1993 THE MIXTAPE
Haz2Real Interview
Twitter – @Haz2Real
By: Queen Melamiyn
I met up with my good friend and rising Baltimore music star, Haz2Real, to chat about his hot new project “1993 The Mixtape” dropping on 8/1/2018. Haz is from South Baltimore and started rapping in high school. His previous projects can all be found now on Spinrilla, iTunes, and my Mixtapes. 1993 has everyone stealing its cover art for their social media profiles and its been brimming with anticipation for weeks now. I had to link up and get the scoop on what everyone’s been waiting for.
Q: What inspired the entire 1993 Project?
Haz – “Well it originally was 1993 Baby reloaded and I had 1993 baby finished and I was listening to it and wasn’t satisfied. And I kinda stopped likin’ the name so I’m like ard. I don’t know what imma do with ’93 baby…so imma just make it 1993. Then I wanted to carry it the same way I carried the 1993 project because of the turnout that it got so I’m trying to elevate from that point.”
Q: What makes your sound different from other Baltimore rappers?
Haz- “I don’t rap about stuff that I don’t do. Like I’m not a trap rapper and I’m not a gangsta or whatever you wanna call it for real. I’m just me. I’m just me being real. So, that’s what really separates me from the rest. I mean, it’s a couple artist out here that keep it real for real. But, half of them don’t even know what they talking about. So yea I just stay real. Like, can’t anybody pull my card basically.
Q: How did the trenches make you real or strengthen your character as a man?
A: Because like coming up, I wasn’t the most fortunate kid. I wasn’t all that fortunate like my struggle kinda different from everyone else because you know living around here, then with joint custody between my mother and my father and I’m going to my father house. He in the hood too so *smiling* a lot of things that I been through is because of where I live at. But it builds character because when you go through stuff and it’s all over, you stronger. So like, to come up without a silver spoon in my mouth is probably the best thing for me for real because it builds character and it makes you appreciate stuff.
Q: Do you have any upcoming shows or do you plan on touring at all?
A: Nah, I’m not really booked for too many shows right now, but I got people trying to line stuff up for me so just be on the lookout for that?
Q: Who are all the features on here and how did yall all link up?
A: Ok well #3 on ’93 baby, that LaMatic. I met him last year for real when I uploaded his first mixtape for him on Spinrilla and shit and then we connected from there. Me and him didn’t ever get to link up so I had to send the song through email so it took a lor minute. Me and Slick, you know that’s my bro; that goes without saying. That’s bro. Lil Nate, I met him the same way I met LaMatic. He asked me to upload a mixtape for him. I did it. He was already fucking with my shit though and he kinda similar to me as far as like what he raps about and shit. He probably more street than me so you know. I fuck with him off the strength of that. And then #9 is “I cannot” with my bro Cash. And he bro too so you know that’s how that happened.
Q: Is Haz2Real single or dating?
A: *Pauses* Um, I’m single. I mean I got a couple females I may be wanting to get to know, but yea. I’m single.
Q: What message do you want people to take away after hearing your music?
A: I just want people to not understand me, but know that what I’m saying is genuine because it’s stuff that regular people can relate to. People that’s not you know that’s not in the streets and that’s trying to do something and people that is in the streets because they can relate to going through a lot of stuff like drugging and wanting to make it out so I just want to reach out to as much of a audience as possible. I don’t wanna be narrow in one lane. I want to be able to touch all types of rap music fans.
Q: Have you always been so transparent with your life story?
A: Not at all
Q: How did you get to that point?
A: I think I just got older and I understood life more and I was just like it’s no point of holding stuff back. But holding stuff back is really what got me rapping because I was 9 years old when my cousin got shot and got killed and I ain’t know how to talk about it. I ain’t wanna talk about it. But I wanted to get it off my mind. So I started writing and reading the shit and it was rhyming. I don’t know how I did that shit, but it was rhyming so I’m like damn..maybe I should rap…but I didn’t take it all this serious at first. I would probably would be on and off with writing and I started taking rap really serious when I was like in 10th or 11th grade. 10th or 11th grade, I started battle rapping and once I recorded my first mixtape, I know that’s what I wanted to do.
Q: What direction do you want your rap career to go from here on out?
A: As far as it can go. I ain’t stopping myself from doing nothing that’s going benefit me. I mean, some stuff, ethically I won’t do. Like certain companies might wanna sponsor me and I might not agree with the way they carry things so I’m not gonna work with them just because they throwing me a bag like that’s just the type of person I am. You can call me an ethical rapper forreal. *laughs*
Make sure you download and stream Haz2Real’s newest mixtape 1993 available on iTunes, MyMixtapes, and Spinrilla now!!!
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