Today we’d like to introduce you to Yvng Bangerzz.
Yvng, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I started my life in south Fulton on Clevland avenue and grew up loving music even watching tv as a child I was obsessed with the whistling melody that I heard on one of my favorite cartoons shows “Ed, Edd, and Eddy” I’ve always had a passion for music because of my Dad and my uncle they both grew up knowing how to sing and play instruments and had every old school record you could name. Because of them, I was introduced into many different kinds of genres at a young age, but over the years, I never thought about being the one who would make the instrumentals for a song. I’ve always been big on expressing myself and encouraging others to do the same. Music allows all of us to heal from a lot of major mental problems like depression, anxiety, self-doubt, etc. At 19 I wanted to make beats after I came across the true lifestyle that comes with making beats and what you are actually doing and I noticed how fun it seemed I wanted to make my career be specialized in just being a beatmaker at first I told my parents and they told me I wouldn’t be able to be one unless I go to school for it and I truly believed that so my first initial plan was to go to school to be a beatmaker at this time I didn’t know anything about beats until one day I was working in the parking lot of Kroger and I came across a customer who randomly asked me did I know anyone who wanted to buy beats and I told him, no but I want to learn and he offered to teach me and the rest was history. To get to where I am now was not a very easy road there were so many more times than I could count that I wanted to give up so many times that I wanted to just stop doing music all together everything in music was difficult for me to learn how to do. But I grew a very heavy habit of going to YouTube and watching “how-to” videos on everything you can think of from Youtubers named KyleBeats, BroBeatz, Internet money, and Chuki Beats. I’ve been making music for about almost four years, and now I’m 24 with a lot under my belt and a lot more to get.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Making melodies, doing the drums, keeping things on tempo, wondering why some sounds didn’t come out how I wanted them to come out, trying to bring attention to my name, being left on seen inside of other rappers messages on Instagram not knowing what an interface is for real speakers instead of headphones for mixing, how important it is to keep upgrading your sounds/equipment, learning how to structure a beat, making beats that sound like they can be used not just because they sound good, battling beat block all of these things almost chased me away from this passion that I am so deeply in love with and over time I thought about it and I realized that every step that I take would lead me to where I’m going it might just take a while and I had to be patient.
Please tell us about Beat Maker/Producer.
I have an entire producer team behind me called “WavRunnerz” in total we have 16 producers including me this summer marks two years since the birth of this team and together we have major placements with a lot of artists in the music game right now like Hoodrich Pablo Juan, Gunna, Skooly, yungmal, etc. I feel like my team stand out more than any other producer is because we came together and left our pride at the door and helped each other out and asked for help when needed and give a lot back to the producer community free of charge and still manage to make profit from rappers through beat stars and obtain placements at the same time while building a family that all are hungry for the same goal.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My favorite memory from childhood is jumping from an entire flight of stairs and not breaking any bones just to prove a point to my friend I wasn’t a chicken, and when I told him to do it, he chickened out, and I won a dollar.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://bsta.rs/48d033eb
- Phone: 6787519532
- Email: southside5673@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yvngbangerzz_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dickerson.1000
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bravo__jonny
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