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

DaKloud, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

I believe that your taste music in itself is like different food pallets. Not everything you make will be a hit to everyone. A song or poem you make may be boring or tasteless to someone but it could be exactly what someone else needed to hear to get through whatever life has been throwing at them. Whenever I create my music I try to create pieces of art for those who get it and needed to hear. Whether it’s my hype songs like “Hot, Kumo, or Hallo-Stars” or my deep and personal songs like ” Heartbeat, Sometimes, and Goodness.” I try to create something meaningful for all musical tastes. Being from Baltimore or even listening to the popular music in the rap industry you really don’t hear much music like mine. I honestly try to make music that I would find myself and think it’s hard. I try to blend the wordplay of artist like Big Sean, Lil Wayne, and Tee Grizzley with the energy of an Xxxtentacion. Comethazine, and Skimasktheslumpgod. I still want to give the feeling that gets everyone excited when they hear a drill song without telling everyone to kill and rob throughout the song because realistically that isn’t me. Being a black man from Baltimore you have to sound, look, and act a certain way to make it big or make a name for yourself and I believe I represent a new face and style to the Baltimore Rap scene. If my presence on a track doesn’t get you, the emotion and wordplay will.

DaKloud, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I go by DaKloud or Kloud for short. Da being the slang of how I say The and Kloud being from the quote keep your head in the clouds. Which in my words means to have unrealistic dreams or ideas no matter what situation you are going through. The K in “Kloud” is just the first letter of my name. Being from where Im from, seeing the things that I’ve seen, and living the life that I’ve lived it seems impossible to become this huge rapper to most but to me I’m already there. I can already see my fans from all around the world finding this article when I blow and learning about the life of Kloud. The reason why I got into rapping was because after one of my favorite artists Xxxtentacion died my brother (Kamviar) and I had a void from his death and not having more of his music that we couldn’t really fill. Kamviar decided that if he can’t make the music anymore we will try to make music to fill that void ourselves. This is when The Stars was formed. We started making songs in some studio in Baltimore just to see how we liked it and created some of our most memorable phrases. For example, the way I say “Kloud” on my hype tracks sounds similar to how X said “Clout” because I wanted to pay homage to him for making me believe I could even do something like rapping and because of how much I enjoyed his music. Eventually Kamviar and I made enough songs together we just put them all together and made an album. That album was “Binary Stars”. We dropped that album and you could almost feel the buzz and hear the chatter of “The twins rapping, or the twins made an album.” That was all we needed to take it seriously. The more seriously we took the music the bigger and better the reaction got. I’d have people coming up to me that I’ve never met before telling me lyrics from my songs and multiple people opening up to the way my music made them feel in my DMs. But seeing a piece of art that you’ve created with your ideas be appreciated was some of the most rewarding feelings that I’ve ever felt. Once we saw this we capitalized on it and created our second album “Talent Show” which went CRAZY in our very small but growing fan base. We began throwing little house party concerts, performing at parties when they’d play our songs, getting thousands of plays, studying marketing for music, and started to grow. It was such a euphoric feeling. At that moment I knew we were special and we had an actual shot at this. Since then Ive dropped my solo project called “Head In Da Klouds” and Kamviar has dropped so many albums I don’t even know. He’s been working. I took a very very long and needed hiatus for a lot of mental health reasons, pressures of life, and personal things but I can definitely say that DaKloud is BACK. I’ve lived so much life and been through so much since then I feel like I could write a book about it. Floating in Da Klouds coming soon and Talent Show The Second Act in the works right now. Im coming back with everything that I’ve learned from last time and I know this time will be alot bigger.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

I wish I would’ve known that dedication and discipline is the most important part to making quality music. And that a lot of these people in the industry are just trying to scam you because you don’t know anything but it’s apart of the game.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I think my main goal is to get these feelings off my chest but also to make money, have fun, and be creative while doing so. I want to connect to more people, change the image of a black rapper, and see how creative my mind can be.

Contact Info:

• Website: dakloud.com
• Instagram: DaKloud
• Facebook: DaKloud
• Twitter: DaKloud
• Youtube: DaKloud
• Other: Go to my website or scan the QR code attached to see where you can stream all my music and get connected to my social media outlets.