Houston artist Kirko Bangz speaks on ushering in melodic rap, music w/ Drake, R&B album, going indie

“In life you gotta turn them emotions off and keep going and keep progressing” ~ Kirko Bangz
Houston, Texas legend Kirko Bangz makes his debut on The Progress Report Podcast with Lalaa Shepard and DJ eXeL to speak about getting into music in college and going viral on Facebook, being raised by a single mother and oldest child of 3, background in sports, ushering in melodic rap but not receiving recognition, looking up musically to Lil Wayne and Eminem and constant comparisons to Drake, Texas OGs embracing him, issues with his former record labels and going independent, supporting female artists, and his latest R&B album titled, ‘CallMeKB’.
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0:00 Kirko Bangz TPR drop
0:09 TPR theme song
0:33 introduction
0:59 New Music Mondays
1:18 who is Kirk Bangz?
1:52 “What Yo Name Iz” song memories
2:30 dropping freestyles on Facebook while in college
2:54 remix experience with Bun B, Big Sean, and Wale
3:32 first introduced to autotune
3:53 no musical background
4:15 skin care
4:56 Aaliyah and real R&B music
6:40 R&B music coming back
7:10 other musical influences
8:17 making music for the ladies
9:23 did record labels understand your voice?
10:31 issues with the record labels trying to change his sound
12:04 TPR commercial
12:33 record labels not playing fair
13:18 music business changing
13:49 TikTok
14:33 UMG pulling their music from TikTok
16:50 promoting music
17:25 positive experiences being signed to a major record labels
18:30 getting out of record label contract with Warner
20:23 what can artists do when they are signed and shelved?
21:15 mixtapes and albums and getting out of contract
22:28 being raised by a single mother and oldest child of 3
24:11 hooping and not turning to the streets
25:12 mom getting him into college after having a chemical plant job
27:10 leaving college Junior year to pursue music career and mom supporting his career
27:41 buying his mom a house
28:31 name some Houston, TX stuff
29:25 Houston, TX in early 2000s
30:10 being embraced by Texas OGs and Paul Wall first embracing him
31:55 supporting artists from Texas on the come up
33:23 Mike Jones and NLE Choppa sampling issues
36:53 producers sampling his music
38:40 Victoria Monet shoutout
39:28 credit for creating the melodic rap genre and comparisons to Drake
41:57 beating all rappers in basketball
43:10 thoughts on artists of today
43:55 supporting Sexyy Red’s “SkeeYee”
45:50 do you have to have drama attached to your name to be successful?
46:59 thoughts on the Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion drama
47:30 thoughts on YSL drama
48:10 Texas artists can tour in Texas alone
49:01 “Treyson’s Letter” song dedicated to his step son
51:24 favorite memory being Kirko Bangz
51:47 new acoustic R&B album ‘CallMeKB’
55:02 define our keyword “progress”
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Lala you looking good girl !! Y’all keep it up

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39:30 ...I agree that No one from Houston sounded like Him before Him. But Ushering in Melodic Rap?...Bone Thugs N Harmony will FOREVER get the Credit for that. Drake would tell ya that too. Much love to both those guys.

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