Isaiah Rashad

General

• Isaiah Rashad McClain
• May 16, 1991
• Daddy Zay
• Spottie Bold
• Zaywop

Isaiah Rashad

• American artist from Chattanooga, Tennessee
• began taking music more serious in 10th grade
• he and his friends would record on laptops

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Isaiah Rashad

• friend of new friend = Rashad's cousin?
• stopped going to university
• next few years recording at local recording studios

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March 2013

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January 28, 2014

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Cilvia Demo

• number 40 at US Billboard 200
• Isaiah Rashad was named to the 2014 XXL freshman class

“I gotta emphasize that this my first project. But in my project Cilvia I just wanna take you on a ride. Imagine like getting off work at like six o’clock, 6 PM. And like you don’t go home. You with your homies. And you get home at 6 AM. That’s what my project is. And I don’t wanna give you like a sum up of my whole life, but I can give you like the past two, three years. I can sum it up in 10 tracks. 10 cool ass tracks and that’s what I’mma give niggas.”

“Imagine being—not necessarily a rapper, but being an artist.
I draw from what’s happening right now all the time. I draw from the conversations that’s happening right now. And all I can think to rap about is I’m around the biggest rapper in the world and my whole life has changed. Like signing [and] being where I’m at really just put me in the middle of all I gotta do is make music. And you never think about how much pressure you can put on yourself when all you gotta do is make music…Rapping and making music [the] only shit that really give me some type of peace of mind.”

(now)Everybody's tellin' me a lie

Lordy give me something for my soul

See, I don't wanna think of suicide
So please don't take the lock key off my door

See, I've been tired of "fucking all these girls"
And I've been tired of "spending all my dough"

And if I gave my story to the world
I wonder if they'd book me for a show

See you can't handle pressure on your own
So why you carry boulder by yourself?

The story’s storyteller tell it wrong

And glorify the horror and the wealth

And Mama call me, tell me coming home

And I just need some guidance in my steps

I know I'm not the only one alone

I know I'm not the only one who felt

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