D.Julien Interview

In the past few days I've been serving you guys some music from a cat known as D.Julien out of Brooklyn. This dude is the real deal, and he knows how to spit. He's got a style all his own, and a charisma that's highly noticable. He released his first mixtape, Let Me Introduce Myself, July 17th, and it has been getting some serious buzz around the majestic internet.

I figured it would be wise to let you guys get to know this man a little better, so I had a chance to exchange a few words with him.


Let's kick this thing off. For all of those who haven't downloaded your mixtape, I'll let you introduce yourself.

I'm D.Julien and I'm from Brooklyn. To sum it all up really, I'm the future of music. I'm not here to "save" hip hop. I'm here to bring the art of lyricism and substance back to rap music in an attempts to move music forward. The evolution.


Speaking of hip hop; what is hop hop to you?

Hip Hop to me is a culture. It's a way of life. Within the Hip Hop culture there's fashion, customs and there's music; Rap and R n B being the most listened to genres if you will. It's a movement.


You're from Brooklyn, and you have a very New York style; Do you think that growing up in NY influenced the way you write ryhmes?

Definitely. What you hear me make music about is what I've seen, experienced, heard, read, etc in the World period but primarily New York because I'm from here. New York is the mecca of Hip Hop so for me being from New York, I feel like anything generic or fabricated would be disrespectful to the pioneers and the Hip Hop Culture as a whole, you know?


I definitely know what you're saying. Since we're on the subject of New York, there's another MC out of New York known as Mikey Factz. I've heard you mention that you hate being compred to another rapper, but I couldn't help comparing you guys together. Not to say that you guys have a similar flow, style, or rhyme scheme, because I truly think yours is pretty original, but the sound of your voice, to me at least, is really similar; have you heard that before?

I've never heard that honestly until now. Because I did the "Incredible Remix" my name was linked with his shortly but only because of that. I personally do not see a comparison what so ever whether it be lyrically, the voice, whatever. But there'll always be comparisons whether artist like it or not. I'm just worried about D.Julien and what I plan to do with music. I can't worry about the comments or whatever the case may be.


Word man. What inspires D.Julien?

Everything within life inspires me to do music man. The goals that I've placed for my family and myself inspires me to work even harder than the next artist.


D.Juliens Top 5:
MC's you'd want to collaborate with.
Girls you'd smash.
Cereals.

Top 5 artist I'd collaberate with right now: Nas, Common, Lupe, Kanye, Jay-Z.
Top 5 girls I'd smash: Lauren London, Meagan Good, Pinky could slide through lol , Free and Hoopz. That's my all star line up. No disrespect to none of these females obviously but just my thoughts lol.
Top 5 cereals:
Corn Flakes, Lucky Charms, Raisin Bran, Captain Crunch and you can't forget the Cheerios.


The one thing you can't live without?

My family.


What do you think about the overuse of Auto-Tune in rap recently?

To keep it brief, It's getting annoying. I'm not a fan of hearing that used by artist at all. You'd never hear that used by me.


Good, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. Well, that's it for me man, any last thoughts or shoutouts?

Thanks for the interview and you'll hear the name D.Julien a lot in future. Shout out to everyone making great music.

So that's that guys. Once again, thanks to D for the chance to have him featured on the site, you guys will definitely be hearing more from him.

Check him out on myspace at myspace.com/djulien