StreetWave Media presents an exclusive interview is hip hop female artist, SKG located in Los Angeles, California. After our interview, check out additional info about SKG and the linked below…
1. What made you decide to jump into the music industry or music business?
I grew up lovng music. My Older Brother actually help me discover my artistic side of creating.
2. What do you think makes you stand out from all the other aspiring and upcoming artists in your genre of music?
I think my ability to keep going and not give up. My Diversity and the way I connect my audience to my music.
3. If you could collaborate with ANY artist/band… Who would you choose and why?
Ive collabed with alot of Artist already but im excited for a future collab with Jadakiss.
4. What do you think is your biggest Advantage and your biggest Disadvantage about being an Indie artist?
My biggest advantage is my knowledge. My biggest disadvantage is being a female with an aggressive attitude in a male dominated industry.
5. Do you prefer the Independent route or would you rather sign to a major record label, and why?
I prefer the independent route because it gives me more freedom
6. Out of all the songs you’ve released, what do you think is your Best song and why?
I think my feature with Pac because he such a fucken Legend!
7. Do you miss the era of CD sales OR do you prefer the new wave of music streaming? Explain…
I do kinda miss the era of CD sales.
8. Between creating in the studio OR performing live on stage, which is your most enjoyable one and why?
I love creating in the studio. I love vibing out to the beats while coming up with new concepts.
9. During your entire journey through the music business, what would you consider your Worst experience?
My Worst experience is when a group of people lied on me and tried to blackball me. It taught me never give another human power over what you were destined to do.
10. What would you consider your most successful or proudest moment in your music career, so far?
Writing, Performing and Featuring on Pac Until The end of time album
11. If any, what discourages you the Most about music industry these days?
The Street Politics behind it
12. What inspires you the Most about the music industry these days?
The freedom to create and express myself
13. If you wasn’t in the music business or industry, what do you think you would be doing with your life instead?
I would definetly be an Attorney
14. In your own opinion, What is the current music scene like in your local area?
Not supportive of female rappers
15. What is your latest release and where fans can find it?
My Latest release is my song called “Bad Azz Bitch” Featuring Boosie and Heatboom and its available on all music streaming platforms
16. What is on your agenda or what can fans expect to see from you in 2021?
To Drop My Album in December called “Unfinished Business” and to continue creating music
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From Tupac Album to Modern Day Industry, SKG Continues To Drop Heat
When it comes to rappers, Femcee SKG can go head to head on the beat with any male artist in the game.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Helecia Choyce came up around one of hip hop’s most precious eras. Rap was her calling, and she knew it the moment she heard musical influences like Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Missy Eliot, and Lil Wayne. She would become acquaintances with none other than Death Row honcho, Suge Knight who gave Helecia her stage name, SKG which stands for “Suge Knight Girl.”
SKG had a talent for creating diversified music that had fans of varying backgrounds and locations jamming and shouting her lyrics like it was their own. Her name rose alongside the late great, Tupac, for whom she received writing credit and a Platinum Plaque for her work on his album, “Until The End Of Time.” Her fame was reaching into new heights with bangers that had crowds moving at her performances. Her latest single, “Bad Azz Bitch” featuring Boosie BadAzz and Heataboom shows SKG’s hit-making ability while owning her throne as one of the best Femcee’s doing it. The track is the warm-up to her upcoming album, “Unfinished Business” which features the aforementioned Boosie BadAzzz aka Lil Boosie, Paul Wall, Dave East, Suga Free and Anthony Hamilton.
Given the heat that comes from her new single, “Bad Azz Bitch” her upcoming album is going to be nothing but flames. Follow the Death Row protégé and run streaming numbers up on her new single.
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Unsigned artist? The best music discovered on Right Chord Music is added to one of our three Lost On Radio, Spotify Playlists.
Lost On Radio Podcast
Lost On Radio began life as the name of our Podcast in 2010. We recorded almost three hundred episodes. The Podcast was created to showcase incredible unsigned artists from around the world. As the name suggests our aim was to champion artists overlooked by radio or pushed to the late-night fringes. To date, the Lost On Radio Podcast has attracted listeners from over 175 different countries. You can find the show on all good Podcast players including Spotify, aCast and Entale.
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The editorial team at RCM now lovingly curate three ever-evolving Lost On Radio Spotify Playlists, to champion the best new unsigned artists and independent music we discover.
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Lost On Radio Explorer is our original and biggest playlist, it’s designed for the most intrepid musical explorers. Discover incredible unknown and undiscovered artists.
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We recognised our Explorer playlist might be a little heavy for some people, so we recently launched Lost On Radio Breezy a collection of upbeat and breezy new and undiscovered indie gems discovered and curated by the Right Chord Music new music blog. As is the RCM way all music is from unsigned and independent artists.
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Our third playlist ‘Fresh Retro’ transports you back to a time when life was easier. This playlist contains new music with a retro sound and retro classics that still sound fresh.
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Why Lost On Radio is important for unsigned artists
Daytime radio is dominated by major label artists. Consequently, as an unsigned artist, it is incredibly difficult to secure daytime radio play-listing. Hiring a radio plugger is expensive and for unsigned artists, the cost frequently outweighs the returns. Faced with these challenges Spotify provides a powerful alternative way for unsigned artists to build buzz and earn an income.
Although landing a place on an official Spotify editorial playlist can have a dramatic impact on your income, competition is fierce. Therefore, getting your music on independent playlists like Lost On Radio can provide a vital stepping stone to build online buzz to get on Spotify’s radar.
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Unlike a typical Podcast, every Stream goes to the featured artist, so show your support by listening, following and sharing. Any music discovered on The Daydream Club Presents Podcast can also be easily dragged and added to your own playlists. This is music discovery made easy.
The duo play music from their influences, personal favourites, talented friends and provide exclusive behind the music insights into their own creative process.
Right Chord Music is proud to support the show. Each week we delve into our blog and playlist archives to select one incredible unsigned or independent artist to feature on the Podcast.
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Purveyor of dark, introspective and otherworldly sounds, Nora Lilith has recently released her debut EP ‘Daysof8’. Overflowing with curiosity and intrigue, Nora’s first Ep project is utterly spellbinding and represents an ongoing inner journey of self-exploration and discovery for the artist.
We caught up with Nora Lilith to unpick and unravel her artistic journey so far, the creative process behind the ‘Daysof8’ EP and what comes next for this exciting, genre-defying artist.
Hi Nora Lilith, welcome to Right Chord Music. Thank you for joining us today, we really appreciate your time.
Thank you for having me!
To give our readers a heads up, please give us a brief introduction of you and your music.
I’m an autodidactic singer/songwriter/producer working with DIY sounds somewhere along the lines of lo-fi experimental bedroom pop, with an interest for trip-hop, jazz, house, and generally unconventional sounds.
You’ve recently revealed your debut EP ‘Daysof8’, what was this process like for you? The highs, the lows?
It’s been quite a learning curve, especially in the ways it illuminated things about my relationship to my music, and to releasing. Initially, I gave myself about a month or two to write most of the tracks. It was exhilarating to find a process that would condense my creative work like that. But was also a dissociative experience in some ways as I’ve generally, since then, been growing in awareness of how I’ve never truly learned how to be in rhythm with myself creatively.
That my anchor into music sort of got lost at sea, and I’d been instead outsourcing my creative drive and intentions. So I think at different stages of the creative process as well as during the release itself I was plagued with anxiety and self-criticism. In a weird way though, I think these lows made way for some of the highs, as all growth comes from discomfort.
I’ve also never had a publicist or worked with a label before so that was definitely an exciting change; it felt great to have support and not feel like I carried the weight of a project all alone.
What would you say your favourite track is on the EP?
Hmm, I’d say either Daysof8 or Yolk probably. I still feel tethered to my juvenile excitement that came from using Alterboy for the first time, so these tracks felt vocally expressive to me in a different way; in their tonality.
What’s the most rewarding part of making music for you?
The moments I’m singing and able to tap into the deepest parts of myself through tonal and lyrical expression. I feel transported, blissful, a sort of out-of-body experience where I instead wholly embody the sounds that wrap around me.
What would you say you love most about being a music maker?
I think expanding on that last response, I love the opportunity music gives me to connect with and develop a deep sense of intimacy with my soul. It sort of feels like a bridge between two worlds, an access point where I can meet with myself away from the rest of the world.
You used to be a part of electronic duo NÄM, how would you say this differs from your current project?
NÄM had a very different sound, it was more overtly pop I’d say. I also wasn’t producing in NÄM, I actually didn’t know how yet, so this solo project is very special to me as it gives me the opportunity for more creative control. My voice was also so different back then! Haha, it always blows my mind a little when I listen back to those older tracks, and how much my voice has evolved in that time.
What did you learn from your time as one half of NÄM?
For one, coming out of the project I learned that I am capable of pursuing my creative vision on my own, which is something I had doubted during. Throughout NÄM I definitely learned a lot of technicalities about the music world, performing, and the industry. I was also introduced to Ableton which is the software I now use to produce.
Any plans for any live shows/tours in the not too distant future?
Honestly, no! I haven’t made any live show plans, I don’t even have a live set figured out right now. It’ll come though, at some point haha.
What’s next for Nora Lilith?
I’m planning on moving back to Berlin come summer 2022. I’m curious to see how that re/directs my music journey. My priority right now creatively is giving myself the time and patience to build a healthier relationship with my music, tapping back into my authentic expression. What may or may not come of that in terms of releases I just don’t know yet! I do have tracks for days though so you’ll be seeing more eventually
Wordsmith explores countering perspectives of longing in animated video
Lyrical gunslinger Bruce Pandolfo, who records and performs under the moniker AllOne, has premiered the animated music video for his mesmerizing tale of two cities “Don’t We? (feat. Brian Kjellgren of Sargasm).”
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AllOne conjures two characters’ dreamscapes with his unique blend of rapid fire delivery and knack for scene setting storytelling. Bri Martinsen, whose animation illustrates these two worlds, transports a man to a sunny countryside, complete with a vividly detailed general store. AllOne’s lyrics awaken all the scenes as the clerk “gently growls orders at ransacking grandkids,” his hair visibly “less pepper than salt” atop a mind saturated with “sepia-toned tales” of years gone by. With musty air and candy jars dusty to the touch, the scene is one of pure beauty in the enticed yet wandering mind of a city cabbie, slouching behind the wheel day after day in the noisy city traffic.
After a chorus graciously sung by Sargasm’s Brian Kjellgren, the cabby’s backroad fantasy is another man’s reality. Switching perspective, the underground star raps poetic about bustling taxis and tourists clogging the sidewalks, bumping shoulders with stars of page and screen. Street artists, novelists, jazz musicians, comedians all under “a billion blinding Iron Giant eyes” pouring through “modern monoliths that model Metropolis.” The man confined to the rural dreamscape of an urbanite longs to live among the racoon-eyed “sardonic sardined populace” of his counterpart’s city.
“‘Don’t We?’ is a grass is always greener tale,” Pandolfo said. “The power of daydreaming and how there’s always someone out there craving the thing you’re bored with or longing to escape. The writing was an opportunity to capture place in painting settings and images, almost a series of sketches. I loved the idea of the music representing the bucolic imagery as well as the metropolitan landscape. Conscious Robot did an incredible job, this was one of few songs on the album where the direction started with me and having a song written and structured already and giving them the direction to compose around it. The chorus is sung by my friend Brian Kjellgren of the Long Island metal band Sargasm.”
Emotionauts is AllOne’s eighth album overall, quenching fans’ thirst after a five-year wait for a full-length follow-up to 2016’s I’ve Been Thinking… But for the artist and his fans alike, the album is worth the wait. AllOne tackles the struggles of codependence, unrequited love, suicidal depression and ADHD. He expresses the pain of feeling like an outsider, leans into the cripilling uncertainty of youth that lingers into adulthood, and steps back to explore the vastness of the universe.
The Long Island-based rapper, slam poet and songwriter Bruce Pandolfo spent countless hours studying the craft of MCing, and the time had come to leap, whether the rip cord works or not. But this was no project born of carelessness. Pandolfo is nothing if not meticulous about the placement of every syllable in his dense, rapid-fire rhymes. He understands that there comes a time when, creatively speaking, you just have to risk falling on your face.
“I still feel like I can fall on my face with it,” he chuckled. “But at this point I don’t know if I’d feel comfortable without that level of uncertainty. There’s such a great spark of creativity in all that tension that comes with it.”
His career was born out of such a leap into uncertainty. A sophomore in high school, Pandolfo took his notebook down to a coffeehouse, and surrounded by seasoned poets who were all in their sixties, he took his place at the mic and gave it a go. He’s never looked back since.
An avid reader since childhood whose father was a rock guitarist, Pandolfo has nevertheless continued to step into unfamiliar arenas: hip hop, slam poetry, jamming with other musicians and (most recently) production and arrangement were all somewhat foreign territory for him when he discovered them, but he’s jumped in with both feet at every stage. He has also, over a span of 8 albums and 4 EPs broadened the DIY concept so that it no longer stops with the artist. Part of the AllOne mision is for the listener to feel encouraged to go out there and do it themselves.
Pandolfo’s musical journey begins as a teenager immersed in the cerebral end of the punk pool:
“My mother,” he explained, “encouraged reading so strongly that I still do it voraciously now. So my life has always been defined by words. Even the music I was drawn to pre-hip hop was very lyric-heavy bands like Bad Religion. I was always fascinated by how lyrical composition could completely transmogrify a genre. You take a piece of music that you might immediately have all these assumptions about because it’s easy to identify within certain genre parameters, but then you do something more ingenuitive with the words, and then you’ve changed that piece of music almost on an alchemical level. So when I got into rap music, I was naturally magnetized to people who were doing it on such an articulate level that I couldn’t help but be blown away by and fall in love with the genius of it.”
It was fortuitous, then — it actually altered Pandolfo’s destiny — that Epitaph Records began featuring cutting-edge hip hop artists like Sage Francis, Atmosphere and Eyedea & Abilities on its annual Punk-O-Rama compilations in the early 2000s. Pandolfo’s path was set. From there, he dove into slam poetry, which then led to the collaborations with Long Island musicians documented on AllOne’s 2010 debut Coal Aberrations. Since then, he has worked with a variety of different producers and instrumentalists, tending to organize each release according to a unifying theme, so that subject matter and musical presentation contrast significantly from release to release. Still, even when he delved into the blood-curdling world of true crime on his 2017 Dusty Dossiers EP, the common thread has always been Pandolfo’s irresistible attraction to being a constructive force. Even when he’s writing from, say, a murderer’s perspective, the goal is to inspire and motivate (no surprise from an artist who has the words “keep pushing” tattooed on one forearm and “pull through” on the other).
It’s clear throughout Emotionauts that Pandolfo has upped his lyrical prowess to deliver his most fully-realized work to date. He wastes no time expressing the innermost struggles that pain him on opener “Thought Ballon Aeronaut,” then turns to offer aid to fellow sufferers of anxiety and suicidal depression, urging them to seek community in niche spaces on “Left Field Day.” Whether pondering the ever complicating world of love on “Heart Syncing” or delivering gut-wrenching and striking honesty throughout “Anodyne as Oblivion,” fans can expect Pandolfo to stick to his strengths as a masterful wordsmith as comfortable with a mic as he is his trusty typewriter.
Conscious Robot’s spacious and experimental musicality makes numerous listens of Emotionauts necessary. “This is the strongest relationship and interactivity I’ve ever had with a producer,” Pandolfo said. “So it’s really the first time where I feel like I’m not just adding my vocals on top of the music. There’s a musicality and a progressive quality with Conscious Robot that hasn’t always been there in some of the more lo-fi boom-bap stuff that I’ve rapped on. I love that stuff, but it tends to have a uniform feel.”
With debut rap guest Kavi, songwriter Laurie Anne Creus, poet and singer Marie Polaris, metal guitarist and vocalist Brian Kjellgren, and Necter singer/songwriter Sam Raia, Emotionautus boasts the most collaborations of any AllOne full-length to date.
Ross Harmon chats with us about his latest single “Starting Again.”
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Hailed as ‘music that lights you up from the inside out’, Ross Harmon’s music will make you smile, dance or both. A born performer, Ross’s captivating high-energy, party-like show is the culmination of an entire lifetime of practice. This is reflected in his anthemic music: a powerful vocal and an infectious beat.
Being influenced by a rich melting pot of genres and artists including Dance Pop icon Lady Gaga, Vocal House legends Livin’ Joy and Barbara Tucker and Trad Folk-Pop group The Corrs means Ross’s melodies are catchy, his lyrics feature whimsical graphic imagery and the production uses a mixture of cutting-edge electronic sounds and traditional acoustic instruments. His specialty gospel-style harmonies are a distinct feature in his music – these are the result of growing up singing harmonies in choirs and being exposed to harmony-driven music such as The Four Seasons and ABBA.
Born and raised in Northamptonshire, Ross started writing songs at the age of 13 and self-produced his first EP (‘Enter’) at age 15. Since then, he has honed his skills as a songwriter and performer. He is a professional Musical Theatre actor and has featured in musicals such as Mamma Mia. His vocal skills and performing experience give him a special edge in the studio and on stage, allowing him to let loose and form a special, unique connection with the audience.
We chatted with Ross back in April about his debut single “Lonely World,” check it out here.
The song starts off with a wavy instrumental accompanied by soft vocals from Ross that make us feel like we’re floating through the clouds. As the song builds, it starts to give us more energy that leads directly to the strong and catchy chorus. At this point, the song had me dancing in my bedroom. I feel like this song would be perfect to hear in a gay club anywhere. The vocal melodies and lyrics are quite addicting, making this such an awesome dance track that’s a must add to all your house music playlists.
What is your favorite part about this song?
I love the way that the song is a journey of discovery, both in terms of the story and the production. It starts off very light and ethereal, with minimal instrumental and vocal arrangement, in line with the lyrics being about the past struggles. Then as the lyrics become brighter and the feeling of love re-emerges within the relationship, the instrumental production starts to lift too with more drums & synths. This gradually builds throughout the song until we get to the full breakdown at the end with harmonies & ad libs from the vocal and a big wide instrumental production, done masterfully by Roberto Panovski the producer & co-writer.
Where did you record this song, and what are the vibes like in the studio with you?
I recorded this in South West London with Roberto, and he always pushes me for the most authentic writing & performance, encouraging me to really establish the truest emotion & feeling. He has a great way of getting me to try things vocally which I would never have done by myself, but end up loving! I’m a pretty chilled performer, so there are a lot of laughs in the studio – I think this always makes the delivery more present and authentic.
Was this release cathartic for you?
Totally – both of the songs on the single, Starting Again and the B-side, Battles, are two of my favourite songs I’ve written. Hearing the positive comments from friends & fans makes it all worth the while.
What keeps you inspired and motivated?
The way that writing songs encapsulates how you are feeling at a certain moment in time means that every writing session is different. This means writing never gets stale for me – there is always some new emotion to surface, or maybe an event that is playing on my mind – writing is almost like therapy, seeing it all written down in front of you and really finding the words to describe it.
What can we expect next from you?
My next release, Price You Could Pay, is a departure from my dance-pop inspired sound and a shift towards more of a synthwave/synth-pop vibe – still maintaining the story-telling driven lyrics and big harmony-heavy vocal arrangements. This comes out Friday 12th November and will be my final release of 2021!
What other artists are you listening to right now?
I love Yebba’s new album – I think she is the most unbelievable vocalist on the planet at the moment. I can literally feel every single note she sings, and I’m a big fan of her songwriting style. Sometimes songwriters can shoehaun a billion metaphors or similes in to their writing and it feels a little pushed or inauthentic – but Yebba somehow manages to use imagery and metaphor in a super visual yet subtle way.
Thank you for taking the time to answer those questions for us, Ross!
Be sure to stream “Starting Again” by Ross Harmon on all platforms now, and follow him on social media below!
