The Green Room: Veeze at Lollapalooza

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00:00I read that you had a project finished, and it was going to be Ganger, and then you decided

00:07to rework.

00:08Is that right?

00:09Rework the project?

00:10Yeah, something like that.

00:12What motivated that, or inspired that change?

00:15I don't know, really just feeling like it was a project.

00:18I like to feel like it's a project, not just a list of songs, but I gotta get that feeling,

00:24and I gotta, like, wrap that feeling, you know what I'm saying?

00:29Is it something like that you feel with the connection with the production, or the connection

00:33with you and where you're at in life?

00:35I mean, like, each song was a different day, and me thinking different, going in a different

00:40mood, different vibe, different environment.

00:44But it is important to me to, like, to the point I feel it's good, and I know my fans

00:54gonna feel the same way.

00:55So when you were starting out, did you ever feel the, like, pressure to be someone else,

01:01or maybe to change your voice, or to try to hop on beats that were like this because those

01:05were popular?

01:06Or how did you get to the point where, you know, you're a very singular artist, but how

01:11did you get comfortable to be just these, and not be like anything else?

01:14I don't follow trends and stuff, so that's just how I make music, like, totally opposite.

01:20If there's things going like this, or there's certain trends going on in the culture, I'm

01:26gonna go.

01:27It don't matter whoever like it, like it.

01:30Right, so you're gonna go right?

01:32I'll try again.

01:33You gon' go.

01:34Yeah.

01:35So thinking about your process from 2019 to 2024, how has that process changed, and how

01:42has your process stayed the same?

01:44I don't know, I be just, I be at the studio a lot.

01:48Back then I used to be kind of like lazy, yeah, but now I love rapping.

01:57I love what my fans love, I love performing and stuff, so it's just like falling deeper

02:03in love with the craft, and wanting to be better than I was the last time.

02:08Yeah, I think that's like, that's a really special thing to know that that's what you're

02:12sacrificing and doing all this for.

02:14You know, like, I don't know exactly what's on the other side of it, but I know that I

02:18have to show up and work and approach it this way and really take it serious, because

02:22I love this thing.

02:24So a lot of people on the internet have been saying, be the president, have you seen that?

02:29They're looking at you like you're, it's Obama 08, because of your bar.

02:33You said make hating illegal, right?

02:35Which I very much would like that to happen, but if there, what else could we add to that

02:39list?

02:40If you were president, if you were in the Oval Office, what else would we make illegal?

02:48Too young kids with guns.

02:53Too much, they got too much access to guns, too young, and be strict around that.

03:04Violence being shown, like, they should stop showing, like, when somebody get killed on

03:09camera, like, they shouldn't show it.

03:11Right.

03:12A lot, that's a few things, but I don't want to, I ain't a politician.

03:18We're just trying to make hating illegal one bar at a time.

03:22That's all we can do.

03:23Yeah.

03:24That's all we can do.

03:25So you just announced your tour, and you have Caribou, and you have Starbands, right?

03:30Opening.

03:31Swizz Havoc and Starbands, Caribou, I'm still waiting to see what it's gonna be, but yeah.

03:40What made you want to choose those people to get the crowd ready for you?

03:44They people who I'm a fan of, and I mean, we all a fan of each other, but just like

03:51that, fuck with them, I fuck with their movement and what they got going on.

03:55I met Wiz having a bunch of times, he'd come to concerts and perform with me, and performed

04:03his songs for me when we was in Florida, here, Florida, so whenever I'm in Florida, if he

04:08around here, come do a song and rock the crowd, I fuck with Wiz.

04:12I fuck with Starband, she a young woman who, shit, first time I seen her, she just been

04:18on fire.

04:19I like that.

04:20I like that.

04:22Is there anyone that you think that we're not listening to that we should be?

04:26I don't know.

04:27I listen to all my friends, man.

04:28I feel like all my friends is like the best rappers, like that, but I really like, I like

04:35Tommy Richmond, I like M. Triplett, who else?

04:43I like Boss Bandilo, there's a lot of people who I feel like, they growing, but I feel

04:54like still a lot more people, I feel like they should know those people.

05:00Yeah, all of them, Sam Shabazz, that's my homie, Nutty Loz, Nutty and Loz, they real

05:13dope.

05:14I got a lot of dope friends, so I feel like they gonna catch the right song and blow up

05:20though.

05:21It's very clear that you're a fan of music and you're a fan of your friends, like just

05:26before this, you were at Sexy Set and I love that because like you said earlier, it's like

05:31you're a student of this craft and in order to do that, you have to look at your peers

05:35and be like, respect it, like when you see parts of yourself and what they're doing,

05:39whether it's just like choosing to be themselves or representing their own kind of sounds,

05:43like you have to respect it and like show that love.

05:45I like that, it's a little bit of, you know what I'm saying, that's where we, that's where

05:50we're similar at like doing our own thing and not caring what people think, I like that,

05:56man.

05:57It's actually cool though, that's my guy, we like this, we always laughing and DMing

06:02each other funny stuff, so she's cool as hell, she reminds me of one of my cousins or like

06:09the girls I grew up with for real.

06:12So before we get out of here, I want to think about your music, obviously you rep Detroit,

06:17so I want to know what's one thing that's like undeniably Detroit about the music that

06:23you make and the sound that you create and then one thing that is completely just out

06:28of Michigan, out of space, like out of world, I want to look at the, I want to look at your

06:33sound a little bit.

06:34I just don't, I just don't do nobody, I don't do what other people do, I don't go with trends,

06:38that's, that's really, that's really my main thing, I just stay of course doing me, I don't

06:44want to change and I'm still always be a fan, I'm still always be a fan while I'm being

06:49an artist too.

06:50Oh yeah, that's, that's a big part of it, like I still be a fan, I still be a fan, I

06:56still fans a lot of my, my peers and my friends that I consider family.

07:03We all like help each other get better.

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