Friday, 03 February 2012
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Rapper from Dallas is making waves with his gaming inspired music
Rapper Richie Branson is really a well-known character in San Antonio’s music community. Being a music producer, he's got found recent success working with major label clientele for example Def Jam Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment. Richie’s production is on par with most industry production, but what really makes him be noticeable is his style as an artist. San Antonio’s hip-hop scene contains music that's not too different from the hard-hitting southern club-friendly music of Houston or Dallas. What sets Richie aside from most artists in the Dallas music scene will be the material of numerous of his songs. While Richie’s catalog has a lot of typical mainstream hip-hop songs, his favorite subject material happens to be game titles.
Through the years, video game rap has changed right into a popular hip-hop subculture called “nerdcore”. While Richie embraces this subculture in the videogame-inspired raps, he calls his own style “nerdcool” due to his ability to cross interior and exterior mainstream music: “Sometimes I’m a nerd making music for your nerds, sometimes I’m a nerd making music for everybody” he admits that. When Richie isn’t doing industry work beneath the tutelage of his manager/mentor Kevin Peli, he’s online video video games and rapping about the subject. He's got been gaining a fair level of notoriety from his recent game-related recordings. Certainly one of his current projects, “Cold Republic”, is really a mixtape dedicated to certainly one of his favorite video games: The exorcist: The existing Republic. After releasing several songs from your project on YouTube, Richie’s music was featured on the selection of major gaming sites including AOL’s Joystiq.com. The music activity from your “Cold Republic” generated a lot buzz inside the gaming community that longtime Alien videogame composer Mark Griskey even co-signed Richie’s creative work.
Richie’s unorthodox creativity places him in the different lane than most people making music in San Antonio. He refuses to follow any specific formula for musical success and instead, he marches towards the beat of his or her own drum. He is unique in his capability to shine on mainstream hip-hop songs and also the videogame-inspired music he loves to create. Regardless of anything else, he simply desires to prove a point that artist should make music by what they personally love, not the things they think others do.
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