Andyderoo Interview

INTERVIEW BY MILLIE TURNER

How do you see yourself as having gotten to where you are today?

I would say that my Dad has always been really into music, so that might have been my start [with] music in that sense. And I have always been an artistic person with painting and sculpting. So I have always had an affinity for the arts. But I don’t think my actual start in music started until I met my friend Aiden in middle school, like 7th grade. And he’s also into the music, all I can do is write and he’s so good on the computer, making beats and everything like that. He invited me over and started making beats and we would write together. And I really had an affinity for it and I didn’t stop. And it would be another two years before we actually made our first song. But yeah, I’d give it up to him a lot for actually giving me an outlet to make something in the first place.

What is it about rapping that makes you feel passionate?

I would say it’s a mixture almost. It gives you an outlet to be somebody you’re not in some sense. You get to be who you want to be, say things and do things that you would never actually do in person. Look cooler, feel cool, in some sense [that] yea, I’m the shit. And you get to hype yourself up. Or in other senses, it’s very therapeutic. Like in some songs, you get to talk about stuff you wouldn’t talk to somebody—like, it’s almost like self-therapy in a sense. Where, if you’re sad or bad breakup or whatever you can write it down in a song and you just get to fucking divulge into all the things that went wrong. I find it soothing almost. You know, like releasing so much stress. 

How do you feel like the Internet has impacted artist’s easy access to putting out music on their own?

There is definitely a duality to it. You know I would say the age of SoundCloud rappers that took the power out of label companies that decided who got famous and who didn’t get famous. Because now anyone can post songs, and anyone can find it. That’s how X got big, suicide Boys, Juice World—there’s so many artists that got big like that—Playboi Carti. People were able to find them instead of someone making them sign some random bumfuck deal and use them for the first five years of their career. And, I think that has helped so much for—especially for the modern music sound. That’s why there are so many different rap sounds now, I think. Just because the people get to decide what they like. So I think it’s done great for inspiring new genres for people. But on the downside (if you want to call it a downside), like TikTok and Reels, it’s definitely made it more oversaturated to the point where you can be a very good artist. But, there are so many people online that it’s impossible to get discovered at some points, you know? You just have to be lucky or know people or just be on the grind. Which is really hard to do when you’re not making any money on music. Like you have to go to school and do a real job, and then if you’re still feeling up to it, write a song, record, make a music video, post online. It’s a hard process for a minute-long video that someone is going to skip ten seconds in the first place. Sometimes your video will be good and you’ll be relevant in a week or whatever, but it’s consistency that’s hard to keep you know?

Which one of your tracks is the most special to you and why?

It would definitely be “Kill My Vibe Never My Flow”, even though I don’t think it performed very well. So, look, every single time I got back into music, and I try to change it now, it’s always been because of a breakup. Or I’ve just been at a very low point. I was making music in high school, I released a few songs, and then I stopped for a couple of years and then senior I got into a relationship outside of school. I didn’t have a job, I dropped out of colleg,e and then I fell out of the relationship. I was kinda doing nothing for a whole year to where I was in a low point. I started getting back into music, and that’s when my friend and I weren’t talking anymore. So that’s the first time I was making music by myself. I had made one track. I think it’s “On The Clock” that I had written, maybe two years before I actually made the song just to practice how to mix vocals. And then, right after that, maybe a month later, I had recorded my first song that I had done by myself. And it became my best performing track to this day that’s still getting—well, for me, even though I’m not a big artist I get a hundred plays a day on it and that was “The Sunset Is Beautiful.” And that was about the breakup and everything. And I kept releasing songs about a breakup or how bad I was feeling and I just really hated that, just feeding into my own sadness. Like I said, music can be therapeutic but at a certain point if you just feed into it too much it just makes you depressed. So, I wrote that song as like, kinda taking back—I’m making music for me and not for somebody else. So I was talking about the breakup, the point I was at in my life, losing my friend and I wasn’t going to let it set me back. And I was just going to keep on going. I was taking the power back in my music and promising myself that I was going to write music for me. And that I wasn’t going to write music for somebody else. At least in a desperate manner like that, it’s always good to make love songs because I love making love songs and breakup songs. But not like feeding into like, sadness like that or being desperate or anything. So it [“Kill My Vibe Never My Flow”] has a special place in my heart. 

As we end this interview, how would you describe yourself as a rapper to new listeners? 

I do a mix of everything, each song is different. I think for the most part I’m a low-fi, sadder lovey artist. Every now and again I do a hard song you know? If you like X’s sadder songs or maybe Joni [or] Lil Peep, maybe just a little bit of Suicide Boys, I think [I’m] a mixture of that. But mostly it’s a Joji-esque low-fi deal that I try to do. And if you like that, check it out. 

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