We’re always fascinated to discover a new artist, or a talent we were previously unaware of. And we’re even more excited to be able to sit them down and talk to them a bit about what it means to be a musician and entrepreneur in the 21st century. This week, we had the pleasure of sitting down with rapper Vigalanty, and talking a bit about his art, and what it’s like making music in these strange times of ours.
Vigalanty is a rapper, but he is also so much more than that. See, when you say rap artist, you tend to think of a thug, someone hardcore, but without much emotional depth. Or at least, that is the popular perception, often misguided opinion on the matter. Well, Vigalanty is perhaps the man to prove the haters wrong, particularly with his track, appropriately entitled “Haters Gonna Hate” (which rose to top and gained plenty of traction).
While Vigalanty is one kickass musician that brings out a slapping beat that you will love obsessing over, he is also a skilled and powerful lyricist. He infuses each one of his tracks with emotion and always succeeds in building beautiful, resonating images with his clever use of words. That’s how a Vigalanty track is more than just a rap trip of good vibes. But then, this should come as little surprise, when we consider that Vigalanty started out as a poet, not a rapper or hip-hop artist. As any young man, he got interested in winning over the ladies, and what better way to do that than by putting your emotions into verse? Soon, however, the verses started taking over more and more of his mind, and Vigalanty realized he was no longer doing it just for the ladies. He was doing it because the art answered something primal and necessary inside him. The act of creation awarded him a beautiful, tantalizing freedom that he couldn’t quite let go of. Which is how he came to be working as a musician.
Though, of course, his journey has been by no means easy. A deep love of music rarely equates a smooth journey to the top, and Vigalanty had his fair share of difficulties, which he learned how to overcome. What’s more, rather than being daunted by that, he figured out how to grow from these hurdles, and let them chisel him into the well-rounded artist that he is today.
“Some people when they get these pains they stop, and it leaves a bad taste in their mouth and they just do not want to continue going or moving forward because they just can’t take the heat that’s coming from the other side and they never recover from the truth or the criticism. I knew I had to swallow the pill and just move forward so for me I looked at it as a master class that I was going through.”
