but the style always been very different. Example jay-z and nas both great artist, content kinda the same but style and flow and wordplay very different etc.
4. How did you end up linking with Chansz for Some how?
chansz actually followed me on twitter and I checked her music out and thought she was very dope and different.
5. Where were you when you 1st heard it on the radio?
I was actually in the crib chilling that night.
6. Your videos are very nicely put together! (my fav is "THE REALEST") How do you come up with the concepts for your videos and how you want them to be shot?
Appreciate that, 99 percent of the time i come up with the concept of the videos, cause they my records and I kno the vision I will like to see, so usually at the last min lol I just sitdown listen to the record and brainstorm. And of course I ask my people for they input.
7. If you could work with any music producer, who would it be?
At this point of time I will like to do something with pharell......
8. Where do you see Hip Hop in the next 10 years?
In the next 10years I see hiphop being more independet as far as artist goes, and not dependent on the majors. Hiphop is going to blossom as the new school rappers appear.
9. For someone who has never heard your music before, what can they expect to hear?
They can expect the magic they heard wen they first came across biggie, jay-z, 2pac, scarface, nas etc. I'm the leader of the new school.
10. Do you have any new releases coming soon?
yes in march ima drop my mixtape called foreve1r gold hosted by power 105.1fm own jovonn.
11. Where / how can your fans get in contact with you?
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