Exclusive Interview: Kenwood Kendall

[alvin jackson]

Q: What is your name and what city do you rep?

A: Nap, Naptown, Indianapolis, however they want to put it

Q: What’s unique about you and your music?

A: I’m different, my music different, ion sound like nobody. Swag different, I drip without da ice.. Wordplay... I’m coming from somewhere not to many ppl know nothing about.

Q: When did you realize you were going to make music professionally?

A: I’m the type of person, when I do something, I’m all in. I been dabbling in it for years, but once I seen certain ppl making it happen, I told myself, I can do this shit.... so I’m all in. Plus, this one of the only careers you can do what the fuck you want forever...

Q: What type of music do you listen to?

A: I listen to all kinds of music. You ain’t go catch me riding down the street banging it type shit, but listen to everything but heavy metal type shit. If it’s coo an making sense, I listen to it. People don’t listen to different type of music cause they can’t understand it.. mostly different terminology, but I be on all kinda shit

Q: Who, to you, is the most undervalued artist?

A: Easy.... Me.... Honestly the few people I felt like that about , really eating now, I mean really really eating. Y’all see em everywhere I see em. But this bout me right now, ha ha. Kenwood Kendall my dude!

Q: How do you prepare for your performances?

A: I can tell you all kinda shit I try to do, but for real for real, when it’s time to perform, I jus go... No matter how I feel when I’m
Bout to do it, once I grab a mic or step foot on a stage type shit, shoot a video type shit, a whole different feeling come over me, an I jus go...

Q: What ignites your ( song ) writing flow?

A: It could be anything, I might be riding down the street thinking, or just did some shit or seen some shit , an jus think bout a couple bars, an it’s on from there. If I’m in da studio, I jus go off how I’m feeling..

Q: What do you do when you don’t do music ( creative or otherwise ) an that you are passionate about?

A: They can’t find me cause I’m lost in da music.. like weezy said... Music is what I’m doing right now, I got a whole lot of music going on. Plus being the best man I can be, all the way solid... Weather it’s being a good daddy, man, in these streets, in business, staying solid. Gotta few lil Business situations going on, but it’s music right now. Thinking heavy bout some movie type shit

Q: Success to you is ...

A: Success to me come in all kinda different forms. I feel like anything you put your mind to and succeed, it’s a success... Graduating high school is a success, going to college is a success.. If you came from nothing and got a lil of something, you a success.. It’s different strokes for different folks tho. Only you as a individual know what you want, and it’s up to you to succeed on making it happen.... Me personally, I kno Success come in all kinda shapes forms and fashions...

Q: What do you wish you were told when you first started rapping that you think would help artist starting out?

A: They told me it was a lot of fluck shit lol, but they ain’t elaborate on the kind of fluck shit lol. Next thing I kno, I got people telling me , I can’t bring this street shit to the rap game lol. But keeping it 100. I ran around spending a lot of money wit local djs... key word local, no outlets what so ever. But I come from
A place where it ain’t no big scene like that anyway. I ain’t never wanted to be just another local hot nigga. So I told myself, from now on, I want my money to go viral. Meaning, everything I do , I want the world to be able to ,at least be able to find it. It’s true, it ain’t where you from its where you at.... if it ain’t popping where you at, reach out and do business where it is...

Q: Any upcoming projects?

A: ion kno where to start... I few thangs lined up.. got a nice remix I’m Bout to hit y’all wit, ain’t bout to name drop ,but it’s onna way. Got a best of Kenwood Kendall onna way, few various artist mix’s onna way. Got the best of trapmania dropping any day now... Trapmania 3 onna way. I’m jus leave y’all wit that right now.. Working..

Q: Where do we find your music/ music project?

A: On all music outlets.. Trapmania.net is where you can find music, new music, videos, interviews etc. Trapmania app onna way, real soon.. all social media is @kenwoodkendall @slappinbacon @trapmania Or hit google lol