Musical Corner

Toshka is a lighthearted hip hop artist that’s 22 years old from South Africa. He started getting into music through his love of passion and the ability to create a music career independently. His biggest musical artists that have inspired Toshka to create music was the whole collective group 808rsising. He loved their music, merch, YouTube content and culture that they are putting out to the world. Toshka doesn't just think critically on his music he also thinks about his branding and visual design because he believes that it is a huge part to put an image to his music and making good cover art and designs can be present professionally. On his song “ Rainbow” is actually one of his least sentimental song and is the fourth most popular song on his spotify is based around a meme where a gangster tough guy is explaining the beauty of a rainbow and Toshka thought the idea was very creative and based this song off of the meme. You can actually hear the meme play in a part o...

Shredx is an Indian rapper from Kolkata, India. He never thought that he would ever become a musician because he wanted to be an actor but always loved to sing and the creative part of making music. Shredx started by playing his guitar and freestyling random words to create a song. This process evolved into him singing over beats. He decided that the rap life was crazier than the acting business but he went to school for engineering instead of starting his rap career until his ex broke up with him the heartbreak was a life-changing moment for him and he left everything to start his rap career. Some of his biggest musical inspirations that influence the music Shredx creates are A.R Rahman, J. Cole, Pink Floyd, Kendrick Lamar, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Joyner Lucas, and Bloodymare. He listens to music from different genres and adapts the best elements to his own sound. In his opinion, the biggest achievement in his career so far was when he got the chance to work with one of his...

Jabarov is a 24-year-old Electronic artist and producer from Baku, Azerbaijan. He started creating music for two reasons: he loved electronic music because of how the sound moves you. He was living an asocial lifestyle and making music helped him become more social and open up to people. Some of the musicians that inspired him to create Electronic Music were Ramzi and Jalai Aliyev. Jabrarov used to listen to a lot of sad negative type music for a very long because he felt that upbeat and happy-sounding music sounded fake and meaningless to him but once he started creating music for himself and his thoughts and outlook on life transitioned he was able to understand the meaning behind happy upbeat music, this can be reflected in his work today. Some of the songs that he is most proud of creating are Illusion, Love Me, Insomnia, and Endorphin. Jabarov tends to get most of his inspiration from his works in nature. In 2023 Jabarov wants to continue to create and giv...

Kingpvz is a Slovak Hardbass producer and is starting to add other elements to his music besides Hardbass. Some Hardbass artists that Kingpvz would like to credit with inspiring him to create music in the Hardbass genre are Alan Aztec, DJ Blyatman, HBKN, and Uamee. One of Kingpvz's biggest achievements was when Uamee commented on one of his songs that he made. Kingpvz has always been interested in music since he was a small child. His mom signed him up for a music theory class in the 2nd grade as well as signing him up for piano lessons. He played the piano for six years, winning many competitions and concerts. After his 6th year of playing the piano, he got annoyed by it and quit playing it for many years. With the COVID pandemic, Kingpvz found himself having a lot of free time on his hands and decided to download FL Studio and started making some songs there to pass the time, After creating his first song which attracted 1,000 views on YouTube he can’t imagine a day w...

A.F  is a rapper from Lisbon, Portugal but currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland. Living in both Portugal and Scotland has impacted his music because while he was living in Portugal many of his peers were DJs and artists who were trying to make it in the music industry so he was able to fall in love with music but once he moved to Scotland he saw how different the music scene was in the UK. He fell in love with the Grime era of rap in the UK taking influence from Skepta, JME, and AJ Tracey. He chose his Name A.F because of his name being Afonso he just used the first two letters to make A.F. He started rapping once he saw the Michael Daapah parody character “ Big Shaq” and wanted to do the same thing of comedy rap. After he showed a few of his friends he made he posted them on SoundCloud, after that he fell in love with the process of writing and going to the studio to make music he decided to take it more seriously. According to A.F his most significant ac...

  Swiper Dan is a very talented artist from St. Vincent in the Caribbean. He got the name Swiper Dan from him stealing from his grandfather and his grandfather responded “ He is a swiper and everyone started calling him Swiper. In all of the music that Swiper Dan puts out, he tries to add a little bit of Caribbean flair to his music because that is all that he knows and he wants to represent St. Vincent in the rap industry. Swiper Dan got interested in making music for a living because of his mother and when times got tough growing up for Swiper Dan music he wanted to make a living creating music to help out and gain some income for his family. I asked Swiper Dan what inspired him musically and his answer really struck me. He said that he gets inspired by himself more than anyone else. He inspires himself to push forward and to live a life that he never had. He also said that he had a friend that helped him along the way to keep himself on track. Swiper Dan would love t...

ARBAZ is a 26-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer from Norway. ARBAZ was born and raised in Norway but his ancestry is of Pakistan descent. ARBAZ's style of music is hard to put into one specific bucket. He started his music career doing Norwegian rap music but has since adapted to creating more experimental Hip-Hop. Growing up ARBAZ listened to traditional south asian music from artists like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Anif Lohar, Jazzy B, and Bohemia. He also had other inspirations from the United States of America like 50 Cent, Canadian inspiration from Drake, and some Norwegian inspiration from a hip-hop group called Karpe. While talking with ARBAZ I had the ability to learn all about how he wants to incorporate a lot of different cultures and emotions into his new EP titled Desi Scandinavian. Desi Scandinavian is ARBAZ's debut album, a 5 track EP that showcases how talented and innovative ARBAZ is with a different style in each track as well as a d...