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Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Solodoloroze of Carrollton GA

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Solodoloroze shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Hi Solodoloroze, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
First off I want to give a huge thank you to Voyage for allowing me to work with you guys again it’s been some years and it’s good to have this opportunity with you guys again! Truly a blessing. From what I’m seeing it seems like everyone or well a lot of people seem to struggle with being their true genuine selves. It’s almost as if everyone is chasing an imaginary identity that comes from who they see on social media and who they look up to. I also feel like it has a lot to do with the community a lot of people come up in. There’s no real leaders anymore that are telling people.. “hey you don’t have to be like this person or that person..they’re already somebody…who are you going to be?” I just think we lack a huge amount of originality nowadays.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Daniel De La Rosa my stage name is Solodoloroze. Roze like the flower just with a Z. I’m an upcoming artist/youtuber from the city of Carrollton Georgia I am 25 years old, and I’m a Capricorn if anyone is curious. I’m the CEO and founder of my upcoming label “14000 Underground”. Music has always been apart of my life, but i decided to put the pen to the paper after watching my big sister do gospel rap that was when I was about 8 years old. Seeing her be so awesome at her craft really inspired me to get into rapping. We made our first gospel song together called “Third Day”. A lot of people looked at me differently once I stopped gospel rapping, but I just felt like I had more to say that I couldn’t really say if I was just labeling myself a “gospel rapper” though I have made songs that I’m not necessarily proud of all I can do now is correct my wrongs and make music that is true to me and true to God. Now that I’m getting older I try to stray away from making music that lacks substance and meaning. While you can’t go wrong with a nice catchy song that’s for the vibes..my heart and mind just has more to say right now in this stage of my rap career.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
I feel like dishonesty is the main thing that can easily break just about any bond…whether that bond was strong or not. Once you form a bond with someone it’s like a new form of trust that you just established with someone. People don’t really look at honesty like it’s a big deal, but to someone like me honesty is everything once you’ve shown me that you’re a dishonest person and you can’t be trusted you won’t even exist to me anymore that’s just how I protect my peace these days yunno? As far as bonds being restored I feel like that strictly depends on the persons. For example I just came out of a back and forth with a fellow rapper from my city and our bond broke because of his dishonesty. Do I feel the need to restore that bond with him? Absolutely not. Why? He’s shown me who he is as a person and I respectfully don’t care to keep a bond like that in my life. Especially if a person like that never changes their ways either. Consider it as if we never met.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Man…people don’t realize it, but suffering can be beautiful. Suffering can determine who you become as a person and it can shape who you chose to be in this life. People want success, but don’t want to suffer and struggle to get it. Suffering teaches you discipline. Success is what we think we want, but at the end of the day success comes with so much more work that a lot of people aren’t capable of handling. That’s why you need to suffer before you make it. You need to do more than just make music and promote it. You need suffer now so when success comes you’ll be like..”man this ain’t shit bring it on”. Suffering is only bad when you look at it negatively, but if you keep a positive thought in the back of your head that this suffering will be worth it one day…whatever comes with the success will be a breeze for you. Suffering has taught me that if I can’t handle the suffering before success…I’m screwed when success comes.

Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. Whom do you admire for their character, not their power?
Oh man I love this question. Drake fans will hate me haha, but someone I’ve always admired for their character and not their power is Kendrick Lamar. Not just because of the beef, but I’ve always studied how he moves as an artist- well really as a person. He literally puts it all in the music and doesn’t feel the need to explain himself. I mean when you think about it it’s really beautiful because music is art. When you go to a art museum and see a beautiful painting it’s up to you to pull your own meaning from that painting and I think Kendrick does an amazing job at leaving it to us to receive our own messages from his music. Also I admire his morals and professionalism as a rapper because let’s just be honest it is extremely rare these days to see rappers standing on high morals not even in their music, but just as a person in general. I could go on, but Kendrick is definitely someone I’ve admired for a long time for his character.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
Wow I love this one..let me just say this..I truly have felt misunderstood for a long time. I think when people see me doing my thing as a rapper they probably think I’m just trying to blow up and be rich and famous…nah not at all. This is everything to me bro. When people see me I want them to know…”yo Roze is a bad motherf***er that man can do it all”. I don’t want people seeing me as just another rapper- no I am that guy. I think people misunderstand what I’m doing this for…I’m not just here to give y’all catchy bops to vibe to I truly want to make an impact with my music and bring a different message that’s what I hope to do on my next album that’s coming next year.

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