{"id":21836,"date":"2017-12-13T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=21836"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:28:41","slug":"harry-dirtface-london-rapper-talks-about-inspiration-for-his-new-project-the-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/harry-dirtface-london-rapper-talks-about-inspiration-for-his-new-project-the-joyride\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Dirtface: quirky rapper talks about inspiration for his new project ‘The Joyride’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Words: Isabella Dawe | Subbing: Lavinia Petrucci<\/h6>\n

We caught up with rapper and producer Harry Dirtface to talk about his upcoming release ‘The Joyride’<\/h3>\n

Harry Dirtface, formerly known as Dirty Harry, is a Nottingham-born hiphop artist with a unique and eccentric style. Tracks titled ‘Sloppy Toppy’ and ‘Leanwithmycrew’ paint him as a drug-taking, womanising, trap-inspired rebel. But his impressive self-made instrumentals and clear influences from genres including punk, rock and blues make him one to watch in 2018.<\/p>\n

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The JoyRide artwork<\/p><\/div>\n

You recently started dropping tracks from your first project, The Joyride. What can you tell us about that?
\n<\/strong>The joyride is about me living life, taking some drugs here and there. There were some tracks that I had, I threw them together and got some nice art work drawn up.<\/p>\n

What kind of music do you listen to?
\n<\/strong>I like some Portishead, Beck, Ab-Soul and the rest of TDE. I like some Erykah Badu, a few different things.<\/p>\n

That’s quite varied, so you listen to lots of different genres?<\/strong>
\nSort of, yeah. There’s this band called The Mile High Club – they got this crazy album, that sh*t just makes me feel good. I like to feel good when I listen to music<\/p>\n

Do you think your music makes people feel good?<\/strong>
\nUhhh, I’d like to think so. I’m still working on getting my vibe right, and I have made some depressing music lately. I’ve been experimenting with punk sh*t, music that makes you feel something.<\/p>\n

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I heard you recently started studying at university, tell us about that\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI’m studying Commercial Music – I wouldn’t consider myself a commercial artist but I’m just trying to study and further my craft a little more. I want to get my production up to a high, high standard. I’d like to be able to mix and master like a pro<\/p>\n

So you’re into being independent as an artist?<\/strong>
\nI like to work on my own stuff, and I also really like to make music with my friends. I haven’t even really thought about labels either, it’s crossed my mind but I’m on some independent sh*t. I like to have creative control over my stuff and I don’t like to be told what kind of music to make. Sometimes I might want to make music about suicide, other days I might want to make a feel-good track. I like being able to do what the f*ck I want without being forced to make hits all the time. I don’t really see myself as a hit maker.<\/p>\n

You also moved to London recently, what bought you here?<\/strong>
\nMy girl *laughs*. Nah, university really. I just wanted to kind of get out of Nottingham and escape my comfort zone because I’ve been there for a long time. And even though I have settled down here now, I’m enjoying being in a new environment with new surroundings and new people.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BVCnk7NluUb\/?taken-by=harrydirtface<\/a><\/p>\n

What can you see yourself doing in the next five years?<\/strong>
\nI’d like to continue what I’m doing now – making music, smoking weed and preferably not working. I’d like to make a little money off the music, enough to eat. And then I can just live in the studio, that’ll be fun.<\/p>\n

If you could work with one producer, who would it be?<\/strong>
\nMaybe Kanye. He’s just unpredictable, you never know what he’s going to do<\/p>\n

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The first six tracks of The Joyride are available on Soundcloud now<\/a>, look out for the full project on Spotify and Apple Music sometime this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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