Exposed Vocals just interviewed Young Trill Mafia – talks about investing in rapping and not street life
How did you hear about Exposed Vocals? What made you decide to sign up?
– We (Young Trill Mafia) heard about Exposed Vocals Thru Twitter, What Made Us Sign up was because we saw that expose vocals does not just support musicians all over the world but they support UNSIGNED artists giving them a lead way into the music world .
So tell us your story. Where did you grow up? What made you decide to become an artist?
Young Trill mafia Grew Up In The Hoods Of Fort Pierce Florida (772) Being that our town is so small and has #1 murder rate in the treasure coast Young Trill Mafia Formed as a outlet to all these vigorous crimes instead of turning to the street life Myself (Trilla-K and Keelo Da Pound) invested our time and energy into rapping and making music.
How did you come up with that name? What was your inspiration behind it?
Young Trill Mafia came about jus by us combining our life and where we come from. for ex. we are young (both 20) Trill Mafia ( its just a lifestyle we live as of being true to ourselves and REAL)
What do you think about online music sharing? Do you ever give your music away for free? Why?
Online music sharing is a good thing, i mean it does expose alot of our music to people worldwide, and yes we do let people download our music for free.
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?
All We Can Tell Them Is To Dedicate themselves because hard work DOES pay off , and Just Promo promo promo!
Do you ever make mistakes during performances? How do you handle that?
Honestly, All the shows we have done so far we haven’t had a mistake yet, not to say we are perfect but the fact of the matter is we go onstage AS IS! we dont practice we jus DO IT! and enjoy it as well.
Do you tour? Anything interesting happen on tour that you think our readers would enjoy hearing about?
Yes We’ve Toured Our surrounding areas such as West Palm, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa we can recall opening up for Ice Berg Billion and that show was really cool we got to met him and young jeezy. they are pretty chill .
Where do you usually gather songwriting inspiration? What is your usual songwriting process?
Our Inspiration comes from various artists even Unsigned artists, we really dont go online looking for things sometimes its already installed in our minds on what instrumental to use or how we go about making hooks.
Do you have a band website? Do you have a Facebook or Twitter? Do you use Bandcamp, Spotify, ExposedVocals or SoundCloud to share your music?
Yes, we do. You guys can check us out at Reverbnation.com/ytmyoungtrill or Reverbnation.com/youngtrillmafia , Soundcloud and youtube.com/youngtrillmafia find us on twitter @YTMYoungTrill and @Trillak_300 We DO FOLLOW BACK!
What are some really embarrassing songs that we might find on your mp3 player?
Ahaha, a lil bit of Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift and Oh Yeah dont tell anyone that growing up in the hood u cant listen to the beebs. lol
If you were given half a million dollars and a year off, what would you do? How would you spend it?
Family First! We Would Honestly Get Our Families Right, then put most of the money towards our music careers such as features and budgets.
Any planned studio upgrades? What are you working with now?
Pro Tools 10 is a very good program the quality is 100x better.!
How do you find ways to promote your music? What works best for you?
Best ways we promote our music is thru all social outlets, Contacts and websites. Twitter is one of the top websites we use because it gives us opportunity to share music to millions.
If you could perform anywhere and with any artists (Dead or Alive) where and who would it be with? Why?
top five hands down would be Drake, Tupac, Chief Keef, Jay-z,and Rihanna…honestly we would perform ANYWHERE with these artist because any place they perform they bring the city out!
So, what’s next? Any new upcoming projects that you want to talk about?
Yes Yes YES! we are currently working on our 3rd mixtape entitled “LIFE OF THE PARTY” we have 20 songs and two bonus tracks.. be on the look out for it on Reverbnation.com/youngtrillmafia !
If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?
must likely in college… TrillaK would be playing basketball and Keelo Da Pound Is a BEAST with the football.
Do you remember buying your first album? Who was it? What was going through your head?
yes i do, my first album i paid for EVER was chief keef ‘s “Finally Rich” album when it dropped, i mean i was excited because i love love love Sosaaaa lol
How do you juggle the rest of your responsibilities while trying to stay ahead in your music life?
i mean its hard…. it really is because balancing daily life with music life it could get a lil difficult i mean we still go thru normal life conflicts from family to jobs, so yeah it could get a lil tiring however we just somehow pray and get thru it.
What should fans look forward too for the rest of 2013 and beyond?
right now like we said before, 2013 #LifeOfTheParty Mixtape will be sewed Up by the begining of September thats our only focus right now and you know just promotions and getting our faces out there more we want the world to be like YOUNG TRILL MAFIA IS THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE RAP GAME. and we gone deliver so be on the look out and remeber the name Young Trill Mafia (#YTM) Keelo Da Pound and Trilla K is comming World! Thanks
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