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Mixtape: Stan Bravo - Get Accustomed
September 1st 2007 12:11
If you have not already seen him supporting artists like Busta Rhymes, Nelly, Ja Rule, Ashanti and Jin. Or if you have not yet caught him making cameos for Ricki Lee, J-Wess, Camielle or Nino Brown. Then it is time to get acquainted. Allow me to formally introduce you to dear friend ours and a smashing fellow, the right honourable Stan Bravo Esquire. He has put together a new mixtape/album to help us all get to know each other a bit better. It is called Get Accustomed and it is mixed by DJ Peter Gunz.
Download the Split Track version HERE
Or the continuous one track version HERE
You started writing from a young age. You won a few literacy awards as a kiddie. Can you tell us in particular what sort of things you wrote? What was the subject matter of your writing back then?
I used to write a lot of poems and short stories when I was younger. I remember one time I was about 12 and I was going to a real conservative catholic school and I wrote this poem called "why" and in the poem I was talking about issues like prostitution, Drug Dealing, and a lot other f**ked things that were going on in my community. The teacher loved it and wanted to give me an A but the principal told her not too because of the "content". But my teacher loved it so much she entered it in this writing competition and I won. So even as a shorty the content in my writing has always been based on reality as I see it.
Later on you switched to writing rap lyrics. Can you remember your first rhymes what were they like?
Wack! Real corny! I was just saying anything back then trying to make the words rhyme. I had no direction. I didn't know what a 16 was or how to write a hook, so all my songs were just long ass rhymes.
Growing up in Harlem what was the most mischief you got up to as a youngster?
No comment! My momma might be reading this. I love you mom. Seriously though back then I really didn't get into too much BS. Firstly my mother is Haitian and anybody that's ever had a Haitian mother or known somebody with a Haitian mother knows her child knows what's right and what's wrong. I’m not saying I was an angel but lets just say I feared my mother more than my friends.
Now for the last 7 years you have been living in Australia, repping Blacktown to the fullest. What influence has Blacktown and just Australia in general had on your music ?
I love Blacktown. Shout out too all my b-town residents. Blacktown's the hood. And Hip Hop music was born in the hood so what better place for a rapper to be than the hood? You feel what I'm saying too you? See when your a rapper what you are effectively is a mirror to your world. So when you hear my records you're hearing Blacktown. You're hearing Harlem. You're hearing Australia or America because I've always been greatly influenced by my surroundings.
Now your track "I Can't Let You Go" has been getting some airplay on the Edge. Is this track inspired by anybody in particular?
Yeah she knows who she is. I don't wanna put her on Front Street, but she inspires a lot of my girly songs.
You talk about an intimate evening in this track. What is the most romantic thing that you have done for a lady friend?
To be honest I'm not a real romantic sort a dude. I mean I do little things to my girl to let her know I appreciate her like cook dinner for her or randomly call her to say I love you or I thinking of you. Things like that.
So you have been on quite a few tours including the infamous Ja Rule tour and the Busta Rhymes tour. Can you confirm or deny all the rumours going around about these two artists on these tours?
What rumours you talking about? Am I in them?
Stan the Man
Aight one time backstage on the Nelly tour me and the guys I went on tour with got into a real heated argument and I ended kinda trashing our dressing room. Michael Coppell walked in and told me off. He was like Stan what are you bloody doing? This isn't an 80's rock concert.
So what can we expect from you next?
Well I have a street album/mixtape I put out for free, just for the fans and haters. It's called Get Accustomed vol 1 mixed by the legendary Dj Gunz. The tape to me is some of my best work to date and for anybody that has ever bought a Gunz mixtape you know the guy is serious. So if you're not yet accustomed to the hottest mixtape out right now. You need to get accustomed by downloading it here.
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