Rexx Life Raj
Bay Area rapper Rexx Life Raj drops by HollywoodLife’s NYC studio while promoting his release, ‘Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There’
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Cierra Ramirez and Trevor Jackson
“ ‘Broke Us’ is about kind of a crossroads in your relationship, when you’re kind of starting to wonder if the damage that’s been done…if you can come back from it,” Cierra told us about her collaboration with Trevor Jackson. “I’ve known Trevor for years, I respect him so much as an artist, he’s amazing, and it just kind of made sense to put him on the song.”
Audien & Sydney Sierota of Echosmith
“It came from a really personal place for me,” Echosmith’s Sydney Sierota said about working with DJ and producer Audien on their “Favorite Sound” song. “It’s about you know, dealing with your thoughts and all the things that go on in there and how sometimes it can just feel so overwhelming.”
Rexx Life Raj
“I would say the biggest growth was finding myself sonically and trusting that there’s a lane for my sound,” Rexx Life Raj said to us after he released Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There. “That growth came in the form of trusting myself.”
GASHI
“I looked up, and I saw [ASAP Rocky’s] face on a billboard,” Gashi said when describing his rise to rap fame, “and it was someone that I knew before it all happened for him, and I think he motivated me. I use him as an example. If he could do it, why can’t I?”
Skylar Grey
“I’m just a chameleon, basically. I want to write in every genre and go where the universe takes me. I follow the energy,” Skylar Grey said when discussing her concept album, Angel With Tattoos. “Who knows? It could end up with a hundred songs, it could stop at five.”
Veronica Vega
“Seeing that it’s growing and continuing to grow rapidly makes me happy,” Veronica Vega said when her collaboration with Migos’ Quavo, “A Million,” took off. “I’m not too shocked because I thought Quavo was going to help me get these views!”
Ryan Hurd
“It’s crazy thinking about my story, because there was a lot of moving parts,” Ryan Hurd told HollywoodLife, “but I’m at the point, after the last two years, where I’m like, ‘Okay, this is really fun. This is finally really, really, really fun.’ ”
Caroline Jones
“I’ve been wanting to release new music and I’m always creating, but recording has kind of taken a back seat to touring because we’ve been on the road so much,” Caroline Jones told HollyowodLife ahead of the release of the Chasin’ Me EP.
Mallrat
“To me, personal and detailed and vulnerable songs are kind of, I don’t know, I feel like it’s the reason I write songs,” Mallrat told HollywoodLife, “because they’re the ones that connect the most and mean the most to people so, I feel like I wouldn’t be doing this job properly if I wasn’t putting myself out there like that.”
Julian Lamadrid
“I was trying to write a record that was honest and about something that I knew, and I couldn’t write about love cause I’d never been in love,” Julian Lamadrid told HollywoodLife about his Mala Noche album. “And, and I couldn’t write about heartbreak cause you know, I’ve never had my heartbroken. And so, I really just reflected on myself and like what I’ve actually been through and what I’ve, what experiences I can ride upon.”
Diplomacy
Diplomacy – ‘How to Get Away with Murder’s Jack Falahee and Tim Wu, aka Elephante – brought their style, sophistication and swag to HollywoodLife before chatting about their new music.
Blanco Brown
Blanco Brown released Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs in 2019. He stopped by HollywoodLife to talk about it, and his viral hit, ‘The Git Up.’
Kiiara
“It’s kind of me letting everyone in on who I really am,” Kiiara told HollywoodLife of her single, “Open My Mouth.” “Like, when I open my mouth I like f-ck sh-t up. You know? I’ll make stuff really awkward and don’t mean to.”
Old Dominion
“I think there’s a lot more from our lives, specifically, that made it onto this album,” Matthrew Ramsey of Old Dominion told HollywoodLife about their 2019 self-titled album. “The first album we made, we were looking for well-crafted hit songs, and I think we’re always going to do that, but you start to just feel a little bit more freedom to talk about yourself and you realize that’s actually what people want to hear.”
Rotimi
“ ‘Love Riddim’ for me, I think that we’re in a climate where there’s so much stress and anger and evil,” Rotimi told us about his new single. “I wanted something that led with the word love.”
UPSAHL
“I grew up listening to a bunch of alternative and rock music,” UPSAHL told HollywoodLife. “I love Weezer and Spoon and The Shins. In middle school and high school, I started to love Lorde and like a lot of bad ass female artists, No Doubt and Gwen Stefani was like a massive inspiration for me.”
Cassadee Pope
“The inspiration for the record came from a breakup that happened almost two years ago, leaving my record label of five years, and suddenly changing everything in my life, personally and professionally,” Cassadee Pope told HollywoodLife about her Stages record.
Claudia Oshry
“DJs are the new rockstars, so I really want to do a remix, and I had a really good idea for the collab — I want to have Paris Hilton do the remix,” Claudia Oshry told HollywoodLife.com about “Toast,” her debut single. “I sent it to her and she said she was going to listen to it, but I haven’t heard back from her yet…which doesn’t bode well for me, but I’m not giving up hope!”
Dana Vaughns
Dana Vaughns chills for a minute during a stop at the HollywoodLife studios in New York City. The R&B singer, actor, and renowned dancer chatted a bit about his EP, ‘Familiar Strangers,’ after posing for portraits.
