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 Meet Shome, the hard working upcoming emcee from New Orleans. Highly influence from the early days of Cash Money's reign, Shome is glad to be next on the come up to represent The Big Easy. Many artist main objective is to focus their craft on the real realities of the common man. Shome, has first hand experience from this being a New Orleans native that witnessed the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina. For that reason alone is why his powerful music will be felt on the new mixtape coming "Habitat For Humanity". This kid has big things coming for the rest of 2010 and nothing will stop his quest to conquer and dominate. As a rapper of Indian descent, how and when were you first exposed to hip-hop music? I think I first got into hip-hop and learned about it from my older cousins. They were listening to everything from Pac, Biggie, and The Hotboyz just to name a few. I remember seeing a bunch of cd's spread all over their bedroom floors and just going through them...Plus I was young at the time, so they easily influenced me to get into it more and more. Growing up in New Orleans, were you a fan of Master P. & his crew's No Limit movement during the late 90's? Well to be honest, I wasn't much of a No Limit fan growing up, I was a Cash Money head. Anything Cash Money was putting out, I was the first to recite every line. Those were the good ol' days of New Orleans hip-hop. Who are some artists that currently inspire you and why? There's always the bigger artists in the industry like Wayne, Jay, Nas, Kanye, Lupe, etc. But I've always been a underground head, and there's way too many to name in that category. But some up-and-coming ones in the industry are artists like J.Cole, Curren$y and XV just to name a few. But again, my heart will always be in underground hip-hop. How has your experience with the Hurricane Katrina tragedy influenced the content of your music? I feel like it's influenced it tremendously. I always end up referring to Katrina in every other song at least for some reason. I think it helps bring in my conscience tip, and always reminds me to have at least some sort of message in every track or verse I do. The whole Katrina era definitely is one of the hardest times I've had in my life, and I think people will notice it more with my upcoming tape Habitat For Humanity. Even the cover relates to Katrina. As a current inhabitant of North Carolina, do you feel that your lyrical style fits into the southern rap sub-genre? That's crazy because I ask myself that often. I think the game is changing slowly but surely. Nowadays, it's hard to tell who's from where, unless you're doing dance music of course. I feel like I'm more of the Midwest/up north style, but at the same time, people like J.Cole & Jay Electronica are just a few to show you that the south has more than just club/dance music. I've always loved southern hip-hop. I guess the biggest aspect of the southern hip-hop genre that I like, are the beats and it's up-and-coming talented artists. Plus I was born and raised in one of the most southern states, Louisiana. To date, what do you feel has been your biggest accomplishment as an artist? I think my biggest accomplishment so far, has either been being played on Q93, the biggest hip-hop station in New Orleans, or performing at a packed out club during Bayou Classic, one of the biggest sports events in New Orleans. I was like 16 or 17 in a 21 and up club, so I felt real important. Tell us about your upcoming mixtape, Habitat for Humanity. That's gonna be my baby. I'm trying to put my all in it, I guess which is why I've pushed it back to an August 2010 release. I feel like it'll have music for all types of moods and people. The title obviously stems from the organization Habitat For Humanity and at the same time I feel like it'll be a tape for everyone to relate to and help them with whatever they're going through at the time, good or bad. What do you hope to accomplish with your music by the end of 2010? Like everyone, I want to say having a major record deal. But to be honest, I want to have a pretty big buzz. I want to be a well established artist, but still have that hunger to keep striving. I want to be part of that new breed of up & comers that are well respected and have great supporters.
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