24: Why don’t you introduce yourself to everyone.?

Stef: My name is Stef. Represent 813 Tampa Bay, down here in Miami taking care of business.

24: What brings you to Miami?

Stef: Y’all, 24hourhiphop.com Thank you for letting me have this opportunity, just working trying to get my shit out there, hope people like it.

24: What are you promoting right now?

Stef: Promoting right now, I’m promoting my new mixtape called ‘Training Day,’ dropped January 31, you can find it on datpiff.com. Really, just grinding trying to promote that 7 song in on the new one so we working trying to get to the next one nonstop, nonstop.

24: Who have you worked with in the past?

Stef: I just recently started up, just really on my own stuff, on my solo stuff. Just trying to work on my part of the things, cause I feel like even though features are cool, working with people and stuff, I feel like, if I worked with someone I’d want it to be Flo Rida. I just been really on my stuff, but I got a show with Hurricane Chris March 18. Working on some stuff with Wiz (Khalifa) in Auburn, working on some stuff also in Miami just working man, just working.

24: What style of music do you do?

Stef: I’d like to say, I’m Hip-Hop, I mean strictly Hip-Hop to be honest with you, I love Hip-Hop. I mean don’t get it twisted I’ll listen to Anita Baker by myself, but to me Hip-Hop, I don’t know that just me I feel like I’m Hip-Hop that’s pretty much it I’m not really into gangster rap, that’s not me. I just talk about what’s real I see relationships, I see things happening and I write about them and try to present to the people I try to do that so that everyone will feel my vibe, feel my mindset, feel what I’m trying to say.

24: How is your music influenced by your life?

Stef: I feel like my music is my life. If it’s on wax, put it on my life. I mean seriously we were in the car today, she was saying like, she from Miami initially and came back and was like I want to move back to Miami. I got this mindset, no what I mean and what I say same city, different mindset, new money, different concepts. I’m just saying this is me, this is all I think about, that’s all I think about. To me, saying what’s real, saying what I feel is real to the people and if you real you know what I mean and that’s pretty much it.

24: Where are you from originally?

Stef: I’m 100% Trinidadian. I was born in California, but I was raised in Tampa. I went to Trinidad for a litlle, then went to Vermont for a little bit.

24: How do you feel about record labels in this business and their impact?

Stef: I hate to bash anybody, but prime example Flo Rida has great music, great music, but he knew he wouldn’t get his cake unless he made something. What I mean, like the people gonna buy his cd ,the people gonna buy his ring tones stuff like that. So the only thing that I can say and I mean as of right now, I feel like I’m apart of history and I’m happy to be in the game right now. I feel like the game is being changed and I feel like we can see kind of a change in from the past years, so I’m happy about that. I feel like people are getting way real. I feel like that one song with Eminem and 50 talking about the hooks, no what I mean stuff like that. I feel like the game’s changing and I’m happy to be apart of that. The only thing record labels, I would say how to do it, but don’t get it twisted records labels are about their money everybody are about their money. So I feel like the only thing that record labels should do less of is, I mean let’s make less pop, but if you make Hip-Hop then make Hip-Hop feel me?

24: What song are you getting the most feedback that everyone should look out for?

Stef: All the females seems to like ‘Milky Way.’ I mean all my Hip-Hop people like ‘The Return,’ ‘Poor Righteous Teachers’ has that Florida vibe. The people down here to be honest every track is I feel like I put my all in every track, but as far as my shit I got to say ‘Milky Way’

24: Where can someone find that song now?

Stef: That song just got on datpiff.com, big site just search ‘Training Day’ by Stef

24: Anything you want to share with the fans and share something they don’t know about you?

Stef: First off, I’d like to thank every one of my fans and tell them I love them. Thank you for showing the love and I’ll show it right back.We were talking about when I came out I’ve been writing since about 14 and I just stop playing college soccer, last year I lived in Boston.

24: Oh, you played college soccer, for what school?

Stef: Anvers college. I wasn’t on a scholarship, but I did play college soccer for a year. Actually, I’ve been playing soccer for, shit I have videos of when I couldn’t even walk and I was kicking a ball. That’s actually why I always loved music, always loved music but I mean I went to an all boys private school, know what I mean rigorous academically, rigorous school, I mean I always had my soccer and my school shit up there a lot of stuff was happening, so I just wrote about kinda like that it was my therapy. I was on the field every fucking day I couldn’t even go work out, so to relieve stress I’d write. I got notebooks and notebooks of just words and originally that’s how I came out, I just pretty much, my point, my example right now my life that’s all I do yeah, so I’m 100% Trinidadian dual citizenship, all that.

24: What do you talk about in your songs?

Stef: In my songs, I talk about I feel like I touch on every aspect of life. This last mixtape was very versatile, I’m happy about that I have eighteen songs and I only chose 11 cause I don’t want to put out bullshit. I hate nigga that put out bullshit like, just bullshit like you know what I mean just keep it consistently putting out bullshit. But when I want my shit to come out I want niggas to be like you putting out another song, Imma go cop that. I mean like everything like ‘End of the Road’ is bout a break up song. I did the Alicia Keys ‘Unthinkable,’ it’s about that concept like I know what my future wife and the mother of my kids, I don’t know her yet, but shit like that. I got ‘Poor Righteous Teachers,’ that’s about smoking trees with your boys, just kicking it having a good time in the sunshine state. ‘The Return’ is some Hip-Hop shit and possible 3 freestyles put together the hook, I just like a little sample, I mean to me it’s a great save I love it. I hope the people love it, I put a lot of work into it, busting my ass on this next one right here, right now actually.

24: What’s the title of the next one?

Stef: So I actually have it all set out in my head. I got ‘Training Day,’ this next one is called ‘The Combine,’ the one after that is gonna be called ‘Pre-Season.’ The one after that I don’t know what it’s gonna be called, but it would be something about putting the game together. The next one, Post Season, the next one is like the championship, not the championship, but like the bowl game or some shit like that. The next one that when I know that everybody will know and that one I’ll call it ‘The Ring’ or ‘The Champ.’ I say that to myself and I was talking to her about that shit yesterday, I love it cause I can say when shit happens in my life I think about lyrics. Say I stay to myself,  niggas thought I was ghost, but they were wrong I stayed in my city writing songs taking hits out of gravity bangs like nobody seeing me like none of my boys, like my niggaas. Fucking people that gonna be in my wedding, they don’t see me, don’t  they don’t see me niggas, don’t know I rap until I put this shit out. I just been grinding, just grinding. If I show you my log on  my I touch right now, you’ll see I got when I wrote my song everyday I came over to her crib and the fucking ipod died, so I didn’t have anything to do so I went to her crib. This music shit is what I do, it’s who I am. Shit I mean it’s just me.

24: Why don’t you tell everyone where they can find your music again?

Stef: ‘Training Day’ that’s the name of it, ‘Training Day’ by Steff. Datpiff.com, I do Hip-Hop, you gonna see. 24hourhiphop.com soon too. Time to take over this bitch.

24: Shout Outs?

Stef: Wanna give a shout out to Tritton Jackson, wanna give a shout out to Derrick Blair. Shout to my mom and dad and shout to Tay and shout out to Philip Hudson and City.