Valee speaks gently and uses a small dog. Furrari, a Yorkie that perhaps blocks perhaps five pounds, jogs with enthusiasm around a sunny study in the Chicago district of the Humboldt Park as its owner represents for photos; When the little one reserves it in the corridor, Valee’s voice is climbing in Dad mode: “Rari! Go back here!” However, apart from the field of puppies, it will not capture Valee Speak, or rap, in addition to a whisper. Time is needed with him a Zen experience: forced to pay attention, it concentrates on the silent concepts of Valee in life, language and music industry, because everything else is blurred in the background. When we take our verbal exchange to Archie, an impeccable diving bar that allows dogs to move freely, the 1990 diva space explodes in the speakers, but I leave the impression that a one -hour meditation session had just finished.

In the 2018 hyper saturated rap landscape, it resembles the noise maximum voices, dominating verbal exchange through natural fanfaron. Valee’s strategy is different. “In someone’s presence, my paintings are not aggravating them,” he said above a tequila shot, Rari nestled his internal jacket. He implemented this same philosophy in his series of discreet and strangely complicated Mixtapes, starting with 12:12 in 2015. Most of his songs ended intentionally towards the two -minute mark, not below to overcome his welcome. And the 28 -year -old ring never registers only to record.

“It will have to be a rhythm that attracts me something,” he says. “I like paintings intelligently and make music that other people need to listen, simply locate tactics so as not to wear other people’s nerves when they pass through their ears. ” It is precisely this silent intrigue that makes Valee stand out, in the reach of the Chicopass rap scene and beyond. Flock with chance and constantly changing, is on a soft but absolutely magnetic foot, the best balance between examining and intuition.

Born Valee Taylor in Robert Taylor Homes, a first level housing allocation in the Chicago Bronzeville district, grew in the southern appearance of the city. When I was a child, I was fascinated to dismantle things and learn to assemble it again; Today, his music technique is to adhere to a similar philosophy: an obsession with rap mechanics and the determination of new responses to the old problems. “If many other people say things in a way, I have to take it, twist, fix it and fold it in a way that feels fresh,” he said.

Therefore, although the rhythms of their songs are basically colored through a family palette, an impressionist trap transferred with a lot of open area, the vanguard flavor of Valee makes it more unlikely to wait for what can happen. In “I Got Got Why” of 2016, which extends dual -time breath: “My engine in progress and turn / each once you use the clutch and pedal”, they score with long breaks and the undeniable hook of 3 words of the title. At the end of last year, Valee and “Two 16s” through Chicago, Z-Money, have become a minor local feeling. On the track, Valee displays a flow of images without pause, his comfortable voice as a touch that remains for 30 seconds to fate. For this verse, he said that he was looking to create an incredibly detailed luxury symbol, to the point of feeling realistic, so when Rapeo, “Yves’s reading bag on his back / does not look back,” you can almost feel the strip and loosen of $ 1500 on your shoulders.

But the most productive song in Valee so far is still “Shell”, almost two years, but collects steam. The self -produced track is the first example of the sophisticated carism of Valee: “Gucci launched, then crossed the street (fuck) / abdomen, I had to eat (ooh!)” Go to the hook. This idea would possibly seem a bit trivial, but it is about life when you listen to Valee the rap as casual as the sensation asks; Everything is strangely intriguing. The effect is almost like seeing the painting of Bob Ross in PBS: it is not a consultation to see how the finished symbol takes place, but instead of admiring the sophisticated process disabled. The scenes of Valee’s paintings tend to feel captivating, leaving a very important intrigue detail to the imagination, an exuberant mystery with Versace shoes and lunch from Fogo de Chão.

And it is still discreet, other people have taken note: extended rumors to signed in the G. O. O. D. from Kanye. Musical label. He freely admits that he has an appointment with the imprint and that G. O. O. D. President Pusha T deserves to publish a remix of the Valee “Miami” 2016 track, but no more specific. (In October, the label published its video “I Got Got Why” on its Twitter, which is only updated every two months).

But above all, Valee is imperturbable. Its main fear is to locate new tactics to ask other people with words. “After running so hard and not waiting for anything, you become a little numb by all congratulations,” he admits. “I rarely like the music I make. It’s like nothing good. I check in my head, while I wait for the next more productive rhythm, so I can do something bigger than I did. “

Valee: I had very bad attacks of anger. I was in more school schools than the best years of school. I was expelled from two nurseries, a kindergarten. At the time, it may not return after Christmas holidays, I had to replace schools. My challenge was that no one can cry for it or kiss me. My grandmother and my aunt showed a hard love: they fed you, they gave you a hug, but then every day, when the time for a nap came, they ask all the children. Strange, very strange. Basically we would go to the room and complain to sleep. But I think he made me punishment. It happened to the point that my mother did not know what to do with me.

Outside the school, my mother bought me a toy truck, and dismantled it and replaced the axes using their Q-Runs whores. Destroy the truck, but I discovered how things worked. I combine radios, the electric formula. I liked speakers and the sound of sound. My mother had a nursery in the house, so she was underneath, talking to the parents, and I spend: “Oh, mom, apologize, I think I stumbled with the fuse. ” But really, I am up in my room, hooking the whore of the transfer of soft to the surround sound receiver, so when the bass is Zooom, Zooom, the gentle is happening. I don’t know how I did. There were sometimes when he called the electrician, and it would be $ 400 for an error that I made. But I taught myself. Probably at the address.

I lived in my old place, a great loft. I the youngest user in the construction and bored. I went to get a game system, but I ended up through Detour and went to the guitar center. I said: “I need to make greater rhythms of what I mean on the radio or on the Mixtape websites. ” While there, I told myself: “Well, I’m going to have a microphone and register. ” There is an organization of us that attacked in the best school, but when I graduated, my PC crashed.

After obtaining my diploma, I introduced a company under my son’s call. The schools sent me an email every Monday with a list [of tasks] and on Friday, I deserve to do them. It can be anything simple, such as repairing a refrigerator that has died. This company ended up being lucrative enough to pay my bills, then some, which gave me a loose artistic life. I am happy with a lovely and sufficient condominium to supply it conscientiously and to be silly and artistic. Therefore, he would be hidden at home; I don’t have to pass out and make scams or anything bad. I do structure things, but I do not distribute visit cards or actually need to face people. Actually, he begins to do anything artistic for myself and do such an intelligent task that the word spreads.

I think I will give G. O. O. D. MUSIC AN ALBUM OR A PROJECT. I like your device and the fact that, well, I look at all those labels, and look like artist classrooms. So I have the impression that they were given their favorite. I can’t go somewhere where there are nine other artists in the same damn estate. You know, I like [300 entertainment co -founder] Todd Moscow, she is an intelligent person. But there you have 10 artists who catch music. I would be afraid that if I face my creativity in one of those places, I would turn your back and that the instructor will tell his favorite students: “Now, that is what you have to do. ” Then I return to the drawing table. This makes me remain exclusive to myself.

They call me, as “trap referred. ” “Elegant trap”. I am not just a noisy person. I don’t like showBoat. I am not loud. So, I don’t know how to make music and be all turned, Uugh. It irritates me! If I think my aunt will soften a song and say: “Who is Satan?” I don’t need to get there.

And after all, if your music still turns on social networks, other people will be confused. I think I used Instagram Live once, in the workplace My Mixtapez in Miami. I rolled on the hoverboard and I fell. Great shipwreck, live. And I finished it. The last thing I saw there jump with many emojis of the dead face, laughing. I told myself: “Yes, that’s all. “

In my first place, I looked for an aquarium at the granite counter with the lights that fall, however, the cheapest glass to build it is like $ 1,300, and then I hit myself. Then I built an internal pond. You can get a preformed menards, and you put a brick around you. Then fill it with water and put the filters. I had koi fish for a long time with one foot. It was so nice. I still have it; I got rid of that and put it back in my new place.

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