Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Charles Grayson, Chuck G. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Chuck G, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Being an independent artist is all about taking a risk. You never known what song will hit, connect with people. The payoff takes an extremely long to happen. It’s extremely rare the the payoff is right away. I’ve taken risk when doing shows. The song(s) that I’ve done something doesn’t work and the crowd can care less, other times the song immediately connects with the crowd. It’s always a risk

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I started rapping when I was about 13/14. My first time I ever really went to a studio. I was in high school and I also worked with a record label called as one records what I try to do is write a song a day which very hard to do because I’m very busy I still have a 9 to 5 but I still try to write a song every day or at least every other day and I always try to write a different song to capture a different feeling. I don’t want my songs to be too similar because no one will want to hear any future music because it sounds exactly like the old music. a lot of problems that I do run into is everything cost. Making music isn’t cheap. Another thing that’s difficult is finding my niche audience. I go out of my way to make sure my sound is different from the production to the lyrics and a lot of times, people don’t to really hear anything new because it’s unfamiliar. What I’m most proud of is that I put my debut album out it took about two years. It’s called Born Threat. Born threat is very personal to me. It’s very political and has a message of black empowerment. I took my time to make this album and the way that it’s put together every two songs go together. They tell a story so when you listen to the album, you listen to the album two songs at a time and you’ll get a very short story, but an impactful story.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

The lesson I had to unlearned very quickly was that everyone doesn’t like my music. A lot of times when artists start they believe that everyone’s gonna love their music and the first song that they put out everyone’s gonna to love. The fact is that rarely happens what really happens is you have to work and work and put out a song that connects with the masses. Sometimes the song isn’t delivered and a way that people will receive it or sometimes it comes off to preachy. So I quickly had to learn that it’s not the first song that people gravitate towards us usually the song that you really don’t like and the song that you really like most people don’t like.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The reaction from the crowd. to see their faces change as the song progresses or their mood change because the song has impact them in a way that you did not see. I love it when people React to my music because it has touched them deeply. When they can repeat the words, when they can tell me their favorite parts when they tell me a song has gotten them through a rough time or help keep their mood up that is the most rewarding thing about doing music.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Chuck_g10
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• Youtube: https://youtu.be/DkWEMwQJERE?si=pSudrmvSoFHc95tf

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