At nearly 18 years old, J Lord feels he is a child who has grown up too fast: “Thinking too much like an adult leads you to be too serious and rigid in dealing with things” explains the rapper who, to focus on his musical career, has chose to put the school on standby to resume it in the fall and attend it privately. In the meantime, however, Johnson Lord, his real name, born in Italy of Ghanaian parents, is enjoying success looking to the future with optimism and desire to do.
Happy Birthday to me, his latest single produced by Dat Boi Dee, allowed him to reach a new personal and artistic awareness while waiting for his debut album, and it is precisely from here that we decide to start: from the candles of a cake that celebrates a lifetime that, at times, J Lord feels he has “lived halfway”.
In the song at one point he says: “It was always the same life.” What life was it?
“It was a way of saying that you can never be complete: there are always problems or things from the past that torment you, you are never 100% free.”
What was the torment?
“The desire to remedy the times when you could not eat because there was no money, the emotions that you lived in first person and that always remain with you”.
What kept her going in those moments?
“The fact that it wouldn’t last forever because I would try to do something to change the situation. I remained silent and looked for an option, a way out ».
At one point he found it, he defined himself as a “beggar who makes cash.”
“The origins are forever, people continue to know me as the street kid who is changing things.”
What did the road represent for you?
“All. If you change, you must respect your values. My mother reminds me of them every day: “Never forget where you come from and who you are” ».
What are its values?
“The family, the people around me.”
Was there a time when he realized his life was changing?
“When I signed my first record deal with Warner.”
When was the passion for music born?
«My mother has always been super passionate, she passed it on to me a little. As a child, I went to church, on Sundays there were gospel choirs and I sang: I was always fascinated by the creation of sound ».
When did you start writing?
“At 13, in school with a friend, not giving a damn about the teachers. Writing gives you the courage to say what you think, in a way it helps you to heal ».
What were you writing about at that time?
“About everything I lived, the fear of having an accident, of dying, of losing everything.”
Now she lives in Afragola: has it ever been close to her?
“I am a person who wants to know and experience new things, live experiences, want to make music and tell stories: in this sense, I would like to venture”.
Where would he venture?
“In America. I would have a great desire to visit the difficult neighborhoods of Philadelphia, see for yourself the people who can find a way out of their broken life. Those who do not have the possibilities have more strength in pursuing a dream, they put more grit into it ».
What dreams do you have left?
«I prefer not to say them, I like more to create and implement things and then say that I have succeeded».
(Opening photo by Gaetano De Angelis)
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