Pomona, CA – Pomona is a city roughly 30 miles east of Los Angeles and for many is known for existence the location of the annual 50.A. County Off-white. West Coast Hip Hop aficionados understand the surface area as the home base for rap legends Suga Free, Cold 187um and Kokane. One Mexican American rapper/producer also making his mark on the city is Immature Drummer Boy.

Coming from a musical groundwork (his father was a member of Mexican Rock Band Banda Rubi and grandpa a Mariachi), he left gang life solitary once he linked up with pop L.A. rapper Rex Lil G as an in-house producer for his AK47Boyz crew.

Striking out on his ain, Young Drummer Male child had his breakout moment with the release of his 2015 anthology High Forever featuring the Krypto-assisted "Coke Dealer." Other projects similar Barjud Ave and High Forever 2 would continue that upwards momentum earning him over ii one thousand thousand YouTube views and millions on the streaming side as well.

Last calendar month, Immature Drummer Boy dropped Same Click, which found distribution through EMPIRE Distribution. The album is a full W Declension affair featuring guest appearances from $tupid Young, Azjah and Rucci amidst others.

Without major radio play, broadcast looks or fifty-fifty coverage, Young Drummer Boy has spent the terminal decade building his fanbase within his hometown and surrounding areas. Speaking with HipHopDX, the 909 representer explains exactly how he pulled information technology off, existence a rapper of Mexican descent, building peer respect, why he stopped making beats and more.

HipHopDX: Last month you dropped Same Click through EMPIRE Distribution featuring some very young West Coast talent characteristic wise. What were the goals for the project and building peer respect as you grow solo artist wise?

Immature Drummer Male child: I'g actually blessed to be doing the moves I've been making. Especially with EMPIRE you know? Information technology'south something that'south new to me but has been actually good so far. My goal with the projection was to cater every bit much as I could to my fanbase while trying to expand my new fanbase. Trying to reach new fans and stuff similar that. I just attempt to rest information technology out whatsoever style I could.

I call back building with peers is very important because I didn't do that earlier. I was boxed in. I never ventured out. When I was producing for the cats I was producing for, I was more of an in-house producer. A lot of people didn't know I was the one producing tracks that were getting millions of streams and views. They didn't know I was even on the hooks. Now branching out and working with artists like $tupid Immature, Azjah, Rucci and many more. I experience like this is a stepping stone for me. Now I'm able to reach these different artists and their fanbase. Similar Azjah fucks with me. At starting time, information technology was business organization and after we met and vibed and shit now me and her are cool. Whatever she needs from me she got information technology. I barely started learning that. I think it's important for united states to come up upwards together. I can see that more than than I seen it before. We all have our following and do shows, we'll be selling out every venue. That'south in the smallest sense. If you look at it similar that, it's something more people should do.

I'g all for it.

HipHopDX: Describe growing upwardly in Pomona and coming from a musical family unit. Do you retrieve your first time dabbling in beat-making?

Immature Drummer Male child: Growing up here is similar growing upwards anywhere for anybody. Information technology's all I knew. When I saw the poverty, what my family was into and how I was actually living from the outside looking in betoken of view, I didn't look at it in a bad manner because I was with my friends having fun. I remember growing upward kind of gave me a unlike understanding. It fabricated me a harder shell. I was more on guard. More than probable to go into conflict because information technology was what I had been shown. For usa, it was an everyday thing. I didn't know annihilation else. When the sirens used to be running up, downwardly the street, gunshots at night, bullet holes in the garage and stuff like that, I idea everyone lived like that.

When I was younger, my dad really influenced us to all play instruments. I learned how to play the drums at a very young historic period around five years old. My brothers were taught bass and some other the guitar. 1 of them was a singer and then he tried to influence u.s. as much as he could into music so we wouldn't lose it. He was similar the last generation to bring it over here from his side of the family unit. If we didn't do any blazon of music, information technology would be dead in our family cause there wouldn't be anyone to carry it on.

I started dabbling in music hither and there; making beats. I was making beats on a karaoke auto. I would practise it tape to tape. I would get a little keyboard and would start a little shell off get-go that off in the record so add snares and stuff. That was manner before I started using beat machines and all of that.

HipHopDX: Could you lot explain the turning point in your career and when things got serial in regards to progression?

Young Drummer Boy: When my lilliputian cousin got 32 years to life. I was already making beats and he would rap well-nigh gang shit. I rap almost gang shit, but it was neighborhood music. Information technology was music strictly for my neighborhood for my homies to bang. Once he went to prison, that's when my large brother took control and shifted my heed into making music. Once that happened, he gave me the tools necessary to exercise it. He gave me my freedom. He let me stay with him and equally long as I was focused on music, everything was absurd. That'south when I started taking it seriously. Once I knew I was having my son my blood brother decided to open a studio and pour a gang of money into it, once we opened this studio.

I think it was about the final two and a one-half years. Nosotros're talking about a ten year plus career already. I experience very blessed to be able to practise that. I don't have to hustle or doing odd jobs to brand coin. I guess one time I was able to purchase my spot, purchase my baby momma a brand new auto and take care of my son. At the same time, I tin can take care of my engineers, my trounce makers and the people who helped me get to where I'1000 at. I ever have to sit back and await back at what I've achieved. At the same time, I'grand always striving for more. This music is a real struggle. At the finish of the day, I gotta step dorsum while pushing frontward.

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HipHopDX: In an interview with Roscrans Vic, you mentioned making the pick of going from rapper/producer to mainly being merely a rapper. Where did that determination come from?

Immature Drummer Boy: What I haven't mentioned is that the reason I don't produce my shit or a lot of it even though I take my hands in information technology because I noticed that my rhymes and my beats were starting to sound the aforementioned. I have a sure beat style. Then the beats that I was making for the couple of artists I was working with had a certain vibe that I helped create. Every bit I wanted to change my fashion and vibe, I had to pace back from the beats to expand my mind equally a vocalist. Finding different patterns and stuff similar that. I was rapping the same on my beats and they would sound the same. The reason why I got different producers and why I'm grateful for that, I hear dissimilar styles and am able to become on my ain. I can exist more creative.

HiphopDX: With the rise of Latin music globally, what are the benefits and struggles of existence a Mexican American rapper in Southern California?

Young Drummer Boy: The benefits of existence a Mexican creative person is that if you lot real and stay true and you go along it, gangsta, it'south easy to get that Mexican fanbase. The downside of it is that nosotros have to work extra hard to get the outside fanbase. I'm non trying to reach 1 dissimilar genre. It'south e'er going to be gangsta rap. I know we oasis't reached a certain amount of people because we box ourselves in. I experience like we haven't reached all the Mexican fanbase though. I'yard trying to stay true to my civilisation and myself and my people without having to segregate myself from artists who aren't Mexican.

Growing upwards in Pomona, I wasn't taught to be racists. We simply had gang problems and enemies issues as opposed to 50.A. where things can get racial. It was different for me.

HipHopDX: With that said, you lot not simply take the 909 on lock but you frequently perform in areas outside of California also.

Young Drummer Boy: I got a huge fan base over hither and in the surrounding areas which is why I rep 909 so difficult for a reason. I'm not merely saying Pomona because people already know where I'grand from and they run into the music videos. People from downward hither already know. I got homies in Ontario, San Bernardino, Chino, Fontana. I become honey from all these areas. I did a show out here in Ontario at a venue that no ane heard of and I was one of the start to practise a bear witness there. I was expecting like 200 or so people to testify up and all on my own 700 people showed up. That was a humbling moment for me.

It's humbling when you run across all these people show upwards to shows. I've been to small donkey places also like Chehalis, Washington. Tiny piddling spot. It was nuts considering y'all tin tell they don't go a lot of artists to show upwardly much. It was a different way of living. Even when y'all become to Salt Lake City, Utah. They way they live is a trivial different. They gang civilisation over there but it ain't the same way every bit information technology is over there. It's humbling seeing people fuck with your music from places you've never even heard near.

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HipHopDX: Though Same Click is merely a month erstwhile, should we expect more than music from you in the future?

Young Drummer Male child: I'm working on an EP right now. I similar to speak shit into beingness and nosotros're already locking things in. I'k about to hook up with the homie Kap G and Phoenix from Shoreline Mafia. This EP tin can be coming in the next few months. I want Same Click to keep going for a little bit. That'southward the side by side step for me. Just working with more people and making a foundation for myself. I'm simply trying to build my fanbase and touch as many people as I can.

Follow Young Drummer Boy on Instagram @drummer909 for more updates on his album rollout and tour info.