LIL DARKIE
Written by Aubri Lyn
How long have you been making music for?
I HAVE BEEN INCEPTING MUSIC FOR GOING ON 2 YEARS NOW
How has your style of music evolved since you began?
WHEN I FIRST STARTED MAKING MUSIC I HAD A CERTAIN STYLE, BUT SLOWLY LOST IT AS NEW IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS ENTERED MY EXPERIENCE. I FEEL LIKE MY MUSIC HAS COME FULL CIRCLE IN A WAY. I’VE GONE BACK TO MAKING MUSIC THAT FOCUSES MORE SPECIFICALLY IN HARNESSING MY AGGRESSION.
How do you feel about the rising soundcloud scene?
I THINK THAT EVERYTHING IS WELL AND GOOD WITH THE INCOMING TALENT THAT I HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY EXPOSED TO, BUT TRUTH BE TOLD I’M NOT VERY IN TOUCH WITH THE STATE OF THINGS ANYMORE. I FIND IT DISTRACTS ME FROM MY OWN STYLE AND VISION IN A SORT OF UNCONSCIOUS WAY.
What projects are you working on currently that you can share?
RIGHT NOW I’M WORKING ON A LOT OF NEW MUSIC WITH WENDIGO AS WE NOW LIVE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. EXPECT A TAPE WITH OUR MUSIC ON IT AS WELL AS SONGS WITH MY FREQUENT COLLABORATOR LIL CUBENSIS. ISAIAH MALIK AND I ARE ALSO WORKING ON DROPPING A PROJECT WITH OUR WORK ON IT WITH THE SAME TEAM ON PRODUCTION.
What role does music play in your life, and how does is affect other aspects of your life?
MUSIC HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT ME. FROM THE WAY I WALK AND TALK TO THE WAY THAT I PERCEIVE THE WORLD IN EACH MOMENT. SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN MUSIC HAS BEEN IN MY LIFE. MY MOM WOULD PLAY BOB MARLEY AND SIMON & GARFUNKEL AND I WOULD HOP AROUND IN MY LITTLE JUMPER STRAPPED TO THE DOORFRAME. I TOOK PIANO AND GUITAR LESSONS GROWING UP. I WOULD DISAPPEAR INTO AN ARTISTIC TUNNEL OF THOUGHT AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE IF I HAD MY HEADPHONES IN. DIDN’T MATTER WHERE. THE BUS, CLASS, OR AT HOME. I STILL FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT MUSIC NOW. IT STILL HOLDS ME IN TIGHTLY IN ITS GRASP AND I KNOW IT ALWAYS WILL.
When did you first start making art?
I HAVE BEEN DRAWING SINCE BEFORE I CAN FORM A MEMORY OF IT. ART IS IN ME IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER I GUESS. I JUST DO IT. THAT’S ALL.
Who or what inspires your style of art?
MY PAIN. PAIN FROM FEELING MISUNDERSTOOD OR A LONGING TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M REALLY CAPABLE OF. THIS LIFE IS ALL A FRONT. OUR BODIES AND EGOS VERY CLEVERLY CONCEAL OUR TRUE NATURE. A SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING AND VICE VERSA. LIL DARKIE IS WHO I AM INSIDE. SO NOW THEY KNOW.
What is your favorite line you have written and why?
“It rain for the space that it take up.
And it rain for the people that it make up.
And it rain for the same as the reason that we came
Cuz it die if it ever gotta wake up”
“It rain for the space that it take up”
IT RAINS LITERALLY BECAUSE THE RAIN EXISTS.
IT “RAINS” (YOU’RE SAD) JUST BECAUSE YOU EXIST AND YOU CAN BE.
“And it rain for the people that it make up”
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HERE FOR US.
SO IT RAINS BECAUSE THE RAIN IS HERE FOR US,
AND ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE MADE OF IT AND IF IT DIDN’T WE WOULDN’T EXIST.
“And it rain for the same as the reason that we came
Cuz it die if it ever gotta wake up”
IF SOMETHING IS BORN (WAKES UP) THEN IT MUST DIE.
SO BECAUSE THE RAIN FORMS, IT MUST FALL (RAIN DOWN)
AND EVENTUALLY DIE JUST LIKE US.
WENDIGO’S CHOICE:
“Fuck your mom, always fathering niggas”
Tell me about the “Kill Yourself” album, and why you decided to call it that:
THE ALBUM IS ABOUT MY PERSONAL EVOLUTION.
WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF BUT I COULDN’T.
WHEN I TOOK SHROOMS MY EGO DIED SO I BASICALLY DIED.
THAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
IT’S ALSO ABOUT HOW MY PERSONA “BRAHMAN” DIED TO MAKE WAY FOR LIL DARKIE.
THE COVER KINDA REPRESENTS HOW LIL DARKIE IS EXEMPT FROM HUMAN RULES. HE’S INVINCIBLE BECAUSE HE’S AN IDEA. SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST EVEN IF I’M NOT HERE. I LIVE ON THROUGH HIM. IF ANYTHING, HE AND MY MUSIC REPRESENT HOW I FEEL MORE THAN MY LIVING ESSENCE TRULY CAN.
THE SONGS ON THIS ALBUM FOLLOW THAT THREAD. SONICALLY, THE PROJECT ABSTRACTLY ENCAPSULATES MY MENTAL LANDSCAPE AT THAT TIME.
What do you consider to be arts purpose in society?
ART IS THERE TO SAY THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN’T.
DO THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN’T.
AND MAKE PEOPLE MORE OPEN TO THE INFINITE NATURE OF OUR MINDS AND WORLD.
ALSO FOR US TO MOSH
-SMALL DARK ONE (LIL DARKIE)
I HAVE BEEN INCEPTING MUSIC FOR GOING ON 2 YEARS NOW
How has your style of music evolved since you began?
WHEN I FIRST STARTED MAKING MUSIC I HAD A CERTAIN STYLE, BUT SLOWLY LOST IT AS NEW IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS ENTERED MY EXPERIENCE. I FEEL LIKE MY MUSIC HAS COME FULL CIRCLE IN A WAY. I’VE GONE BACK TO MAKING MUSIC THAT FOCUSES MORE SPECIFICALLY IN HARNESSING MY AGGRESSION.
How do you feel about the rising soundcloud scene?
I THINK THAT EVERYTHING IS WELL AND GOOD WITH THE INCOMING TALENT THAT I HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY EXPOSED TO, BUT TRUTH BE TOLD I’M NOT VERY IN TOUCH WITH THE STATE OF THINGS ANYMORE. I FIND IT DISTRACTS ME FROM MY OWN STYLE AND VISION IN A SORT OF UNCONSCIOUS WAY.
What projects are you working on currently that you can share?
RIGHT NOW I’M WORKING ON A LOT OF NEW MUSIC WITH WENDIGO AS WE NOW LIVE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY. EXPECT A TAPE WITH OUR MUSIC ON IT AS WELL AS SONGS WITH MY FREQUENT COLLABORATOR LIL CUBENSIS. ISAIAH MALIK AND I ARE ALSO WORKING ON DROPPING A PROJECT WITH OUR WORK ON IT WITH THE SAME TEAM ON PRODUCTION.
What role does music play in your life, and how does is affect other aspects of your life?
MUSIC HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT ME. FROM THE WAY I WALK AND TALK TO THE WAY THAT I PERCEIVE THE WORLD IN EACH MOMENT. SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN MUSIC HAS BEEN IN MY LIFE. MY MOM WOULD PLAY BOB MARLEY AND SIMON & GARFUNKEL AND I WOULD HOP AROUND IN MY LITTLE JUMPER STRAPPED TO THE DOORFRAME. I TOOK PIANO AND GUITAR LESSONS GROWING UP. I WOULD DISAPPEAR INTO AN ARTISTIC TUNNEL OF THOUGHT AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE IF I HAD MY HEADPHONES IN. DIDN’T MATTER WHERE. THE BUS, CLASS, OR AT HOME. I STILL FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT MUSIC NOW. IT STILL HOLDS ME IN TIGHTLY IN ITS GRASP AND I KNOW IT ALWAYS WILL.
When did you first start making art?
I HAVE BEEN DRAWING SINCE BEFORE I CAN FORM A MEMORY OF IT. ART IS IN ME IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER I GUESS. I JUST DO IT. THAT’S ALL.
Who or what inspires your style of art?
MY PAIN. PAIN FROM FEELING MISUNDERSTOOD OR A LONGING TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M REALLY CAPABLE OF. THIS LIFE IS ALL A FRONT. OUR BODIES AND EGOS VERY CLEVERLY CONCEAL OUR TRUE NATURE. A SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING AND VICE VERSA. LIL DARKIE IS WHO I AM INSIDE. SO NOW THEY KNOW.
What is your favorite line you have written and why?
“It rain for the space that it take up.
And it rain for the people that it make up.
And it rain for the same as the reason that we came
Cuz it die if it ever gotta wake up”
“It rain for the space that it take up”
IT RAINS LITERALLY BECAUSE THE RAIN EXISTS.
IT “RAINS” (YOU’RE SAD) JUST BECAUSE YOU EXIST AND YOU CAN BE.
“And it rain for the people that it make up”
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THAT THE WORLD IS HERE FOR US.
SO IT RAINS BECAUSE THE RAIN IS HERE FOR US,
AND ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE MADE OF IT AND IF IT DIDN’T WE WOULDN’T EXIST.
“And it rain for the same as the reason that we came
Cuz it die if it ever gotta wake up”
IF SOMETHING IS BORN (WAKES UP) THEN IT MUST DIE.
SO BECAUSE THE RAIN FORMS, IT MUST FALL (RAIN DOWN)
AND EVENTUALLY DIE JUST LIKE US.
WENDIGO’S CHOICE:
“Fuck your mom, always fathering niggas”
Tell me about the “Kill Yourself” album, and why you decided to call it that:
THE ALBUM IS ABOUT MY PERSONAL EVOLUTION.
WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF BUT I COULDN’T.
WHEN I TOOK SHROOMS MY EGO DIED SO I BASICALLY DIED.
THAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
IT’S ALSO ABOUT HOW MY PERSONA “BRAHMAN” DIED TO MAKE WAY FOR LIL DARKIE.
THE COVER KINDA REPRESENTS HOW LIL DARKIE IS EXEMPT FROM HUMAN RULES. HE’S INVINCIBLE BECAUSE HE’S AN IDEA. SOMETHING THAT CAN EXIST EVEN IF I’M NOT HERE. I LIVE ON THROUGH HIM. IF ANYTHING, HE AND MY MUSIC REPRESENT HOW I FEEL MORE THAN MY LIVING ESSENCE TRULY CAN.
THE SONGS ON THIS ALBUM FOLLOW THAT THREAD. SONICALLY, THE PROJECT ABSTRACTLY ENCAPSULATES MY MENTAL LANDSCAPE AT THAT TIME.
What do you consider to be arts purpose in society?
ART IS THERE TO SAY THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN’T.
DO THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN’T.
AND MAKE PEOPLE MORE OPEN TO THE INFINITE NATURE OF OUR MINDS AND WORLD.
ALSO FOR US TO MOSH
-SMALL DARK ONE (LIL DARKIE)