Odee O Perspective on Pick Up

We are excited to share Odee O's new track "Pick Up"! Our goal at SongBlog is to highlight outstanding new music and give you a peek at the artist’s world behind the music. In this blog we get a chance to sit down with Odee O to learn all about the inspiration, concepts, and creative energy that it took to create and produce "Pick Up". We hope you enjoy and please feel free to ask Odee O anything!

Who are you and what do you do?

Answer:

I am Odee O Aka the Haitian Sensation and I love traveling, recently went to live in South Africa and discovered this genre called Amapiano and I fused it with my New York hip hop style.

How does your background play into this song?

Answer:

Fell in love with a girl in Africa, and I used to live in Atlanta so I fused my experience in love and heartbreak with a Atlanta vibe.

What is your earliest memory of listening to music?

Answer:

5 years old in Bronx, New York listening on the radio, elevators in the city, and outside on boom boxes. Also watching Ralph McDaniels video music box

At what moment in your life did you decide to become an artist / performer?

Answer:

After I heard Midnight Marauders at 8th grade summer camp I knew I wanted to be musical artistic

What genres does this release play into?

Answer:

It's Hip Hop. POP

How has your sound and style evolved in the last 3 years?

Answer:

Living in South Africa and Atlanta has definitely caused me to merge my New York hip hop style with Amapiano and Atlanta beats

What themes do you explore throughout your music?

Answer:

I explore love, heartbreak, healing, glowing up, self affirmation, Garveyism, black politics, entrepreneurship, and modern dating

If you could go on tour with any artist, who would it be and why?

Answer:

Bad Bunny just to cross genres and travel the world and because he does a lot of indie work.

How would you describe your favorite artist's music to someone who has never heard them before?

Answer:

Inspiring, Elevating...

How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard it before?

Answer:

Charismatic, Inspiring, transparent, ground breaking....

If you could attend a performance by any artist, dead or alive, who would you choose and why?

Answer:

Pac, Biggie, and Big Pun just to watch them perform they're lyrics live.

What is your favorite song you have made, and why?

Answer:

Too many favorite songs I love them all, but I think FLY ASS NEGUS (F.A.N.) is a legacy piece from me.

If you could only listen to three artists for the rest of your life, who would you choose and why?

Answer:

Nas, Prince, and Michael Jackson because all three have outstanding and long discographies I wouldn't get bored.

What does your dream performance look like?

Answer:

My dream performance would be like a mini Broadway show and props and dancers and do a medley of my songs

Who is your dream artist or musician to collaborate with?

Answer:

Jay Z, Nas, JadaKiss, Kendrick

What is the strangest place where you have discovered a new song?

Answer:

At a restaurant.

What do you want people to feel when they listen to your music?

Answer:

Like they made a new friend they can trust.

What do you want people to feel when they listen to your music?

Answer:

Like they made a new friend they can trust.

What three words would you want your fanbase to use to describe you?

Answer:

Driven, Transparent, Inspirational

What is your favorite way of sharing your music?

Answer:

Playlisting right now, soon performances

Do you practice? How has your practice changed over time?

Answer:

I practice in the car, taking long road trips.

Do you practice? How has your practice changed over time?

Answer:

I practice in the car, taking long road trips.

What is the most memorable response you've had to your work?

Answer:

Just excitement via reviews, occasionally call from a friend giving approval. A fan dancing to my music.

What is the most memorable response you've had to your work?

Answer:

Just excitement via reviews, occasionally call from a friend giving approval. A fan dancing to my music.

What is your definition of success as an artist? How do you measure this success?

Answer:

Success is when your lifestyle matches your passion and vision of yourself in a peaceful highly financially comfortable situation where you can just focus on the passion.

How do you plan on being a game-changer within your genre?

Answer:

I would like to bring back some morals, and values back to the genres of hip hop music like unity, peace, brotherhood, sisterhood and community while educating on what freedom to express really looks like free from exploitation.

What role do you believe the artist has in our society?

Answer:

Expanding the realms of possibilities, and invoking a sense of empowerment into the listener.

Name a song that best represents success to you, and why?

Answer:

My song "FLY ASS NEGUS" (F.A.N.) does that for me cause I'm declaring my freedom, conquering my fears, and standing ten toes down like HERE I AM and What?

Name a song that best represents success to you, and why?

Answer:

My song "FLY ASS NEGUS" does that for me cause I'm declaring my freedom, conquering my fears, and standing ten toes down like HERE I AM and What?

What has been your scariest experience while pursuing music?

Answer:

Putting it out and hoping it doesn't to fall on deaf ears.

What is your overarching goal as an artist?

Answer:

I want to ROCK THE WORLD and get wealthy doing what I enjoy doing, making music for people to enjoy and dance and vibe to

Do you have one main reason driving you to continue making music?

Answer:

I love the process, hearing a new beat and expressing myself in real time, my raps are like a snap picture in a time of my ife or archiving my life through music is so much fun and therapeutic for me. It really helps me heal and reaffirm how dope I am.

What is the most significant lesson you've learned through being an artist?

Answer:

Patience. It's not all about my timing.

What has been your most embarassing moment while pursuing music?

Answer:

Telling people that I rap and I have something dope. It feels so cliche to tell folks I rap because rap is saturated.

If you could alter the music industry in any way, what would you change and why?

Answer:

I would add some guard rails/playlists that gets everyone heard but dopeness and song quality , lyrics beat out style and sex and all the things the market of Hip hop exploit to make sales.

What jobs have you done other than being an artist?

Answer:

Cybersecurity

How have your other passions reinforced your process of making music?

Answer:

My love of basketball has a semi pro basketball point guard really guides my passion and approach to marketing my music, it's a full court press...lol

Has being an artist made your life lonely? How do you counteract this?

Answer:

Yes life right now seems very lonely, because I am my biggest fan and I am the engine making this dream move forward so I look at it like a time to focus on me and get myself all the way together.

How would you define having an artistic outlook on life?

Answer:

It's interesting cause other music and people motivate me, so I try to make music that when it's played change the vibes in a room instantly and cause the aura(s) in the room to vibrate at a higher level

What is your favorite work of art?

Answer:

My father's paintings, my first album "Black Jacobins" artwork cover is a painting by him.

Which mediums of art do you most identify with?

Answer:

Basketball, which is art in motion, Painting, music, all of it. Anyway that you can express oneself and you go wow. Lol, it's all about getting that oh "wow" out of the viewer

Name three artists you’d like to be compared to.

Answer:

Nas, Common, Kendrick Lamar

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