Deadman Rashaun Perspective on Get With You

To be one the Top 10 GREATEST RAPPERS to do it! PERIOD!!

I LOVE music and I love people. I want to combine as many people as God will allow to hear my music and if that happens, I'll be good with that. Real talk.

Stage name is Deadman Rashaun. Gov't name is Duane Williams.

im a two-time IMA and BET nominated indie artist.

I was raised by women.  There wasn't many male figures in my life, growing up. 
I learned how to talk to women and get in touch with their feelings and this song is key to doing that.

I was born into music. My mother wrote songs for gospel groups down south, and I quickly followed suit. I started writing music around 6 or 7 years old.

I knew I had what it took at a young age because I was always singing and dancing in school and church, but it had to be around age 15 where I truly figured out that I could actually do this for a living.

"Get with you" is a song you can dance to, so you can add it to dance, hip hop, urban and contemporary music genres. It won't disappoint you. 

I'm nicknamed The Thousand Style Emcee, so when you press play on my music, you'll always hear something new. I've over 100 songs out and literally every song is different. 

I'm a real life artist. I write about life from falling in love to being cheated on to the one doing the cheating. I write about being bummed out to getting hated on by your own friends. I'm an open book when it comes to music.

Real talk, I can tour with nearly anyone because I've so many different songs. I can tour with Snoop Dogg because I've over 10 west coast style songs out. I can tour with Ludacris or Boosie because I've all types of trap songs. I can tour with Bernie Man or Shaggy because I've plenty of reggae songs and I'm from the east coast, so any East coast rapper, I can tour with. 

I've three favorite artists. Jay-Z, 2Pac and Queen Latifah. All three of them have some of the most influential music you'll ever hear.

Rap styles are elite, great music to vibe to and all three will keep your head bobbing.

I'd describe my style of music as "riding music." 
if you like to drive, I'm the perfect artist to listen to.

That's simple. New Edition. Growing up, you couldn't TELL ME I wasn't Ralph Tresvant! 
But once my voice started to deepen, I had to cut that short. 

My favorite song from me would probably be "Going Nowhere " because I wrote it about my dad. He was never there so I wrote about it. I know there's plenty of people that's going thru that so I wrote about my own experience.

Ah man. I'd have to say 2Pac, Angela Winbush and New Edition. 
I can literally combine those three catalogs together and be good.

That's a question that you can't answer because you'd have to be there to witness it. Rapper wise tho, I'd say me on stage with KRS-ONE and Masta Ace. If you've never seen those two emcees rock a stage, do yourself a favor and attend the next show they have close to you. R&B, it'd have to be New Edition. Like I said earlier, I thought I was Ralph Tresvant so if i ever get the opportunity to rock with them, it'd be one my biggest highlights.

My dream collab is crazy because you'd never get it if I didn't tell you. I'd love to collab on a song with Jay-Z, Queen Latifah and Angela Winbush singing the chorus and have the song produced by E A Ski.

I'd like for people to feel exactly how they'd think the song is supposed to make em feel. 
As an artist, you're kinda like a listener's confidant, friend, mentor and sometimes therapist, so however that particular song is supposed to hit em, you want it to do so.

Simple. Real...Influential..Emcee.

Before Covid, it was performing on stage but now, I'm engaged a lot with people on Instagram and I'm starting to get more shine now on TikTok but that's a slow go but I'm chugging along with it. 
Gotta get those followers up on TikTok.

Oh it's changed a lot after Covid.  I danced, sang and rapped but now, I concentrate mainly on rapping and writing. 
I had a medical incident that messed my right leg up on the inside so I can't get my Chris Brown on like I used to but I can still do a lil something. 

One night after we performed at a show called The Big Apple in Eastern N.C., a man came up to me and said he came to see one last show before he killed his family and himself. He told my crew and I this while sitting at the bar. He'd lost his job 5 weeks prior and was lying to his wife about it but his money had ran out and he had to come clean. He had a 9 mm on him and my manager talked to the club owner and a few of his guys and they helped him get a job later that week. 
That night, we each gave him $500 and he went home with $3,500 to get him back in his feet.

Success is defined differently by each person. 
As far as myself, I'm successful. God has blessed me to go #1 on iTunes, and top 20 three times on billboard. I've songs in movies like " Titration (Brenner's rap) in the Netflix movie Pain Hustlers and I've songs with big artists like Rick Ross on my song called "Miss Me" and " Get with you" featuring Reks. I'm now a Recording Academy (Grammy) member so I've nothing but glory to God for blessing me like he's done.

I'm ALREADY a game changer because EVERYTHING I've accomplished in music, I've done INDEPENDENTLY. I've amassed things many signed artists haven't done. 
I've Three Top 5 iTunes singles, Three Too 20 billboard singles, two songs on movie soundtracks, I've been in a movie and I've been nominated at the IMA's and BET awards. All on my own. No industry help so yeah, I consider myself a game changer.

An artist is literally the most influential person in a person's life especially a teenager. 
If Taylor Swift, Busta Rhymes or Eminem says stay in school or what's the point of school, that teenager is gonna probably follow what they said. As a young man, 2Pac literally taught me how to be a man and Queen Latifah an Jay-Z taught me how to get the most out of life. Even more than my mom and I'm sad to say that but in most folk's lives, that's just how it is, that's why I watch what I write because music is so influential.

The city is mine by Jay-Z. 
I heard that song and as he told the world how he became to be who he is and why he deemed the city of New York his, it made me look at my life differently because as an artist, I can be great to millions but to be able to say the city is mine, that's a powerful statement.

Years ago, my then manager had me perform a song he wrote and the crowd did NOT like it at ALL! That was first a yes only time i was ever booed on stage. Needless to say, I learned a lesson from that episode.

I've only two things. They both should've already been done. FIRST, I'd have FM radio play ALL FORMS of Hip Hop, not just WAP rap. In the 80's & 90's, you heard west coast, east coast, trap, booty music, reggae and conscious rap. Now it's just wap and that's not cool. 
SECONDLY, I'd have The Grammys have multiple genres in the hip hop category. 
Pop has multiple categories like Pop, K-Pop, Alternative Pop and Rick has Rock, Soft Rock, Heavy Metal, Acid Rock, and contemporary Rock. Rap just has Rap. That's it & that's NOT fair. 

I've been a truck driver and a political analyst.

I've always wanted to help artists around the world better themselves financially with their crafts. I've an idea on how to do just that but I'm not gonna say until I'm able to do it myself. 

I'm twice divorced because of music but it's something I just have to deal with. This business is just like OTR trucking or being in the military. You're gone a LOT and at some point, you're significant other may get tired of being without you and move on. Both my divorces were amicable and I never received nor gave grief from the divorces. They were what they were. 
idk how to counteract that. If you down you down and if you're not, well it's have a nice life.

With every song I write, it gets me more and more in-tuned to people and how our lives constantly evolve. You can't be stagnant. You have to keep pushing. 

My favorite work of art would have to be my Love, Legacy and Loot album. 
It's my "No-Skips" album. 

2Pac, Jay-Z and Ludacris

Never take anyone for granted. I appreciate every stream, download, like and comment I get from supporters. You have to remember, people don't HAVE to press play on your music so always show love to your supporters for doing so.

Music is a God given talent he gave me thru my mother. I'm gonna do music until I stop breathing and even afterwards, my family will have plenty of my music to release because I've way more music to release than I actually can.