T.H.S.N.B. X FLOW X NEW NEIGHBOR X ICE WAVE X JANE_DOUGH
T.H.S.N.B What’s good FLOW? How you feeling? Where did you get the name FLOW?
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FLOW:I'm good can't complain. I got the name flow in high school when I first started rapping. My shit was just always a lil different from every bodies and I could switch up crazy so they called me flow and it just stuck.
T.H.S.N.B.The Hood Shopping Network Blog is interested in the environment in which an artist is nurtured commonly known as their “hood” or neighborhood. Where is FLOW's hood?
FLOW:My hood is HARLEM from uptown to downtown. I'm originally from 120th between lenox and 7th then I moved to 133rd in 7th then to 150th in the dunbar to now 140th so I been all around.
T.H.S.N.B: Tell us why you love your hood? What are the first things you think of when your hood is brought up?
FLOW: I love my hood cause there's nowhere like it. When I think of my hood I think of the innovators,money makers the grind motivation which comes in many different forms.
FLOW: I would have to say from a youngin when I found my uncles old kool moe dee records to his big daddy Kane joints to getting to junior high listening to big l, the Lox, big, mase, dmx, dame grease the whole vacant lot etc I had a bunch of influences.
T.H.S.N.B: Management is very important for an independent or signed artist. Do you have management or a street team? How did you become affiliated with your team?
FLOW: I wouldn't say management exactly but I do have a close net group of ppl that help me with everything I do. Most of my team are ppl that I've known for years and who I trust beyond music and business it's really family like.
T.H.S.N.B: What area have most of your performances in the past been held? What has been your favorite performance so far?
FLOW: I've done a little of everything. Open mics all throughout NYC, colleges in the city and ct, my favorite performance may have to be one we did (off gang) did in donhills for a magazine that we actually placed third In. It was just a genuine effort we all put forth it will stick out in my mind as being supa dope.
T.H.S.N.B: Do you have any upcoming shows? Where can we see you perform in the future?
FLOW: Nah no upcoming shows as of now. Working on music but if anybody wants to know if I'll be performing they can check my twitter page out @cakeface_flow I'll keep y'all posted there.
T.H.S.N.B: What position do you feel that you are playing in the NYC underground hip-hop industry? What is your latest single? Where can we find it?
FLOW: I feel like I'm bringing that voice back that flow just that genuine shit like on all levels of music. My latest single is "I want you back" it'll be up for download in a week or so we bout to shoot the video for that in a few weeks should be mean.
T.H.S.N.B: Who do you anticipate to work with in the future? (Producers, Directors, Artists, Engineers, etc.)
FLOW:Top of my list producers wise I would have to say Ryan Leslie artist wise my group mates O.F.F GANG and I wouldnt mind
working with vado and jada kiss
T.H.S.N.B: Out of all the expressions that you could have chose, why did you choose hip-hop?
FLOW: I choose hip hop cause I was always a shit talker lol so my teachers in school use to tell me turn those smart ass remarks into "poems" I'm like a poem nah I'll try to rap tho and I always was Witty and had a decent vocabulary so it just made sense
T.H.S.N.B: How do you use hip-hop in your everyday life?
FLOW: From the way I dress, talk, think hip hop is me on the regular
T.H.S.N.B: How are you spreading the medication and education of hip-hop in your area?
FLOW: I got a 17 year old brother so I'm constantly telling him about what he should listen to and what hip hop really is I always try to enlighten him and his friends with bars from myself or other artist and also letting them know it's more to hip hop then the commercial shit they see on tv and hear on radio.
T.H.S.N.B: How do you think that open MIC’s will contribute to the up and coming artist in your hood?
FLOW: I think it'll help us all get better from the way we perform to the content of our songs to be it gives you a senseof professionalism like this is really your job so we always have to take it serious.
T.H.S.N.B: Artist are nurtured, encouraged, enriched, patronized, and appreciated by many people. Please list your shout outs for this question.
FLOW: S/O the whole off gang jones, meek, free Brizi free L.A, Marty, Work, my sis Slim, Thicky,Chif,Nici,Niecy Juss, Kick,Swan Shmoove, Wiggs the whole regular, my lil bro Jay , Raynell, Corey O, AD, tim tek, and G. and any and everybody else who supports me and my music it's greatly appreciated.
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