Enter the GREEKGOD: A rising icon and self proclaimed pop star

GREEKGOD, aka Silkylavender, aka Yung Lorenzo, aka DJ Rhuzu is a rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, fashion designer, stylist and, most importantly, a pop star who hails from the small suburb of Hazeldean in Philippi. We recently had an opportunity to sit down with this rising icon and this is how it went:

HJ:                  What inspires your sound?

GREEKGOD:      Just listening to and appreciating different kinds of music, you know. I’ll take cues from whatever music I’m enjoying, and combine all of those different influences to make whatever the fuck you call what I do lol. I don’t even know how to describe my music.

HJ:                  Who do you look up to musically?

GREEKGOD:      As I said before, a lot of different music inspires my sound. I’ve gotten compared to everyone from Kendrick Lamar to fucking Petite Noir (which I still find weird lol). But the most prominent influence on other people’s ears, as well as my own, is probably Kid Cudi. And he definitely is a huge inspiration.

HJ:                  You recently unveiled your visuals for “WHORE ISLAND”. It’s a very dark video, what inspired it?

GREEKGOD:      I wanted the video to be a surrealistic piece. It was supposed to come out even weirder than what came out actually, just that we couldn’t get all the resources we needed for the video. What I tried to achieve was a “haunted” house party. Like you know how niggas always throw house parties in their videos and a nice pool and shit and lots of people having fun in it? I wanted to WHORE ISLAND to sort of be the anti-house party: the pool is water-less, there’s hardly anyone in the whole house, and niggas are fucking dying lol.

HJ:                  “Mzoli Funk” is one of the hottest tracks on the streets right now, can you tell us more about this song.

GREEKGOD:      “Mzoli Funk” is actually about two years old man. It was supposed to be on </3 EP (my first solo project), and it was originally just titled “Mzoli” ‘til I made the new beat for it. The original beat was waaaaay different. It was moreso some dark trap shit, which was the sound I was into at the time. But then my laptop got mugged, so I lost all my material. But I had the song on my mind all the time, so when I got a new laptop, I made a completely different beat, which is the one you hear today. I was listening to a lot of Funk and Bacardi house, like Mujava and shit. That’s why the new beat sounds the way it does now. And then yeah, I just kept it in the vaults. I kept that song till I knew the time is right. I know in my heart that that song is the one.

HJ:                  Finally, where do you see yourself in the next five to ten years with your career?

GREEKGOD:      Man I hate this question lol, cause I’m not really someone that plans for the future like that. I just like to let everything flow the way it’s supposed to go, but obviously, the future is determined by what I’m doing right now. And I’m doing everything necessary right now, planting all the seeds and shit. If these seeds grow into the beautiful flowers I’m grooming them to be, then I’ll be the biggest artist in Africa in 5 years time. If not biggest, I’ll definitely be the most influential. And not just in music, but in fashion too.

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