Outline MeInterview: Kemet ExcessiveEditor’s Notice: This story initially appeared within the Winter 2022 concern of XXL Journal, on stands now.
There’s a shift taking place in Atlanta’s rap scene proper now and Destroy Lonely, 21, has been capitalizing on the second. Over the previous couple of years, he’s pulled followers into his universe of metallic sonics via tasks like No Stylist and </3, amongst others. Having movement, he additionally caught the eye of Playboi Carti, who signed Lonely to his label Opium in 2021. Forward of his early 2023 launch, If Appears May Kill, Destroy reveals the five-song soundtrack that informs all of it.
“Blitz”
It’s like my favourite tune proper now simply because it actually takes me again to rising up, using round and listening to Pluto [Future], OJ Da Juiceman, [Young] Thug. Actual Atlanta music. That’s why I made a decision to shoot the video for it as a result of I needed to indicate individuals like, Yeah, I’m on my turning up shit. And I’m on my different and being inventive shit. However I’m nonetheless from the A. I made that tune after I was on tour with Ken [Car$on].
“Bane”
“Bane,” simply because I really feel like that’s how lots of people got here to know me. And being an artist, that’s the tune that I hate a lot. However I like that I hate it a lot. [I hate it because] I made that tune after I was 17. And when it got here out, no one was fucking listening to it. And now, niggas wanna act prefer it’s the perfect tune they ever heard.
“Miley Cyrus”
It’s pivotal for my profession as a result of after I was youthful, I used to be watching Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus. I began up after I was 14, so I’d be going to high school after which go house and make songs on some real-life Miley Cyrus shit. Or no less than that’s what I felt like in my head. And he or she had blonde hair. So, it was simply extra of like a parallel of me.
“Dover Road Market”
That shit helped my profession as a result of the piano, the beat on that, Clayco simply snapped and lots of people actually fall in love with the primary couple of keys. After which at my reveals, that shit goes so loopy. It’s only a actually stunning tune and I don’t even store at Dover Road Market no extra. I used that [song] as a milestone.
“No Stylist”
Being fully trustworthy and this ain’t even to sound smug, I simply really feel prefer it’s refreshing for music. For individuals to have the ability to hear it and see a younger nigga that might make one thing with substance and [something] that folks may really feel, whether or not they’re 15 or 105. That shit is simply my model of [Soulja Boy’s] “Flip My Swag On.”
Learn Destroy Lonely’s interview within the winter concern of XXL journal, on newsstands in January 2023. Take a look at extra interviews within the journal, together with conversations with Freddie Gibbs, Probability The Rapper, Ab-Soul, G Herbo, DaBaby, EST Gee, Murda Beatz, Morray, Ice Spice, Jeleel!, Armani White, producer Dez Wright, singer Kiana Ledé, actor Shameik Moore, plus a take a look at hip-hop’s love for wrestling, a deep dive into how new artists get on in hip-hop lately, the methods through which ladies in rap succeeded in 2022, the rapper-run podcasts the sport has grown to like and a tribute to rappers we misplaced in 2022.
