What’s good everyone! Today, we are back with another interview! We speak with the very talented upcoming Los Angeles artist Macc Dolo. Macc raps about the ups and downs of life and always remaining ready to move forward. Macc has great ear for picking for production that goes good with his flow and storytelling. In the interview, we discuss growning up in California, 50 Cent being his favorite rapper, plans for the rest of year and more!
Check out the interview below and stream the music below!
1. Where are you from and what was it like growing up there?
Im from California where they run up on you…I was born in the valley but as soon as i was born we moved to LA like fresh out the wound type shit so basically i started off in Los Angeles running around being a baybay kid hangin outside sliding 5-7 deep with bikes and skateboards just havin fun being a kid fuccin up shit in the city slappin boxing with the homies going to the park having mud fights and shit like that i lost my first fight at the park i was in the second grade he was in the 5th. Ol boy was bigger then me and he gave me one in the eye i aint gone hold you i DROPPED….FAST hahaha but yea that was the last fight i lost and after that the whole blocc pressed him about me, the older homies pressed him my cousin from watts came and wanted to press his brother my dad was sitting out side they shit and all type of stuff haha but yea having shoot outs with bean shooters if you know what those are, throwing eggs at moving cars, shooting cap guns at police like its a drive by and this was all in elementary real shit, but yea i lived on queen st, i lived on hazel st all in inglewood i lived on manchester and belford by randys donuts i think that is but it was fun im glad i kinda moved from out there cause i woulda been worst then what i am i feel like because i was always outside with older people, i was coming in the house late and my mom wouldnt trip cause i was her only boy and my dad wasnt living with me so she let me be a boy cause she knew she couldnt raise a man she could just give me pointers here n there i lived in culver city as well thats where my dad stayed with my step mom at the time, so even when i went over there i was the only boy until my lil brother came along later down the line but it was a time i was the only boy sitting around 5 females which are all my sisters i got 4 sisters and one brother plus two step sisters i been around my whole life, my pops ended up going to jail when i was in the 4th grade hes been there before but this time he was in there for a cooooool minute i cant remember exactly how it happened but i just know he aint come home that next day to take me to school and i would over here convos and i was just like damn but i was a kid so i didnt fully know how to feel i just knew he was on a vacation as some pple say and after that like later on in that year me my mom my oldest sister and my new born sister from my mom side moved to the valley and ever since then i been living in the valley, i would visit la here n there but i stayed mostly in the valley but dont get it twisted cause for some reason niggas think valley niggas is soft type shit and all that but i aint no valley nigga ima cali nigga just like how master P said “it aint where you from every nigga get rowdy”
2. What music inspired you growing up?
Growing up I’ve listened to a lot, but I can say dmx is one of them who inspired me he was actually my first favorite rapper until 50 cent came a long…suga free inspired me a lot that street gospel album top 10 in my eyes might be top 5 stop playin, the whole cash money movement i lowkey wanted to be like them niggas cause they made it look fun but i can say 50 cent fasho schoolboy q, nip the great of course but he inspired me in a business type of way more then just music he made me feel like i can go get what i wanted in life just sticc to the script rip that nigga nip and honestly my cousin Wst. Taylor inspired me as well cause how focused and ambitious he was towards the music like his drive and love for it made me find a love for it rather then a liking so with out him i probably wouldnt be rappin.
3. You told me 50 Cent was your favorite rapper, what about 50 Cent stuck out to you?
50 cent is my favorite rapper of all time he the top of the top but the way he came out to the scene stucc on me cause he just came out like nigga im here do something about it tank top hummer throw away the ja rule toy lol and you would see the nigga every where type shit and at that time big screen tvs was a thing so the first time i seen him was on the big screen and ima kid playing outside and shit and mtv jams was always on in my house type shit and i would run past the tv to go outside but if i heard 50 I’d stop watch the video the whole way then keep it pushin everytime it never failed. 50 cent had a video game like 50 was that nigga man. As he got older he turned himself into a mogul type shit all around business man so i thrive on trying to complete that for myself.
4. What is your favorite 50 Cent project?
My favorite album of 50 cent was get rich or die trying cause the songs on the album sounded like he was tryna get rich amd die trying, he was hungry on them traccs, he had diss records on a album that album killed murder inc type shit like that album is great from start to finish and after that he dropped the massacre and that album to me was like yea nigga i made it i can pop my shit now i can relax a bit type shit like im here
5. Tell us about your latest track titled “Chirp”.
My lastest tracc dropped is a song called chirp, thats what we called nextel phones when they was poppin cause of the walkie talkie in it everybody had a chirp type shit lol early 2000 was fun but yea its basically takin me bacc to my younger days where we use to steal them from people and sell them or trade them type shit nextel and ipods in the stash spot i use to take those too i came across more ipods then nextels though but i had a fair share with both and i aint gone say i was the man and had all them but i had enough i can say and the song just touches bases on me growing up my dad going to jail my moms literally puttin it on her shoulders she tried to make any and everything possible for us literally she always found a way and i love and respect her for that rip…but yea it just touches on everyday living what happens to people in streets rather its selling dope gettting robbed etc
6. How would you describe your last project Underdogg?
Underdogg was a project slept on in my eyes its one of my best projects out to me if u really sit there and listen to it im talking my shit but around that time i was feeling like the underdogg i was feeling like im not getting the recognition i deserve fucc a want but yea i just u know had to talk my shit on it thats how i came up with missunderstood, mon-sun, and lamelo and it was just time to show these pple what i can do because i only dropped one project before that one and that was around the time i just started rappin so with this one i felt like birdman put some respect on my name haha.
7. If you could work with any artist or producer who would it be?
Im tryna work with who ever wanna work with me honestly but off some throw in the air type shit i wanna work with 42 dugg fasho, pooh shiesty, ScHoolboy Q, r3 da chilliman and NeroYL i mean its a lot of people i wanna work with but those are some.
8. What plans do you have for the rest of 2022?
The rest of this year since we already half way through it im just tryna finish the year strong build a fan base build relationships, get this money, and basically elevate my music because i feel slept on still which is cool cause they gone wake up but the main part is to get this money and work on my craft, im tryna work on bars and delivery just making sure im solid full circle when it come to the music.
9. Tell us about one or two things that motivates you when you get into the studio.
To be honest i just know i be having some hot shit in the vault so i be excited or anxious to hear how it sound on wax sometimes im satisfied sometimes im not sometimes i gotta switch some shit up but me just knowing i gotta get this bread for me and who ever around me is enough motivation for me.
10. Anything else you want the world to know…
ITS THE MUTHAFUCCIN MACC!!
