Get To Know: Rex2slick, A Young Emcee On The Rise

Define your artistry in three sentences

I’m a artist that’s dedicated to my goal in music. I am very consistent I feel like as long as I keep dropping music the right person will hear. I can say I’m very versatile because you have to know how to change the flow up sometimes for different crowds of people and stand out from everybody in your hometown.

How has Baltimore and Maryland regional  music, has influenced you musically?

Baltimore influences me to make music everyday because of the everyday struggle we go through as in young black men getting killed at a very young age and the poverty Rate that our city has. I just want to make a change on the society.

Take us through a Day in the life with you.

A day with me is finding a different way to achieve my goal and get closer to my goal day by day & going to the studio for 5 hours or more to make a mix-tape and it’s no way I can take my career to seriously that’s what you are supposed to do when you really want to reach your Number one goal.

Your emcee name is a interesting name, where did that originate from? What does it mean to you?

The Name Rex2slick just comes from me always finding away when nobody else knows what to do; sometimes I’ll hear somebody say “you to slick” or your a slick Lil n**** and everybody was already calling me Rex from my childhood name. Then I just put it together now I’m Rex2slick.

When you’re in the studio, what’s your process?

When I’m in the studio my process is finding a beat that fits me the most. Once I find the right beat ,I make a flow in my head to put it on top of the instrumental. Then once I do that I just spit my mind in the booth everything off the top of my head unless, it’s a song that I really wrote from the bottom of my heart.

For collaborations, who would you ideally want to work with?

I would want to collaborate with Roddy Rich one day. I can see me making Music with NBA YoungBoy in the future and another artist would be Polo G. I feel like they are are doing big things in the industry and are at a place I would want to be with my music at this point in my career.

As a black man, what challenges do you face and how you conquer it?

As a young 18 year old African American, I go through a lot of obstacles a day dealing with police to other people in my society. Getting treated unfairly by the police is one thing but when your in the school and you get a  sense of teacher being racist that’s when you find out how real life is.

Where do you see your career in five years?

In five years I can see me at (Meek Mill) level of success.. I feel he is doing a lot of things such as giving back to the black community and his hometown and investing his money good. That’s what we need to be doing as young black men to prove anybody who doesn’t believe In us just because the color of our skin.

What would you do if you had a million dollars? 

If I had a million dollars right now I would invest in a truck business because that’s way even if I ever fall off I would still have money coming in different ways & it’s a lot of money in the truck business & I would put some money into public housing fix them up and sell them The goal is to get nothing but legal incomes.

Where can we find you at? 

You can find my music on Apple Music , YouTube , Spotify , & Spinrilla my name is “Rex2slick” on all platforms new tape out “Never2late Ep.” Check my music video out “One Of A kind” on YouTube.