Just keep doing different things to inspire each other, because that's really what it is. Whether it may not be popular or whatever. I just want to inspire people to keep pushing the sound forward. What do you think a generation of artists influenced by you would sound like? You're nominated for Best New Artist, a category that a bunch of generational influencers have been nominated for: Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Drake, Lauryn Hill. Most people wouldn't think of, maybe, Frank Ocean. What's the collaboration that most people wouldn't think of that you would like to get done in the future?Īh, man. He was really easy to work with, and all these guys are my friends. I would like to say everybody that's been on the project has been really easy to work with, especially Don, Trav, and then Brent - getting on the project last minute, even though I was like, "we need you on it" like a week before it came out. What's one message or practice from one of your early collabs that has stuck with you the most so far? I'll speak for the world - the world definitely wants it. It just really depends on a lot of factors that I don't have control over. It could happen and it couldn't, I don't know.
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So on a scale of 'never going to happen' to 'we could drop one tomorrow if we wanted,' how likely is a full Keem/Kendrick collab project in the future? You two also collabed on "Range Brothers" and "Vent," as well as your work on the Black Panther soundtrack.
Two of the nominations come from "Family Ties," the track you did with your cousin, Kendrick Lamar. You know what I mean? But just really surreal. So I probably won't even know how exactly I felt until 15 years from. Everything's kind of surreal when you're just in the moment, and I practice living in the moment. Then two months later, you're nominated for four GRAMMYs.
Your debut album, The Melodic Blue, dropped Sep. sat down with the rising rap star to discuss his "surreal" nominations, how producing his own music has impacted his sound, and how he hopes to influence rap's next generation. (Additionally, his feature/co-write on Kanye West's Donda track "Praise God" scored Keem an Album Of The Year nomination.) His unpredictable style is clearly resonating: Not only did "family ties" earn Keem 2022 GRAMMY nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, but he also received a Best New Artist nod. Its push-pull experience of mosh-pit anthems like the Lamar-assisted "family ties," as well as moments of revelation like "scars," paint an accurate portrait of Keem as an artist - calculated, experimental and unabashedly polarizing. His debut album, The Melodic Blue, is likely jarring for some, but exciting for many. Four GRAMMY nominations later, the 21-year-old rap provocateur seems poised to live up to that potential.Ī mixed bag of diverse flows, disarming vocal deliveries, top-notch production, and no-way-he-just-said-that lyrics makes listening to Baby Keem a true exercise of being kept on your toes. That much was clear even before he collaborated with Travis Scott, before Kanye West recruited him for Donda, before Drake declared his 2019 mixtape the album of that year - oh, and before it was revealed that he really is Kendrick Lamar's cousin.Įarly listeners of the Las Vegas native (born Hykeem Jamaal Carter Jr.) didn't need cosigns from four of rap's most powerful acts to know that Baby Keem could become an influential artist in his own right.
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