{"id":3198,"date":"2014-02-06T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-02-06T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:48:03","slug":"mississippi-artist-slimm-pusha-discusses-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2014\/02\/06\/mississippi-artist-slimm-pusha-discusses-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi artist Slimm Pusha discusses new music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mark Braboy
\n<\/strong>News Editor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A rising star of the Mississippi hip-hop scene, Slimm Pusha, has had a spectacular 2013 with the release of \u201cDavyid Blaine: Above the Below\u201d and his first nationally televised appearance on MTV Jams. This month, Pusha releases a new album on iTunes entitled \u201cHennessi: A Very Special Combaq\u201d. In this one on one interview with the budding artist, we talk about not only his album, but his new found success and being an independent artist representing Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: How has 2013 been for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha:<\/strong> Man, 2013 was a very good year. Especially at the end of it, I think I\u2019m more proud of that year than anything. Well actually the whole year man, I dropped a project \u201cDayvid Blaine\u201d at the beginning of the year in February and kind of let it just play out for the whole entire year. I had a couple records played on Shade45 on Sway\u2019s radio station, then I ended up in New York on MTV at the end of the year, so 2013 was pretty good.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: How would you describe this point in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha:<\/strong> Well right now, I\u2019m on the radar. I\u2019m definitely on the national radar right now, so I happen to approach situations a little bit differently than I would in 2013. \u201cHennessi,\u201d is just really influenced by the actual liquor Hennessy. It\u2019s completely different than \u201cDayvid Blaine,\u201d you know, \u201cDavyid Blaine\u201d I was a little bit more conscious with it and it was a little bit more mellow. \u201cHennessi\u201d it just turns the volume up to the situation a little bit more.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: You said that you came up with the title based on the actual liquor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha: <\/strong>Right. \u201cHennessi\u201d, the whole concept of it is a million things you can think about and can\u2019t talk about when you\u2019re intoxicated, you don\u2019t care about the backlash or feedback that you get from it. The whole time I was creating the project, I was actually drinking Hennessy. It\u2019s really influenced by the intoxicating feeling off drinking that brown liquor.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: Based on Birdman\u2019s co-sign he gave you, would you be willing to sign to Cash Money sometime in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha:<\/strong> Pretty much, depending on what Baby is doing man. Baby is a real busy man and I know he signed a whole lot of artists who never really get off the ship. For the most part, if he\u2019s talking right and like I said, we\u2019ll be with a record label and if he can provide the right things I need right now, then yeah, I\u2019d be down to do that.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: Do you think there is a stigma against Mississippi artists?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha:<\/strong> I\u2019m not sure, but ever since the blues era\u2014I guess once that era was done and over with they went into another form of music. I don\u2019t know what it was or what happened in those times that made people not really want to deal with Mississippi, but Mississippi has to work a whole lot harder than any other state to get recognized…. So you\u2019re going to have to work extremely hard to shine a light on Mississippi [because] it\u2019s not well known for what you want it to be known for.<\/p>\n

Mark Braboy: What advice would you give to up and coming artist coming out of Jackson State?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slimm Pusha:<\/strong> First thing first, if you\u2019re coming out of college and trying to go where I\u2019ve gone, you need to make sure this is exactly what you want to do before you even resign. You need to know if this is exactly what you want to do, because it\u2019s full of sacrifice. Any young artist that\u2019s coming up, I always tell them to be prepared to sacrifice it all to get everything that you want. You\u2019re not going to be able to sacrifice a little bit because you\u2019re gonna get a little bit. If you sacrifice it all, you\u2019re gonna get it all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Braboy News Editor\u00a0 A rising star of the Mississippi hip-hop scene, Slimm Pusha, has had a spectacular 2013 with the release of \u201cDavyid Blaine: Above the Below\u201d and his first nationally televised appearance on MTV Jams. This month, Pusha releases a new album on iTunes entitled \u201cHennessi: A Very Special Combaq\u201d. In this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}