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[INTERVIEW] JORDAN HOLLYWOOD WAS MADE FOR THIS

November 9, 2021

Jordan Hollywood can do it all; from rapping with elite precision, to producing and recording himself, then mixing and mastering his own tracks. The Florida rapper built everything from the ground up, starting by selling verses to rappers in order to save up and get out of his living situation. After working alone for a while, he built his own studio and started his own label, The Wasted Youth. Hollywood’s talent for songwriting eventually caught the eye of Jason Derulo, who recruited Jordan to work with him on his album. By that time, Jordan had numerous labels knocking at his

[INTERVIEW] SAINVIL

February 12, 2021

Meet Sainvil, Florida’s latest rising star in the music world. Setting trends and gifting the world with his refreshing genre-bending sounds, Sainvil combines the smoothness of R&B with the grittiness of hip hop and creates a whole new meaning for the term “hybrid artist.” His project ‘2020 Was Hijacked’, speaks on the notion that everything in the past year was taken from us. Songs like ‘Boxed In’, ‘Sweet Sweet’ and ‘HBK’ give the listener a nostalgic feel, reminiscent of pre-corona times. This week he released a brand new single, ‘Need 2’. VIPER spoke with Sainvil to discuss growing up in

[FEATURE] MY FAVOURITE MIXTAPE: ANIK KHAN

January 20, 2021

What’s your favourite mixtape ever? ‘Da Drought 3’ by Lil Wayne. Why is it so significant to you? I never heard anyone rhyme the shit he was rhyming at the time. He was on another planet and took wordplay to another level. Were there any artists or producers that you discovered through this tape? Nah, but I discovered nobody was fucking with him lol. Where exactly were you when you heard the mixtape for the first time? I was in Orlando, Florida. Being from NYC – seeing the South go crazy over it was something I’ll always remember. Did it

[MAGAZINE] ROBB BANK$

August 9, 2017

2PhoneShawty: Speaking with Robb Bank$ Staying in the spotlight and remaining in the public’s image; these are things that certain artists crave and other artists avoid. For some, like Floridian rapper Robb Bank$, it’s both. The 22-year-old underground sensation started gaining attention around the same time that he was able to legally drive a car. From the jump, he found himself in the limelight both publicly via shows as well as through Internet fame, in particular thanks to Tumblr. Don’t forget, his first Twitter handle was TumblrGod. Entering the scene back in 2012 with the mixtape ‘Calendars’, Bank$ was still

[MAGAZINE] AMERICANA

July 3, 2015

Spending my final 48 hours in New York bleaching the walls and floors of my shitty Bushwick railroad apartment, in an attempt to remove two years worth of cigarette smoke and get my deposit back, could be described as a rather unceremonious exit from the city that never sleeps. However what we were about to embark upon, after rescuing a sedated Milkavelli from a dimly lit opium den in New Jersey, was a road trip often cited as The One To End All Others. Well it was. Here are a selection of photographs taken somewhere during a 7,000 mile long