姓名: D.Julien 英文名:- 性别:男 国籍:美国 出生地:- 语言:- 生日:- 星座:- 身高:- 体重:-
Can you imagine the artist whose goal is to capture a demographic ranging from the Post-Tweens to the Thirty-Somethings of Urban Music, so will rethink the idea of musical content? An artist who explores a range of music as vast as Big L, Nas and T.I. to Kings of Leon and Coldplay because of their lyricism? Or even an artist whose dream collaborations would include Kanye West and Pharrell…but only for their production and NOT for their verses? This artist does, in fact, exist…meet D. Julien.
D. Julien’s past is as critical to understanding his artistry as his present and future. Ask Julien, he’ll tell you he started rhyming at 10 years old; but his close friends will tell you that age was actually 7. The first album he listened to was a CD by Notorious B.I.G. entitled “Ready to Die”. It was that moment when Julien stumbled across the artistic medium of expression he had been seeking. For this Flatbush-bred Brooklynite, influences like B.I.G. and Jay-Z were “local artists that I didn’t see as global” because they were from his borough. With a father who was a DJ, Julien learned at a young age the importance of lyricists like Jadakiss, Nas, and Big L because “these were the artists my pops had laying around: lyrical dudes who told stories” and who were tangible to this youngster because of his locale. By age 13, he’d be cutting his teeth as a battle rapper, gaining confidence with each victory. And by 16, Julien would leave the battle circuit to embark on the journey of structuring songs