With his debut album out in the world now, we had a chat with Youth about its reception so far, how Notts\u00a0influenced the songs, plus the local artists he’s really into at the minute.<\/p>\n
How have you found the reception for your album so far? And it felt right for you? Your music is clearly heavily influenced by Notts, the places and the people, was that a conscious decision or did it come about quite naturally? The album is a punchy ride, done in just under half an hour; how long did it actually take to write and record it?
\n<\/b>Great! It\u2019s the first project that I\u2019ve like properly done – I\u2019m used to like copying the CDs myself and that, and this is the first time that I’ve gone for spending quite a lot of money on the packaging and making it look and sound good. I was kind of questioning whether it was worth because I’ve never spent money on it before. But yeah, I\u2019m really happy with the reception. I think a lot of people quite like that I\u2019m going down Hip-Hop now cause I haven\u2019t really done Hip-Hop tunes before. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Yeah, to be honest, I\u2019ve been quite strictly Grime and I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019ve been quite stubborn, and when I was younger, I used to rap up Grime and then I did something called Storyteller on<\/span> JDZ Media<\/strong><\/a> and that was the first ever Hip-Hop verse I ever wrote, so yeah. I think the Hip-Hop tunes have actually had a better reception than the Grime ones really.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Nah, I\u2019m just like the most diehard Nottingham person there ever was. I set up a page recently called \u201cNottsman<\/a>\u2019 and I\u2019ve just been sharing loads of old videos of <\/span>Notts MC’s.\u00a0<\/b>So really, Nottingham is my heart and soul.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>It\u2019s a funny one because it\u2019s kind of put together a bit scrappily. Some of the tracks on it were never even meant to be part of an album, they were just solo tracks that I\u2019d written, and then it got to the point where I thought \u201cshall I record an album?\u201d I went, \u201calright, I have one Hip-Hop track and three Grime tracks. Let\u2019s do another two Grime tracks, another four Hip-Hop ones and make a ten track album.\u201d It was a working progress over years and years, I feel like I\u2019m kind of working back on myself. I wrote <\/span>\u2018Drops\u2019<\/span><\/i> … must\u2019ve been about 6\/7 years ago, then the <\/span>SCORZAYZEE<\/b><\/a> track was written really recently.<\/span> \u2018Little Man\u2019<\/span><\/i>, that\u2019s another one, that was written years and years ago. So yeah, it was kind of put together at random really. <\/span><\/p>\n