Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it-
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
The ethos to D dash flow and the blueprint to his plans all reside in the words spoken by Malcolm X. If you want something bad enough you will achieve it to a certain degree, has always been the mentality and the force behind the music.
Currently working on an his debut album titled the Icarus Project, a journey into the mindstep of an individual. Not a caricature but a real life insight into the heaven and hell we all face. As its often said reality is often far worse than fiction.
D flow started of hating music in general, often failing to find something emblematic of his views in that current timefame. Then came hip hop like never seen before, commercialled and rife for the masses.
He was swept in the wave, but with the fascination came obsession and he soon found his tastes deviating to the more aesthetic elements of hip hop. With less emphasis on club suitability, hooks etc, he moved on from artists like Jay-Z , Mase & Diddy he moved onto the likes of Nas,Slick Rick, Ghostface Killer,Rakim, Canibus,Dead Prez & Mos Def.
Influenced by all these artists, along with his love for poetry and writing. He began merging his own stories into the works of those various artists, and gradually came along with his own style.
Describing himself as a social commentator d flow shies away from the conscious tag, descring the tag as implying that everyone is not conscious and the artist is preaching to the masses from a point of enlightment.
There is a line between conscious and the commercial and when bridged, artists are often seeing as selling out, but d flow transpires this by talking about everyday life, if it’s a club song for example he talks about the materiastic whilst also delving into deep issues faced by us all.
Not many times can an individual truly say they did an album for them, truly staying true to an artform and belief?
Not many, and for that reason alone , be it stubborn pride and a never ending relationship with hip hop, this album will be the one that he can truly say he put his all in. The first and the last, or the first in many, only time will tell………………..
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