HDBeenDope, Roc Nation’s Newest Talent #shorts
SOHH had the chance to catch up with introspective rapper @HDBEENDOPE who was recently signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation family. Here’s the scoop on HD and what his signing means to hip-hop.
Transcript
00:00 It's just the natural journey of trying to be an artist in America, you know what I'm
00:05 saying?
00:06 I feel like, being an artist, like, okay, making art is one thing, you're going to do
00:11 that because you fuck with it, you love it, right?
00:14 But the journey is like the pursuit, that's the thing that's going to cause you to get
00:19 frustrated.
00:20 Because it's like, if you didn't care about trying to make money from this shit, or anything
00:24 like that, you wouldn't really be that frustrated.
00:26 Because it's just like, damn, I don't got enough time, or people going, fuck with it,
00:30 the way...
00:31 It's all of that shit.
00:32 But it's like, that's just the pursuit.
00:34 So in the pursuit, it comes with a lot of, hey, you everywhere.
00:39 Sometimes it's like, all right, well, I got to go out and go through this, you feel me?
00:42 There was a time that I deviated from music.
00:45 I was shooting videos, just making bread, you feel me?
00:49 I was doing what I had to do to just put some bread in my pocket.
00:53 But that's what comes with figuring out this artist shit.