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DU’s Exclusive Interview With Armond

armond”closer to the dream”i recently got the opportunity to sit down due to the fact that an upper-class evaluation with one of my favorite independent emcees: epidemic aka armond. over the prior several years, dude has been dropping nothing but characteristic knowledgeable-hop. the st. louis native has had plenty of life experiences which are clearly evident completely his outrageously intimate and introspective rhymes that both captivate and inspire…a lost mastery long extinct in today’s mainstream saturated game. understand on below looking for the full interview with armond as we take an exclusive look at man and the music…jv: first unlikely, thanks for captivating the time out to do this. notwithstanding those who aren’t unrestrained with you and your music, why don’t you introduce yourself.armond: no problem, i rise the opportunity. my name is armond, most know me as pestilence or demic but i dropped that rank wide 5 months ago. i’m from stl but i’ve lived all over the world, experienced everything under the bake and its marked in my music.no doubt. your experiences are definitely a focal point in your music, it seems like you’ve gone through a assortment, yet you’re still quite young. how long have you been rapping for?i wrote my 1st poem in ‘91, i was 7. started performing @ malls and set talent shows @ 8. and i wrote my 1st structured song @ 10. i give someone the brush-off it down for a while, and when a friend of mine committed suicide my senior year of high clique, i picked it back upso you’ve definitely been at it for awhile. it seems sort the best emcees started making music as a kind of therapya progressing to cope with their personal battle. is that something you can relate to as an artist?you have to comprehend to the people. everybody isn’t a thug, everybody isn’t fecund, and everybody doesn’t have 10 strange girls at their disposal. that represents a small divide of our population. i have a mate and a daughter, everytime i do something, i typify them. i’m a christian, the whole shooting match i do represents christ. i utilized to make music that was lone theraputic to myself, but when you get people telling you “hey i went throughout the done thing too, and i’m glad i’m not alone” or “your music helped me get through this issue”, you see its much bigger than valid you and your surroundings. i try to talk about issues that are associated to my generation but everybody else seems to lay certainthings on the backburner. its the only way we can speechless ourselves, is to deal with life candidly…wait, is that a word?? lol…haha…i think so. lemme grab my scrabble dictionary right quicklol!!!! google is your friend.haha true story. but i hear you with the theraputic outlook of music. it certainly helps that your music is relatable on a tot up of different levels…moreso than most other hip-hop released nowadays. regardless though, there’s also a lot of passion for the culture that comes finished with in your music. when did you first be destroyed in love with hip-hop?yeah man, its a love/hate relationship. every now i give up on it and then sick discover some new swill and afflicted be favourable back into it. i grew up on onto-hop, my cousin used to live with us, he had a an infinity of big daddy kane, ll, krs-one, etc, personally i fell in take when i got kool moe dee- adeptness is king first dropped, i wore that seal out. lotta fertility boys too…haha it was all with reference to the flabbiness boys back in the day. i’m a big nut of bdk myself, his whole persona and swagger really paved the way for most of today’s mainstream artists. just have a weakness for kool moe dee’s “knowledge” personifies what he was all about, if someone was to keep one’s ears open to well-deserved song of your tracks, which individual do you think is the best representation of you as an artist?definitely “closer”…everybody’s got some type of flight of fancy they pine for to get closer to. my goal is to prove and get everybody i can to a next supine within themselves. and that song personifies everything i stand for musically. resolve i be heard in today’s exchange? am i on the right path? can i attack it to the next level? i might not be there today, but everyday i’m getting “closer to my dreams”.wow…it’s non compos mentis you allusion “closer”. my next question was heedless of that alley. that joint was hands down my favorite track of 2006. period. i still get goosebumps listening to it and i must’ve played that track for every single individual who stepped foot in my machine that year. and …

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