Famous Fila Tells a Story with "Just A Few Songs"

The I&C Blog had the pleasure of interviewing Famous Fila. He is an up and coming artist from the Bay Area paving his own way with hard work, persistence, and dedication.  Check out his debut mixtape titled "Just A Few Songs," music video, and interview below:

Q: Who are your influences? When you were coming up which artists did you listen to?

When I came up as a young boy I listened to more R&B, like Immature, Donnell Jones, and R. Kelly ... Jodeci, like real life R&B, soulful stuff. I really wasn't into the rap scene like that, but I was a HUGE HUGE "Master P" fan. Everyone said I look like "Silk the Shocker" and that I talk like him ... I was just a huge P fan, you couldn't tell me nothing about the "TANK". Those were definitely my influences.

Q: If you could compare yourself to an even more established artist than yourself, who would that be and why? Who is your hip hop hero?

Honestly, I wouldn't even know. ... Hmmm ... I guess not AN artist but a group (genre) ... Like the Travis Porter's,cause they make those bounce, shake yo ass songs but also do the RAP&B stuff too. I got the BAY AREA in me as well so I gotta do what we like here too, but also step out the box. I'm loving Atlanta's whole style ... people from the south basically. I'm Hip Hop, Rap, R&B. I mean that's what's hot right now so you have to do whats hot to stay relevant. But uhh ... I'm in a few genre's and I go where I want to so I couldn't really compare myself to anybody honestly. 

 Q: What do you think your listeners will get out of your music?

They will get a lot of heart felt stories about my past relationships, and current ones (relationships) I want to have. There is certain stuff I am going through right now ... like I am going through so many things. I am probably late blooming right now, because I am doing things I should have done when I was eighteen and seventeen, but I am doing it now. I'm experiencing a lot of things in life that I have never done and seen before. So my listeners will hear things and connect like "oh I've seen that before" or "oh I want to do that" or "I want to try that." Mostly you will get the songs about heartbreak ... (laughs)... How I got my heart broken in middle school, high school, my college years. Like the Rap and B version of a Keyshia Cole I hate you, f*** you song.

    Q: What were you thinking about when you were developing your single?

Well, the thing about Take No More ... I was in my room and I had two shots of Hennessy. (Laughs) I'm just keeping it honest with you. I was sitting here and i didn't go to work that night. I usually work graveyard. So the singer on the song text me about doing a song together. At the time I was reviewing beats and I was like "I'm not feeling any of these." So I took two shots and I started thinking about my ex-girlfriend and how she didn't support me through NOTHING ... the song says "I gotta go" she says "Why?" "I gotta let my wings fly." So I was damn near drunk and thinking about how she didn't support me. Alcohol influence, that emotional liquid courage (laughs).  

Q: What made you want to get into the rap industry?

Uhhhhhh ... Actually one of my friends that I rap with, his name is "Thee Juice OJ", he bought a studio back when we was 19-20 and he never used it. Then one of my friends came home from college (he went to Oregon State). He told us he had a song he wanted us to help him with or help him do and he was like .".. ummm ... help me out". I had a verse in my phone and I was "spittin" it for him. He was like "that goes perfect with the song, hop on the track with me." So we all hopped on the song,(P.A.T Semaj Young Ezz The Juice and I) it still isn't out yet. It sucked actually (laughs), because it was our first, first one ... no preparation, nothing ... It was just garbage. So we did the song and were like, "this is kinda fun, I like doing this with ya'll," and we continued doing it and we all found our own lanes for taking it seriously.

   Before that, in high school, I used to write poems a lot. I got my heart broken and I would write a poem in five minutes, type it up, print it out ... you know paper was free in high school (laughs) ... So I would print it out and give em to girls on Valentine's Day, just random chicks. Then I started getting into the freaky stuff like started talking nasty, and this one chick tried to fight me like "yo this is dedicated to me?" and I was like "No, I just wrote it. I didn't plan on you taking it to heart." I didn't know the impact of my words. I didn't know it was that powerful, and she took it seriously, so that's how it started. Through my High School life, I was always writing I never put nothin' down because I was always shy. Always scared to be on the mic or on camera until the time in the studio with OJ that one night.

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