With music transitioning on a regular basis the through the passing decades, it seems as though Hip-Hop may be picking up speed much faster than most other genres. The new school is emerging all the while the old school is becoming obsolete. Rap artists are coming a dime a dozen nowadays, but coming much younger. The youth are officially the future of Hip-Hop.

One young artist is already making a name of himself within the southern regions of Broward County and is already in the midst of his third mixtape. Yung KD exhibits a real determination and ambitious mind, especially when it comes to his music. Even though his fanbase is still rising, the young artist is still keeping a humble attitude towards everything that has come his way or about to come his way. This is an exclusive interview with Mr. Yung KD.

24: Introduce yourself to the fans that don’t already know who you are.

Yung KD: This Yung KD, out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, I represent the Broward County area. Basically, I try to keep my music positive, real, and just everybody know how we live it, and so people can relate to my music. I come from the household called ‘So Blowed Entertainment.’

24: Where did everything start for you, what made you decide to get into music?

Yung KD: It was during high school probably around my 12th grade year, being around my homeboys just chillin.’ We would basically hear some beats and start freestyling. Around 2008, I recorded my first song entitled ‘Swaggin,’ wasn’t really a hit single and I wasn’t tied to any big names, but people were feeling it, my peers and the people around the area were like do your thing, do your thing, you got this, you got this. So basically I was just influenced by the people around me to push me to keep doing my thing.

24: As a matter of fact, who are your role models, who did you look up to in the industry and even now?

Yung KD: Man, I wouldn’t lie, I’m big Northern region fan and listener. So a lot of Jay-Z from my older sister and my cousins. One person that I do listen to a lot right now in the industry, would have to be Curren$y. A lot of dudes do their thing and they have an impact me, but I do listen to a lot of Curren$y right now and in Miami Rick Ross. I listen to a lot of everybody, to tell you the truth, you got to keep up with what’s going on as an artist.

24: Interesting choice, what about Curren$y gives you that spark and how does he influence your music?

Yung KD: Curren$y does what I feel I wanna do, which would be to talk about everyday life and the shit that you might not be financially where you are. I want everybody to feel my music and if you do have money now, at one point you didn’t, so you’ll still feel it.

24: Where would you say all the inspirations from your music comes from?

Yung KD: My music mostly comes from what I see, what I do. I tend to throw a lot of funny shit in there every now and again, I’d probably make a joke or something like that and a lot of people listening to my music, I’d catch them bobbing their head and then ‘Oh Shit,’ and start laughing about that I say. So I try to keep it everyday life and shit that you could feel, shit that you’d probably had done before. If I’m rapping about a bunch of stuff that you’ve never seen or never did, most likely you gonna feel me and you’re gonna wanna listen to it.

24: I’ve heard a lot of artists over the years tell me that when they actually sit down to put the pencil to the pad and listen to the beat, they say the beat speaks to them and tells them what to write. Does the same element go for you or do you have a totally different aspect on how you write your music?

Yung KD: I usually write my music, if you listen to my songs, you might be able to tell after I tell you this. I usually write my music from the verses first, whatever the beat, when I get on the beat; I just formulate a flow for that beat, the best flow that I could come up with. Harmonizing it my head, I’d come up with some type of flow to go ahead and throw on that beat. It’s all around the flow these days, so what I try to do is work from my verses and then after that, if you’re trying to make a hit, then you know what you gotta do, you gotta find that hook that’ll be catchy enough to actually make radio play.

24: I’ve noticed that you have a pattern when it comes to dropping mixtapes from dropping one last year to dropping two this year. Would you say that your music have evolved from last year’s ‘Talk of the Streets Vol. 1’ to this year’s Vol. 2?

Yung KD: Definitely would have to say my music has evolved. From back in last year, I say back like its 5 years ago, but nah, last year I was just learning how to formulate a song and you know it takes time for an artist to learn his flow. There’s a lot dudes who switch their flow after 5 years of them being in the game and they just found a new flow. I find a new flow every time I’m writing and every time I’m writing in the studio, it’s just practice, it makes me better. I do that often as possible. Last year, I was getting comfortable with myself, getting comfortable with how I do things, and just creating my own lane. This year I found it and I’m the only person in that lane, so I’m going to do my thing as far as that goes. We putting in work now, it’s time to work.

24: So now onto your recent mixtape, let the fans know the title, what single you plan on pushing, and when will it officially drop?

Yung KD: The title for my third mixtape is already set and established, it going to be called ‘Talk of the Streets’ Vol. 2, my first mixtape was called ‘Talk of the Streets Vol. 1,’ so basically I’m just doing the sequel for this and if you do it the second time, you gotta do it better than the first. It actually already dropped; I wanted to officially drop on July 4th, so about a month ago now. The single off of the mixtape is going to be ‘Last Call.’ The beat has a real Hip-Hop feel to it, if you haven’t heard it yet and it’s real lyrical on that aspect. If you like lyrics check it out, if you don’t still check it out. I say some things on there that the average dude would be like damn.

24: Let’s break down the single ‘Last Call,’ production, inspiration, concept, etc.

Yung KD: ‘Last Call’ is produced by OSX; he’s a pretty big producer in the game right now. The track is basically an introduction to me, if you didn’t know me and you just heard my name, ‘Last Call’ will decide whether or not you want to listen to more of my music or not. In the song, I talk about how the rap game is right now, talking about how I’m going to get in, where I fit in. You know, basically make a name for myself in this rap game without changing my formula. ‘Last Call’ came a long way, man, it’s a good song, check it out.

24: As a matter of fact, how is the state of Hip-Hop, right now?

Yung KD: You know what, (chuckles), I feel like the state of Hip-Hop is…cool, it’s not at its greatest, we not at the top of the hill, but we not at the bottom of the hill neither. That’s all I’m going to say about that.

24: Before we end this, I think it’s only fair for you to explain to the fans who you are, so who is Yung KD?

Yung KD: Yung KD, basically, when I was in middle school up until high school and everything like that. You know what, if I had a lot of dirt behind my name and I was scared for someone to research me, I wouldn’t tell you my name, but my family calls me Dominique, that’s my middle name, and everyone was calling me Keith, especially the girls, the girls would love Dominique, but my school classmates and everybody call me Keith. So the name KD just developed from my homeboys and everything like that. I was being called that from such a young age, so when I started doing my thing, everyone already knew me as that, but basically, I’m just a young dude doing my thing, man. I’m just trying to influence everyone else who’s young to stay at what they doing and keep focused, you know if you’re in school, stay in school, if you’re rapping, then keep rapping and still go to school. So whatever it is that you do, be the best at what you do and I’m just trying to show everyone that it could be done, I’ve been rapping for 3 years and I feel like I came a long way from 2008 and now it’s 2011, I’m on my third mixtape and I might have 2 or maybe 3 come out within the year, you never know, time will tell. I’m just trying to make my own lane in this rap game, right now I’m branching off to the left lane.

24: As you are well aware, the industry can be shady at times, as an artist have you weighed out the pros and cons?

Yung KD: I feel like you just got to keep one eye open, keep one eye focused on the road and the other focused on the business. You’ll probably mess up a couple of times, but you learn from your mistakes. If rapping, hopefully you got some people around you that care about you and steer you in the right direction, if not then don’t listen to everyone, you gotta keep your own mind set too, you got your own mind. Think for yourself.

24: With an oversaturated industry, what would you say sets you apart from other artists trying to make it in this game?

Yung KD: What I have to say is, a lot of artists will probably have the swag, but don’t have the lyrics, the verses, a lot of people are mix matching right now, but the dudes who really blow, they got everything. I’m going to have to say I’m one of them dudes who just got everything; I mean I write my own stuff, I record my own stuff, and basically I do my own thing. I don’t take off of the next dude, I just be influenced by their ways and it just makes me wanna do better. I wouldn’t say I xeroxed somebody’s style, somebody’s swag.

24: How would the fans go about contacting you?

Yung KD: Everything: Facebook.com/YungKD, Twitter.com/YungKD954. Basically, anything, email, right now I’m on Datpiff.com, LiveMixtapes.com, 24HourHipHop.com, this is a 24HourHipHop interview, so you know I’m on 24HourHipHop. YouTube.com, if you just type YungKD on there, you’re bound to see at least an hour of things to watch. Just look me up, I’m here.

24: Thank you for providing 24HourHipHop.com with this exclusive interview, do you have any last words for your present and future fans?

Yung KD: Just look out, I’m doing my thing right now, just look out. I’m a real hungry artist, so you don’t have to worry about those 6, 7 month breaks, the biggest break was between ‘Talk of the Streets’ and ‘Chronicles of the Beast, but that’s in the past. Just look out for me, Yung KD, So Blowed Entertainment.

Shout out 24hourhiphop.com, big shout out to Poe Boy. Shout out to ‘So Blowed Entertainment.’ Shout out to the whole Broward County and Miami-Dade. And shout out to anyone who supports me and anybody who supports me, I really appreciate it, if you hit me up on wherever and I see that you support me, I appreciate it and I’ll let you know that I appreciate it. “So Blowed, we coming!”

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