Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Romique Thompson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Romique, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?
The first time i knew i wanted to pursue a creative path professionally is when i was growing up watching my cousin Shamann, rap and make beats here in Richmond, Virginia. Throughout the years of him perfecting his craft, he was fortunate enough to move to ATL and meet with big names like T.I, Rick Ross, Lil Duval and many more names. Him inking his deal with Roc nation also gave me hope to keep going and chasing my dream of becoming a global music artist. The more i listened to music and i saw how rappers were living the lavish lifestyle, it also make me wanna go harder for the finer things in life.
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,Romique Thompson (born April 3, 1996), professionally known as RockstarRican , is an American rapper and songwriter. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. I rose to Popularity in 2021 with his single “Talk Too Much”, which surpassed over 400,000 streams on spotify in just 30 days. I grew up listening to Lil Wayne, Boosie, Drake and Fabolous while in a household with his single mother on the Southside of Richmond Virginia. Growing up he wanted to pursue a music career to support myself along with my family members. In 2016, me and a couple other friends went to a recording studio where i recorded my first song and thats when i fell in love with the recording studio, and from there i used my money i was making from my part time job and help from my family to buy my recording equipment and set up a mini studio in my room so i wouldn’t have to pay anybody to record music. A few weeks after i got all of my recording equipment set up, i recorded his first song in my room titled “Rock”, which i posted the song snippet on Instagram and it gained 350k views causing it to go going viral on my instagram account which got me seen by Sony Managment. I then went to Atlanta to work with Sony affiliates to talk about how they could expand my brand and after that took place, i felt like they were a supportive team and would help take my career to the next level.
Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?
Honestly, i feel like NFT’s are a big scam, but who am i to tell anybody what to do with their money? If people want to buy into them, oh well & good luck
Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?
Honestly, i created my instagram in 2011, and from there i just would post pictures and not even getting 15-20 likes per picture. Then throught the years of having instagram i started doing shoutouts with people who i met that had more followers than me on there, and from there i grew my instagram bigger than ever, then i ended up getting into music to keep the people entertined. And the reason i say that is because i was gaining over 3,000 followers a day due to being in mass group shares, but long story short i didnt want my new followes to get bored and unfollow me, so i started doing music, and once i saw their reactions it pushed me to keep going. But yes, the key to building your brand on social media is by doing share 4 share with other influencers, or even pay influencers to be posted
Contact Info:
- Website: https://hoo.be/RockstarRican
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rockstarrican/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/romique.r.thompson
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/rockstarrican
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCjugMtiHXT9JfU-W22fT01g
- Other: www.tiktok.com/@rockstarrican https://audiomack.com/rockstarrican https://music.apple.com/us/artist/rockstarrican/1468611031 https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KBU4WkFfoFhiKnUCKC4JF?si=JpWLM0IYQaaZiOJ29_ws0w