Exposed Vocals just caught an interview with Explicit
Seth Morales (a.k.a. TheRealExplicit) is an Arizona native who grew up around all types of music at a young age. Often, he’d borrow his older brother’s CDs and listen to them until he memorized every lyric and style. At aged 17, Seth began taking his rapping game seriously, and his music was starting to create buzz around his local town. He’d landed spots on the radio, headlined shows, opened up for major artists in the area, and eventually landed a deal with Pure Artistry where he began working on an album. Shortly after, Seth was involved in a traffic accident that left him with a serious back injury that doctors were unable to fix. Seth’s only resort was to take prescribed painkillers. A few years after the accident, Seth’s career continued to spiral downward. During his road tour in California and Nevada, he was going into terrible withdrawals because was unable to refill his pain prescription. A colleague offered him heroine in order to finish the rest of his shows, and Seth’s career took a turn for the worst. He lost touch with his friends and family, Pure Artistry dropped him, and he fell into deep depression, on the brink of suicide. When his life seemed to hit rock-bottom, Seth found help. He was admitted to rehab and changed his life completely around. He got a full-time job as a bartender, became completely focused on his music career, and has continued rising to the top of his game ever since. Seth loves all kinds of music but has a deeper love of hip-hop. He incorporates his his real-life experiences into all of his music.
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Exposed Vocals: So tell us your story. Where did you grow up? What made you decide to become an artist?
Explicit: I grew up in Chandler, Arizona. It’s a really nice city in AZ’s East Valley area, about 15 minutes outta Phoenix. It’s funny you asked this as a 2 part question cause I would actually contribute a great deal of my decision to pursue a career in music to Chandler & my surroundings. The things I saw growing up combined with my family’s natural yearning to be surrounded by music of all genres had produced what you see before you today.
Exposed Vocals: How did you come up with that name? What was your inspiration behind it?
Explicit: I remember exactly when & where I was when I chose my stage name. I was sitting in my 5th period english class at Chandler High School & the teacher’s name was Mrs. Ewing. Her & I used to go back and fourth talking shit to each other jokingly all the time. One time I took it to far (As I often do, just ask anybody who knows me) and she got so pissed at me she had to leave and step out front of the classroom & get a breather for a couple moments, probably to refrain from whipping my little scrawny ass. While she was out there the girl sitting next to me says “Your to Explicit, you should work on that” and I said “Explicit? What the hell is that”, thats when she pointed down to the sheet of paper on her desk, it was the Vocab word’s we needed to study and learn for the week, and “Explicit” was one of them. For whatever reason that stuck with me all the way till getting home and when I looked it up finally the exact definition in Websters dictionary was “Saying what is meant, without holding anything back”. I thought “Well, I have been called worse things” and the rest is history.
Exposed Vocals: What do you think about online music sharing? Do you ever give your music away for free? Why?
Explicit: I think it has it’s benefits, however I also have my issues with how it has changed hip hop & what it takes to establish yourself as a legitimate emcee. For instance, I think its great how easy it has become to not only create quality music, but also be able to share that with the world all within a matter of minutes. That aspect of online music sharing is amazing! On the other hand, I see how it has completely taken the thrill out of printing up a Gazillion flyers with your pals to go and pass out around your city & running into the competition while your out & about & battling to see who really runs shit in town. Meeting other artist’s along the way & maybe running into some chicks who think you are the next Eminem. Thats how it was when I first started rapping. Kids these days will never get to have those memories & will forever be forced to stay glued to there computer chairs, because when their asses aren’t stuck firmly to the seat while recording/mixing new material, they are planted smack down in the same seat promoting & networking. It really is an ALL DAY-EVERY DAY typa hustle. Of course I give my music away for free, in fact… Stop by my Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/explicit480) at any given time & see I allow free DL’s on almost ALL the music I create. The way I see it, people will be able to get your work for free anyhow, I find if I offer free DL’s with a link right above it that gives an option to pay what you would like, (if you would like to at all) people tend to contribute quite often to help a homie out.
Exposed Vocals: Since everyone was a start-up once, can you give any smaller or local bands or artists looking to get gigs and airplay some tips?
Explicit: Dont be afraid to send your music into as many promoters, publications, blogs, etc… as you can. When you do send your ARTWORK in, be a professional about it. Nobody is going to take you seriously if you don’t take yourself seriously enough to show others that this is important to you. This goes for hip hop blogs & promoters as well… Just because your single is about your homies & big booty hoes does not mean you should carry that act on over to the business end of things, you feel me? A little professional courtesy and good manners can go a long way in this business, trust me.
Exposed Vocals: Where do you usually gather songwriting inspiration? What is your usual songwriting process?
Explicit: Inspiration? Honestly, an empty beat gets my wheels turning all by itself, if you add an empty house to that equation I might just mess around & write a whole damn EP right quick! I dont really have a set process, every track is different.
Exposed Vocals: Do you have a band website? What online platforms do you use to share your music?
Explicit: Yezzir… check me out at www.ExplicitRap.com & subscribe to my fan club… We give away all kinds of cool shit to subscribers on the reg! I mainly stick to Soundcloud, FaceBook, Twitter, & Youtube… However I am glad you asked because lately I have been spending a lot of time on a new site for Rappers & Producers called www.RapPad.co, I love the community there & the platform is just incredible. I have accrued a vast amount of TRULLY LOYAL fans from that place, & I’d recommend trying it out to any artist out there trying to catch a break.
Exposed Vocals: If you were given half a million dollars and a year off, what would you do? How would you spend it?
Explicit: Easy, I would start a label, take that time off to work TWICE as hard on my movement, and invest any remaining funds into an artist I truly believed in & who had signed to my team.
Exposed Vocals: How do you find ways to promote your music? What works best for you?
Explicit: Honestly… Producing quality music, at affordable prices or even free of charge, consistently. Those three things are key, alongside having a GREAT graphics guy for cover art (I am currently on the lookout for 1 of these guys… My cover art SUCKS!)
Exposed Vocals: So, what’s next? Any new upcoming projects that you want to talk about?
Explicit: Absolutely… I am confident that my next installment “Bonafide” will be a certified DOPE album that you will love front to back. I have put YEARS into its creation & I stand by my work. I am also going to be dropping a collaboration mixtape I did with the dopest artist I had met over atRapPad.co. That site has so much talent frequenting its forums & music pages daily that I was able to put together a full length, 18 track album/mixtape with the features I did with those, who are well known over there. Keep an eye out for BOTH of these projects aforementioned, they will be available VERY SOON. (No date set on either yet unfortunately)
Exposed Vocals: If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?
Explicit: Drugs.
Exposed Vocals: How do you juggle the rest of your responsibilities while trying to stay ahead in your music life?
Explicit: Easy, I have displayed a complete lack of interest for all else but music related responsibilities & it really pisses a lot of people around me off something fierce. I try not to let it bother me… It’s reeeaaaally tough (< Sarcasm)
Exposed Vocals: What should fans look forward to in 2016?
Explicit: Bright pink hover boards. However if this turns out to be Bullshit stop by my website, I’ll probably have a dope 16 about it!