404Mali Perspective on OKAY COOL

I wanna be one of the greats, I want to be someone my 15 year old self couldve been inspired by.

I just love it. I enjoy it, the feeling of turning a beat into a whole song. Or seeing people sing my lyrics. It just makes me feel happy.

It's okay to try and fail. You just gotta roll with the punches and adapt. There's nothing wrong with failing as long as you've learned a lesson.

I feel like I'm too "all over the place" to be compared to one singular artist. I've drawn a lot of comparison to a lot of different people.

Music and Film.

Thats just such a hard question since I've crafted each song, cover, and theme myself (when it comes to projects). Im pretty sure I've made all my album arts. But I'd probably say "Capricorn" since it was my most vulnerable work to date.

Just looking at the beauty in the ugly.

Not really. Majority of my real life friends make music, and it gives us something to chase, bond over and talk about. I've also met alot of cool people through music.

Music is my only passion honestly, I like art, or doing graphic design, editing and even playing games but music is the only thing I LOVE. If I dont have a pc and mic I'll still find a way to record music.

I mean, the gimmicks, the clout chasing, the need for attention just kills it for me. Its not music no more, its just WWE, actors playing the part or people using music as a rung in the ladder to somewhere else.

to create. just make something. someones gonna think its garbage and someone will thinks it's life changing.

I just try new things, mix genres and try not to stick to a routine.

I feel like, Artisticly, success is when you music outlives you and people can intepret in different ways through your music. Commercially, I feel as long as your lifestyle is sustainable and thriving then you are successful.

After I dropped "Capricorn" , I had a supporter reach out and tell me he "needed" that and I felt like my job was accomplished. I made that album at a hard time and life and to know that someone else could feel any relief out of it felt great whetherit got 1,000 streams or 100,000 streams.

I used to write but the more I've gone on, the less I tend to write. Every now and then I will write a song but its really rare.

Honestly, sitting in the room with my friends and blasting unreleased music and waiting for their reactions is my favorite way to share. It's so raw, real and in the moment.

Chill, Relatable, GOAT

I want them to undertand me and feel like someone else understands them.

Lil Uzi Vert, ever since my bestfriend past away its been my dram to make a song with Uzi. I feel like that would make him proud, like an "I did it" moment, once that happens I'll feel like i made it.

I feel like I have so much potential to be a superstar but honestly my dream performance would be a smaller crowd probaly around 300-500 people where the performacne could be more intimate and connected with the crowd. I would perfer performing some of my melodic ballads like Floorin Freestyle, California GIrls, or even some of my music from 2022. I would love to see the crowd singign back to me word for word.

Lil Baby, LIl Uzi Vert, Lucki

there music is timelss to me, yet it reminds me of a certain period in my life and feels like they are narrating my life

Lil Baby, LIl Uzi Vert, Lucki

there music is timelss to me, yet it reminds me of a certain period in my life and feels like they are narrating my life

Floorin Freestyle is definetly one of my favorites because its jsut so real, I made it in a hard time in my life and it was just an 100% authentic look into what I was feeling for so long. But i coulnt pick just 1 song since my songs are living breathing art to me since iI've crafter and curated them into what I feel like is the perfect state. Each song is perfect in its own way.

XXXTentacion, he was a once in the lifetime artist, I became a fan of him in 2018 and he was my favorite artist as a kid. My current instagram page was essentialy and XXXTentacion fan page up until he died. He accomplished so much at uch a young age, when I was younger I felt like he was so much older but now that I'm older than he was when he passed, i realize he had SO much more potential.

I try my best to be relatable and down to earth, a good percentage of a my music is foward thinking and might not sound good to you the first listen but after a few listens it will definelty reside with you. I feel like my more melodic works touch the soul and you can feel the vulnerability while my trap or harder stuff tells you of the rough, raw, gritty life alot of people growing up in atlanta have seen, lived, or been around.

Lil Baby's music is relatable, I feel like no matter where you are from or what life you've lived, you can relate to the feelings of struggle and hustle. His music feels like someone is telling the story of things you've already been through.

Personally I would love to tour with Future since he is a big inspiration to trap music and atlanta artist in general. Or Lil Uzi Vert, I've always looked up to Lil Uzi who was my bestfriends favorite artist up until he passes away in late 2021. But if I had to stick to ONE artist, it would probably be Lil Baby since he was the biggest inspiration for me to start dropping and I still look up to him till this day.

I explore themes like "Love", "Hearbreak", "Questioning Religion", "Growing up as a young black man" , "How it feels to be alone" and much much more

I've always been a versatile artist. I've always been inspired by other genres and legacy artist but my sound overtime has strayed away from melodic singing and rapping to raw vocals talking about things that most guys my age can relate to. sometimes i still go back into my roots and dabble.

Hip-Hop/Rap

I made my first song called 30 rounds when i was around 13 but it was a pretty bad deretive of the migos. I spent the time between 13-16 writing music in my notebook but i didnt start releasing music until 2020 when LIl baby dropped "My Turn" and it inspired me to pursue music. EVen then i didnt start taking it "seriously" until early 2022 after my bestfriend passed away.

I've been listening to music since I was a child. My earlier memory of music are songs like Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa or Beez in the trap by Nicki MInaj and Bedrock with Lil Wayne.

Ive been through alot in life espescially since the year has started. this song is about me not worrying about girls, or the hardships in life just replying "OKay Cool" to it and moving on.

My name is 404mali, i make music for myself and other people to vibe, relate to and escape the outside world.