At the end of the day, we need views, we need this shit. And the fact that it gets you hella attention. I was starting to rap a lot more and I felt myself getting better. You ain’t gotta fucking sell drugs and kill niggas to be the toughest rapper alive. You can have a nine-to-five and work and get paid every week and still be on XXL if you fucking got talent. I want niggas to understand that you can be here, too. I should’ve been on the fucking 2008 class, but it’s OK because I made it here, so it’s really important that I showcase who I am as a regular person even though I’m famous. I’ve been doing music for 12 years and I finally got into the scene last year. Who the fuck won’t fuck with the XXL Freshman Class when they’re putting fresh faces out there? You have to. I would love to be a part of something that really wants to put fresh rappers out there. Those two put you on to all of the unknown, fresh rappers. TRUTH ON BEING AN XXL FRESHMAN: “You know a new rapper because of two things: XXL and SoundCloud.
I was doing a lot of stupid shit that at 14, people shouldn’t be doing. I was trying to fuck every bitch I could. He a bitch.’ I would start fights in the hallway. So, if we were cooling in the hallway and a nigga was talking to a girl, I’d pull up like, ‘You don’t want that nigga. I was really trying to fit in with everybody. AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I was a dickhead.I like that because you don’t always have to be in the street to know about what’s going on so I fuck with that, too.” I love how fast he raps and how he can have a great mindset about what’s going on, on the outside looking in. His intricacy of what he talks about, how he puts it together. I don’t need help, I could do it my fucking self… J. Only because hearing him sing ‘Brand New’ and ‘Say What’s Real’ and everything on So Far Gone just blew my mind. It’s so much music being put out, you don’t know what’s good or not.” It’s a lot of people that I didn’t even mention that need to be on there ’cause, bruh, this shit is hard nowadays. Coi Leray, because she’s so entertaining and she’s gonna bring the people if she’s on there. WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR'S CLASS: “They’re really on there.CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Major label debut album due later this year.TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: TIKTOK: NOTABLE RELEASES: Singles: “Quicksand,” “Switched Up,” “Trenches,” “Big Decisions” Project: Street Sermons Guest Appearances: J.He’s only just begun, but if “Kingdom” is to be believed, he’s not far from obtaining the kind of stability that will really put his mind at ease: “I just want a kingdom for my queen/A castle for my team/Money for the baby’s college fund/Flat-out flexing on ’em, one on one. If Morray is anything throughout Street Sermons, he’s grateful, both for the life experience that informs his music and for the fact that sewing it into song has taken him this far. His flow is notably influenced by gospel harmonies, Morray having grown up around the church, but he’s got a unique command of the pocket, weaving in and out in the 808-heavy production he favours to sing about faith (“That’s On God”), being wary of the people close to him (“Big Decisions”), and also of romantic interests gone awry (“Nothing Now”). “And what don’t break your pockets make your money longer.” The Apple Music Up Next alum’s project is packed with these kinds of platitudes, along with drawn-out testimonies of struggle, the singer recounting-track after track-the hardships he saw growing up poor and proud in the South. Fayetteville singer Morray is here to help: “What don’t kill you make you stronger,” he says during the intro to “Trenches,” the second song from his debut mixtape, Street Sermons.
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