Rapboijones Perspective on Dylan Blue
I’m Rapboijones, an artist, writer, and creative originally from Chicago and now based in Los Angeles. I’ve spent over 20 years producing, writing, and shaping my own sound — a blend of sample-driven hip-hop, introspective storytelling, and raw emotional honesty.
My music comes from real life: ambition, spiritual elevation, pressure, resilience, and the journey of becoming who you’re meant to be. I make songs that feel lived-in — songs people can feel, not just hear. I want listeners to step inside my world, see their own reflection in it, and walk away with something real.
Everything I create is rooted in experience, discipline, and the environments that shaped me — from Chicago’s grit to LA’s creative energy. My goal is always the same: elevate the frequency, tell the truth, and make something timeless.
My background plays into this song because I’ve lived through relationships where love wasn’t the problem — alignment was. Coming from Chicago and everything I’ve experienced growing up, I learned early that you can care deeply about someone and still know they’re not meant to stay in your life. This song comes from a real moment where I had to walk away from someone I didn’t want to lose, but staying would’ve held both of us back. That push and pull — wanting them but knowing the future wouldn’t work — is what shaped the entire emotion behind this track. It’s heartbreak, maturity, and growth all at the same time, pulled straight from my past.
My earliest memories of music go all the way back to childhood — waking up on Saturday mornings in Chicago to my parents cleaning the house and blasting their favorites. I’d run downstairs hearing my dad playing Earth, Wind & Fire, James Brown, and Roy Ayers. My mom would switch it up with Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross, and Whitney Houston. Those mornings shaped my whole foundation — real soul, real feeling, and music that filled the whole house with life. That’s where I learned emotion in music before I even understood it
