Today we’d like to introduce you to Yung Haze.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was influenced to do music around the age of 13 by my step dad at that time. He would take me to photo shoots and studio sessions. I liked the vibes and the aura that surrounded me. Although I was a swimmer in high school music was more of my knack. I had plenty of notebooks filled with random lyrics that I just thought about throughout the day. I recorded my first song in 10th grade. I just wanted to see how I would sound. The feeling I had recording was indescribable it felt like what I was meant to do. I stopped making music for a while but I always had a passion for it. My phone still had notes with catchy rhymes that would pop up in my head.
Around 18 I fell into depression about a lot of personal things and writing and listening to beats seemed like my only outlet. It didn’t matter to me if other people heard it or not it was a way for me to release emotions I couldn’t say.. a lot of my friends at the time were into music also but they didn’t make the type of music i could get into. I had to separate myself from society to find myself and my sound. Now at 27 years old I am more confident in myself and the music I can produce. My lyrics are more in depth and more personal for me. In my eyes I am not a “rapper” I am an artist. I don’t just make music about “killing an opp”. My music is more so widespread. I even made my own genre in music because I make so many different types. I call it hip pop & B.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Of course it hasn’t been a smooth road. I hit a lot of obstacles along the way. My depression took a hold on me for a while and I couldn’t focus on music. My grandmother died in front of me and then I became a young dad on top of that I dealt with homelessness at the time. I just didn’t have the drive anymore. I had to dig myself out of a hole. I didn’t have a mom or a dad so I was lost a lot of times. I had to figure things out on my own. When my other two kids came along I just knew I had to get it together. I had to make a way for them. I didn’t always have the money for studio time or buying beats but I still knew deep inside music is what I wanted to do.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Everyone knows me for being an artist. I’ve even written songs for others and had features with another artist. I am most proud of my kid’s 1st and how they have forced me to become more of a man than I could’ve been on my own and now owning my own studio. I also engineer my own songs. I also go as far as investing into my own promotions and marketing. I found my sound working alone so that’s really how I like to create.
What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
I’ve learned that everything comes at a price. Nothing you want will ever be given to you; it’s earned. My journey has been tough because I didn’t have the following that others had making the kind of music they do. That’s kind of what made me shy away at 1st was the fact that I wasn’t gaining the same attention. So I learned how to be myself and show off more of what made me vs trying to out do others.
Contact Info:
- Email: Iamyunghaze@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/iamyunghaze/
- Other: https://linktr.ee/Yunghaze
Image Credits
Deaundre Jordan
