Tobe: How were you introduced to live music?<\/strong> When did you actually start performing?<\/strong> What did you play?<\/strong> So what made you decide to make hip-hop out of all the music you could have made?<\/strong> Is it important to you to be self sufficient in that way?<\/strong> Yeah, but you still choose to perform with people. You have a crew.<\/strong> So, when are you going to release another album?<\/strong> How are you going to release it?<\/strong> What venues have you played so far?<\/strong> When was that? <\/strong> What time and where is Open Mic Night every week?<\/strong> by Tobe Burgos-Passiglia Catch Farris and other local musicians on Wednesday Nights at Moe\u2019s Penny Bar. On Thursday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":76689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7887],"tags":[14610,272,10756,14380,13213],"class_list":["post-76686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-farris-swisher","tag-hip-hop","tag-moes","tag-open-mic-night","tag-penny-bar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/received_669005930220323.jpeg?fit=2142%2C2142&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Farris:<\/strong> The first concert I saw was Foo Fighters in Memphis when I was like 8. I think that was also the year that I got a drum set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve performed live before I ever did it as an artist. I\u2019d done it as just a musical performer in middle school and high school band. That\u2019s kind of where I learned how to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In concert season I was kind of all over percussion, but in marching season I was on drumline. I played snare. I was pretty good; I don\u2019t want to toot my own horn or anything. But, you know. Even whenever I started getting into making hip-hop I wasn\u2019t really thinking of performing either, just because I started out producing so I never really imagined myself on any stage, I imagined my beats being played live for everybody. I think even when I started initially rapping I still didn\u2019t really think about performing, I was just doing it to do it. I\u2019m not really sure what flipped the switch, I think just incrementally got more serious about the career as I went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I actually liked it. I don\u2019t necessarily dislike any one form of music, but hip hop has always been my favorite. It just made sense. I didn\u2019t need a band to make hip-hop, I just needed me and that\u2019s it. It\u2019s very much a do-it-yourself type of genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/received_338647417050115.jpeg?fit=900%2C858\")
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Yeah, I think so. On one hand it saves money. I don\u2019t have to pay anybody for studio time. Don\u2019t have to pay for beats. Usually I can do what I want on my own, because I\u2019ve been working towards doing that. It definitely pays to be self sufficient. If you want something done right you do it yourself type of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, well, that\u2019s different. They\u2019re not rapping my lyrics. I\u2019m rapping my lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My new project VR2 comes out May 31st. Pretty excited about it. I think it\u2019s my best work yet. And I\u2019m only getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just through Apple Music, Spotify, Itunes, Amazon, Google Play. I use DistroKid\u2014shout out DistroKid. And then we\u2019re also getting some flash drives made with my name on them and the albums Virtual Reality and VR2 will be on the flash drives. Those will be for sale, too. That will be really fun. It\u2019ll be my first real piece of merch. That\u2019s the only physical way that the album is being released, otherwise it\u2019s just digital. Wherever you listen to music it will be there, May 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moe\u2019s, both as an actual show and just as doing Open Mic every week. And this one time a couple years ago me, Wavy [Xantana], and some other cats performed at The Levee and that shit was fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was, let\u2019s see, it was 2016. It was like, the second Monday once the university had gotten in session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the Moe\u2019s Penny Bar Wednesday nights from 9:30 to close. We usually try and shoot for the 10:30 to 11 pm time slot. We being me, Scooby [Da Kid], Wavy [Xantana], LaCardi, sometimes Tr333. When he\u2019s feeling it, at least, and he\u2019s not at work. Yeah, we shoot for that somewhere between 10:30 and 11:30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/received_2131738166943677.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024\")
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