Dope Lyricist Badio

Category: Featured artist

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As a Hip-Hop artist, being considered “underrated” isn’t far fetched an understatement in regards to describing the musical finesse of BADIO. Born Liberian (Feb 16^th, 1989) BADIO’S third world childhood experiences encouraged a more emotionally fortified approach to his art & times. It wasn’t until the fleeing of BADIO’S family to the United States (in 2000), did Badio begin intertwining the features & characteristics of his paintings with music.

Now more fortified than ever, the Virginia influenced, Arizonian adopted, forward thinking artist is fully aware and excited about his future. #WHATSBADIO – the Tape has been described as the Holy Trinity of the new wave hippies and hipsters, your ordinary student, the Supreme & The Hundreds rockers, and the dreamers of this world. Please stay tuned and well accustomed to the future of Badio, much is expected.

Location: Tucson, AZ

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Urban Steez: Tell everybody your name and what area you represent?

Awesome. The name is BADIO, BADI for short. Some people call me BADIO THE AFRICANO and my mother call’s me Danny.

Urban Steez: How did you come up with your music name?

Badio: Well, it’s my last name. My full name is Danny Badio, for a while my surroundings kept attracting my last name you know? Everybody started calling me by my last name so I just ran with it, sometimes when people refer to me by my first name it’s almost awkward, almost.

Urban Steez: How long have you been doing music and what made you get into music?

Badio: Music has always been my life; I really don’t know anything else. This has been about 17 years in the making. I painted excessively growing up in Liberia, as my skills developed, I tried different ways of approaching my way of expression, so I would add some vocals to compliment my art pieces you know? Think of it as art being transferred from one medium to another, from paper to a microphone. Music’s my drug.

Urban Steez: Nice. How would you describe your style and why? And what do you feel you can bring to the table as an artist?

Badio: My style’s honest; to really describe my style wouldn’t be fair to me because, it involves categorizing what I do. I’m very versatile. The only thing that’s constant about my “style” is the cleverness of my wordplay. I don’t like using the same vocabulary on one song that I’ve used on the song prior to. I was compared to Jay – Z, then at some point Lupe. I feel like, I’m just the middle class struggling renaissance advocate of our generation, that will drink your ass under the table, somebody get me a beer pong table. What I bring to the table is the reality of everything simple, people lie too much these days. Artists feel like they’re obligated to create an image bigger than which they’ll never be, ever. My music will make people appreciate, accept, and love everything they’re not and everything fucked up about them. I’m real man, but not hood real, the real, real. Over draft account real. Ha.

Urban Steez: Yea man your deliveries are very creative. You have what I call a, “Universal Flow”! If you had to pick which label to be signed to what would it be and why?

Badio: Well, nobody to be honest. I’d sign to my own label, it’s more convenient and innovative. The industry isn’t what it was and I’m not even in it yet, but I always thought spitting bars to Ed Banger’s productions would be dope so who knows, maybe Ed Banger records.

Urban Steez: What’s the biggest challenge you feel you face as an artist?

Badio: MOTIVATION. Being able to motivate yourself takes skill, it takes you to know you to be able to plug yourself into doing something even your OWN DAMN EMOTIONS say you can’t do, as well as knowing when to switch from being artistic minded to business minded. Being able to not feel like you deserve anything when you really do is a very hard feeling to swallow. If you can take that down (pause) you’ll be fine. Don’t sweat and keep it moving.

Urban Steez: Motivation is key and it can be challenging at times, well said. Who would you want to collaborate with in the music industry and why?

Badio: Lupe. < Because I’d want him to sponsor me, I’m playing man Lupe’s dope. To be honest I want to collaborate with the entire industry, even Lil B. I want everybody to feel something from another, or me, if I can touch everybody musically someway, we’re one step closer to bringing the future of music back. Get me.

Urban Steez: I can really see you and Lupe going H.A.M. on a track… So how do you feel you rank against top music talents today? And why?

Badio: I’m better than them but my network and connections aren’t as. Just got to grind in a major way.

Urban Steez: I agree, I’ve been following your music for a minute, at the end of the day its your networking that gets you over the top. What are you working on now and when can fans expect to hear more from you?

Badio: I’m currently wrapping up #WHATSBADIO – The Tape schedule to drop in May. This tape has been long awaited, I’m sorry to my fans but life happened. This tape is literally the lifeline and time sheet of everything I’ve learned, not learned. I dropped 3 tapes before this, I don’t want to have about 8 mix-tapes out before I’m majorly jumping so, just expect this tape to be an album. I want this tape to prove to the world that I deserve this life.

Urban Steez: Man, cant wait!! Be sure to drop that in my inbox first thing! Where do you see yourself a year from now?

Badio: Tours, studios, I see myself like I do in my dreams.

Urban Steez: That’s Wassup! Who and what are your influences?

Badio: Everything. Including this space bar on my mac-book, it just influenced me to design something.

Urban Steez: What do you think of the hip hop/ music world right now?

Badio: Music died when it became profitable. Artists are more independent, more self aware and more so about their creative aspect than their pockets. It’s cool. I still say fuck rappers. I’m not a rapper and neither is your favorite “rapper”. badio-3