HD, what's going on bro, first things first I wanted to thank you for coming on Nefarious Supply and giving us a chance to feature you. So to get this interview started tell us about yourself who is HD, where are you from, and what led you into making music?
Hey thanks man, I really appreciate y’all taking the time to do is. Y’all are the first people to ever interview me about my music so I’m very excited! HD is for one, my initials which pretty much grew into a nickname as well, and two I also have an alter ego known as “HDHOE” and he’s a trip. I’m just an open heart & minded type of person and I try not to judge things you know? Where I’m from is Gretna on the Westbank aka. THE BESTBANK, but anyways I’ve lived there all my life but my grandmother had lived in Terrytown so I stayed around there a lot too, so I like to claim that I’m from there as well. What pretty much caused me to tap into music and start rapping, was in middle school where I started going into rap circles where people would huddle up, someone would beatbox, clap their hands, etc and sometimes people would have rap battles, which I used to be scared as hell to do but I guess it would give me a rush just to be in it and so I’d try to see what I could think of and say to make fun of my friends. Doing that I started to have a lot of rhymes and melodies stuck in my head and it was like I could never get them out.
So once highschool started, in between my freshman/sophomore year I started recording songs with one of my oldest friends Royce who can play literally any instrument you put in his hands so obviously he had learned how to record and edit songs on the computer and stuff. Him and I started making a lot of music together, releasing HORRIBLE music because we were both starting but we had to start somewhere just like every other artist or musician you know? But the older I got the more and more I started wanting to make music and would still have rhymes stuck in my head so it was like an impulse for me. Once I got older, my love for rapping and making music grew a lot and I just kept recording and thinking: “Oh this one(the song) will be amazing” and then I’d just end up releasing another song and end up just critiquing that one too, so it would just cycle. It’s still like that to this day, I feel like anytime I make a song, I know the next one I make will be even better! So i just worry about how it sounds for me and not really what other people think of it for the most part.
How has this area played and influence on your music and artistry?
Haha to be truly honest, Gretna just makes me wanna do bad shit all the time because of all the authority that’s surrounded by it. I’m not that much of a bad kid. But I do like to smoke so a lot of times I’ll be smoking on my porch and they’ll just be a gretna cop behind my house just sitting there watching me. So I’d do just like anyone else would do.. wave hi and keep smoking. But Gretna and Terrytown has really influenced in a sense that my family is really on this side and it gives me confidence to wanna put Gretna and Terrytown on the map just to show to people that it’s possible for my friends and, I feel like my side of the river is just always seemed as boring or lame so I really wanna keep making music so that I’ll be able to look back and think about all the fun times I had with my friends and family.
What artists have had the biggest influence on you, and how have they done so?
Mac Miller, Aka. Malcom McCormick, Aka. Larry Fisherman. That’s the one right there bruh. He’s the reason I wanted to pursue in music and I truly would see myself in him which is weird to say I guess but I don’t know how else to describe it. I guess 50% him being a different type of rapper that’s white and the other 50% because to me he was truly a genius. Ever since KIDS I never stopped listening to his music. I claim myself as the ultimate #1 Mac Miller fan and if someone says otherwise they can come talk to me. I actually met him on his GOOD AM tour and I almost shit on myself meeting him. He made me mad tho on the fact that he’d rap and say he’s 5’9” and then I stood next to him and we were the same height!
Didn’t change anything really but I was like “damn son we like the same height.” That was probably one of the best days of my life. It hurt me a lot when he passed away. I lost him at a dark time in my life too so let me tell you that did NOT help me. Another big influence for me would be Jimi Hendrix because I love all his music and I just liked his vibe. He seemed like a really mellow but spiritual person. I always listen to “All along the watchtower” Atleast three to four times a week. Oh wait and the Beatles man I’ve been a fan of them since I was a kid. I have a lot of vinyl records from them, plus a bunch of posters and stuff. Before I liked rap music I used to listen to a lot of Rock & roll stuff like AC/DC, Rolling stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ozzy Osbourne as well. Plus my mom put me onto people like Al Green, Luther Vandross, and Teddy Pendergrass. I have an array of music choice. To keep it a stack with ya.. For me.. It's anything but country music. Not a fan.
How has your experience been so far as an underground musician, and what are some things you have learned since you first started till now?
My experiences being an underground musician had been kind of a lonely thing until I started hanging out with Eddy Benz and his potnas and began to link with other underground artists. Pretty much what I’ve learned is that anyone on the scene or starting to be talked about are all connected someway or another. It’s like everyone could be friends if they all knew who their friends were friends with. It’s hard to network in New Orleans cause a lot of people will just take whatever shit they got that’s starting to be noticed and just run with it. A lot of people don’t want to see what you’d have to offer even though it would probably help achieve the same goals that that collective, group, or person wants as well. It’s sad to see that but that’s how it is here. That’s why I’m grateful that I have true friends and a good team so I won’t have to worry about them being two-faced or not really fucking with me anymore.
What artists have you worked with so far and who are you looking to work with in the future as you grow?
As of right now I haven’t really worked with any rappers or singers. But at the moment Eddy Benz and I have been trying to make some songs but we haven’t really made anything yet due to us both wanting the song to be “perfect” in both of our own ways. The people that I plan to work with would probably be Eddy for one, my boy Ta$ty cause he has an amazing voice and is a talented ass rapper in my opinion, I’d love to work with Lango if I get the chance, also my good friend RICHLAKE, and my bro Flamesbond as well cause I know we’d sound fire as fuck on a track together. At some point I’d like to make a song with Curren$y so I could make some shit like he made with Mac back in the day.
So you recently dropped your latest project “The Aftermath EP” tell us about it, and what inspired you to make it?
Alright, so at first i wanted to title the EP as “Two-faced” as a dedication to all the two-faced motherfuckers that I thought could be a friend or at least someone that I could rely on, but...I had problems trying to put a certain piece of art that my best friend aka. My son Jagger had made but it was giving me too much stress so I had to change it up! The Aftermath EP is in a sense for me the “aftermath” of all the drugs, parties, friendships, and music I’ve made and saved up within these past two years to which I’ve created to project what’s been going on in my life. The first song called “Felt alone Pt.2” was dedicated to a good friend of mine named Jakobi Douglas who was shot late last year. I have a song on Soundcloud called “Felt Alone” and a lot of people liked that I guess, because it was a sad song and it could relate to what other people were going through in their lives. So I definitely wanted to make a part two but I didn’t know what the beat or the vibe of the song was gonna be. But once my producer and very good friend JL Beats played the beat for the song, I knew right off the bat that that was going to be the song for “Felt Alone Pt.2.”
One main reason for the release of this tape was to start putting my music on all platforms and get off the Soundcloud scene for a minute just for something new you know? Plus it makes me feel more professional as an artist to give access to my music no matter what platform the person has. My personal favorites on the tape would be “Weed & Tunes” and “Prowl,” because Weed & Tunes is a fun and turn up song that I wanted to make for my next show performance, and in the midst of making Prowl I was super loaded off some shrooms and i couldn’t hang and ended up having to stop and puke my guts out. But then after that I felt way better & pretty much freestyled the whole song besides chorus. After doing that I felt like an animal son. Like nothing could stop me. So I had to keep that song on the side for something good.
On the production end what producers did you work with, and who helped mix and master the project?
The producers that I’ve worked with are JL Beats and HABEATS. Those two are my boys and without them, this tape and most of my music wouldn’t even exist without them. Both of them motivate me to just keep making music and see what happens. We all like to influence each other once in a while if we’re feeling down or just start to doubt our work. JL pretty much mixed my songs on the tape a little and it came out perfect! I released a bonus track from this tape on Soundcloud called “Locust,” by Habeats and that jawn came out wonderful!!!! Both JL and Habeats are good friends so it’s nice to be able to actually make a song with either of them for us both to enjoy. They’re serious about their business but they’re not the type to be like “ok, we’re done, pay me, and get the fuck out. They’re just genuine and humble ass dudes. Plus they make very diverse beats as in you could just tell them how you’re feeling or what type of beat you’d want and they’d give it their all to be able to satisfy you in what you’d want. I highly recommend them for any underground or up and coming artists in the city. They don’t do shit for the clout. They want to influence the city, the youth, and most importantly the music.
So its a new year and new decade, where do you want to be by the end of the year as well as the end of the decade?
I guess as of terms for the end of the year, I just want to make more connections and meet new artists that would want to just shoot the shit and make some damn music. As long as those people do unto me as I’d do unto them then I’d be pretty happy. Plus by the end of the year, I just want to get more exposure, shoot more music vids, and mainly get some more show performances on my belt. I think I’m at like three or four shows right now but by the end of the year, I wanna get as close as I can to 10. But shit man by the end of the decade I just want to be financially stable and happy in life regardless of what I do and don’t have. Even if this music shit doesn’t work for me I know I’ll find my place in life one day or another. Might just fuck around and start doing standup comedy if I can try to retain some good jokes if the weed doesn’t fuck up my memory.
Plus I’m an only child and no I don’t live some fancy-ass life but I have everything I need because of my mom. I just wanna be able to pay her back for all the late nights I was out recording and doing business to get my name heard, all the dumbass decisions I made back in high school, and you know how it goes. You only have one mother in your life, not two sons, ONE, and THAT’S IT. Unless you got gay moms then yeah ok true, but I mean your biological one duhhh. But people need to understand that once you lose someone that close in your family, shit gets real. Like Mac said, “I love my momma, I love my momma more than Kevin Durant loves his momma, and that’s ON GOD HOMIE straight up!”
Who should we interview next for Nefarious Supply?
Hmmmmmmmm I’d have to say either my boys JL or Habeats.. OR my bro Ta$ty cause I’m sick and tired of these heathens not hearing these beautiful songs that this man makes. You gotta tap into his tape called “Therapy” dawg. Shit’s like marvin’s Room but it’s the whole fuckin tape. That means it’s a very good album, I HIGHLY recommend it, brother
Any last words?
Any last words well shit. Shoutout my 10th-grade teacher Bobby Henderson for saying I’m a “drug addict” and that I “ain’t a prize” cause I’m not, I’m a fucking gift on god’s green earth and I just be 420 blazing it while influencing my generation one song at a time. While yo ass is in the same shit ass seat, wearing that dumbass TJ football polo, and hopefully reading this cause his grown ass really blocked me on Twitter for harassing him, so yeah fuck you at least I’m goal-oriented you fuckin lame. ANYWAYS…. I got buku singles on all platforms now, y'all should check out my new single called “3 F’s.” A very good song I must say but hey! Fuck it that’s my opinion, I worked hard on that song. Finally thanks again for y’all taking the time out of your day to be interested in interviewing me. It truly means the world. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
-HD
Shout out to HD for coming on and Interviewing with Nefarious Supply. Be sure to check out his latest tape “The After Math - EP” which is available on Apple Music right now. If you enjoyed this interview and want to stay up to date with hum be sure to follow him on his Instagram and be on the lookout for new music from him coming soon.
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