And then there was a Kanye phase, But yeah, Andre 3000-and Big Boi. My first raps, I was trying to replicate Andre 3000. So your earliest raps, in your math notebooks or whatever-what were you writing like? That’s what really opened my eyes to the fact that this music is shaping people, and is guiding people’s lifestyles. streets, I think that’s what showed me what rap culture was about, not just rap music. I think going to Inglewood High, catching the bus through the city, being an independent teenager in the L.A. But Outkast, artistically, is what made me want to rap. My oldest brother-he’s my half brother, my dad’s son-he put me up on Outkast in 1996, and I had already started to take a liking to Tupac just ‘cause I liked how he moved through the world. My grandmother, she used to tour and ended up slowing down in order to take care of her kids. My first time making a beat I was 8 years old and it was on my uncle’s studio equipment, so music was always in the family.
Even as kids we knew we wanted to do music. We used to go to his jam sessions as kids it was the one time when my parents would let me stay out ‘til 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, just because it was so in line with what we wanted to do for ourselves. My uncle played bass for like, Chaka Khan, Prince… everybody. You had an uncle who played bass, too, right? This was largely due to the influence of the actor and director Tasha Smith, who was a family friend and who helped secure D Smoke for a guest role in Peacock’s Bel-Air. In the early 2000s, he secured a number of guest-starring spots on television shows including CSI, Boston Public, and Judging Amy. If he has his way, D Smoke’s belated success will not be relegated to music. His follow up album, War & Wonders, deepens Habits’s grooves, further establishing D Smoke as an expert in terms of song structure, narrative writing, and vocal dexterity. Last year, his debut album, Black Habits, was a surprise Grammy nominee for Best Rap Album, alongside Royce da 5’9”, Alchemist & Freddie Gibbs, Jay Electronica, and Nas (who won for King’s Disease).
#Season 2 of rhythm and flow series
That streaming notoriety, combined with a series of songs that highlighted his ability to mine his own life for dramatic tension and move seamlessly between English and Spanish, earned him an enthusiastic fan base. That changed virtually overnight when D Smoke won Rhythm + Flow, the Netflix hip-hop competition series judged by Cardi B, T.I., and Chance the Rapper. But for a long time after, D Smoke’s own songs were not heard outside his immediate community, or the classrooms in which he taught. Some early success-shortly after high school, Farris signed a publishing deal alongside his relatives, including the now TDE-signed SiR, and penned “Never” for Jaheim-teased the young artist with the possibility for more.
Before breaking through to a national audience in 2019, he had worked quietly for years, honing his skills as a rapper and producer while holding down a job as a music theory and Spanish teacher. “My one rule is I don’t start writing a verse until I’m in love with the first line,” he tells me. Daniel Farris, the 36-year-old Inglewood native better known as D Smoke, has had to learn to be patient when waiting for the perfect opening.
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