Rapper Kydd Jones desires you to know that he’s at all times telling his reality. The Texas-born rapper/singer/producer tells SPIN at SXSW that his music is funneled from probably the most genuine model of himself.
“So far as integrity [goes], I at all times simply take into consideration, ‘What’s my son gonna assume when he listens to [my music]?’” Jones says. “Will he have the ability to perceive the context or the mediums that I’m making an attempt to painting by means of the music that I’m writing at the moment? I attempt to make it broad, however I at all times give it that Kydd really feel that’s simply as uncooked as will be.”
Having grown up listening to Nas along with his dad, Jones was impressed by the rapper’s articulate and expressive lyrics. (He tells SPIN that he remembers having to search for a few of the huge phrases Nas used.) That music him to discover the facility of phrases—and in his personal lyrics, Jones strives to embed a wide-reaching however private message.
“In my present, I actually like to attach with individuals within the crowd and look of their eyes and discover these individuals which can be gonna go house and be like, ‘I’m taking Kydd house with me’—simply from the power off the stage and the messages and the phrases which can be being mentioned and being felt,” he says. “I simply need individuals to be themselves, dream extra, and simply be open-minded.”
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