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Tatiana’s Culture Shock: Big K.R.I.T.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

When I compare my hunger to an artists music, it is a compliment. So saying that Big Krit’s music makes me hungry, is the equivalent to a family-sized Nando’s meal, with halloumi cheese and peri-peri sauce in abundance. This hometown hero of Mississippi grabs us with his flavourful enthusiasm, honesty and stories of his struggles. In this intimate interview, we discuss his mixtape: ‘K.R.I.T Wuz Here’, being crowned one of the best albums of 2010, getting signed to Def Jam after the mixtape download broke internet servers and how being a producer in addition to a rapper came out of a necessity…


TWU: What do we need to know about Big Krit?

Big Krit: I’m a humble cat from Mississippi, really just doing what I love to do, music. I’m embracing the art form, dreaming big, putting on for my state and putting people on to our lingo and how we get down.

TWU: Your mixtape, ‘K.R.I.T Wuz Here’, made a huge impact with even SPIN Magazine naming it a top album of 2010. What were you expecting after you put it out?

Big Krit: Well, it came May 4th. It was really when I was at a point where I was trying to decide whether this was something I was really going to be able to do, because music is all I’ve ever done. On a financial aspect, it’s difficult. You’re selling beats and trying to stay afloat. ‘K.R.I.T Wuz Here’ is about me rapping about my life, relationships; the emotions I went through spiritually with me and my girl and it kind of exceeded expectations.

TWU: Technology plays a huge part in music nowadays, so tell us about what happened when your mixtape hit the internet…

Big Krit: People really took to it. The first day it came out, we premiered it on www.DJBooth.net and we shut down the server, because that many people were trying to download it right then. It’s been such organic moves about it since then and from word of mouth, the label came aboard after that.

TWU: Now that you’re signed to Def Jam, do you think you’ll have to change your style of music?

Big Krit: It’s not going to be a change in me, or the content of the subject matter. I might make the music bigger, but other than that, it’s going to be the same content and same person. It’s not the glamour and the glitz. Labels don’t really want to take risks, but they took a chance with me and I’m grateful.

TWU: What came first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, rapping or producing?

Big Krit: Rap came first. I was making beats at 13/14 years old; I was 100 dollars a beat. I just started doing it on my own. The MTV Music Generator came about and I copped that on PlayStation for like 50 dollars. Then I went from there, making my own beats, diving deeper into production, studying producers like Timbaland, DJ Toomp, Pete Rocks, J Dilla and sampling stuff like that. I was diving deep into the patterns, hooks and the whole format of making songs. Producing was just kinda like another choice for me.

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