Q. Good day, ATM Daz! We appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. The first thing we want to know is how would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard your music before
A. I would describe my sound to someone who’s never heard my music before as different. I don’t make drill music. I try to be all around the board with it. Yeah, don’t get me wrong — I like to play around and have fun with my creativity, but sometimes I’d like to write about how I feel at certain moments and things that I’ve been through.
Q. Is there a specific song in your catalog that you feel defines who you are as an artist? Why that one?
A. A specific song in my catalog that I feel defines who I am as an artist is my track called “Taking No Calls”. It shows the maturity that has grown in my music from when I first started around 2013/2014. It speaks about everything that I’ve been going through and how I learned from it — the pain, the good and the bad, the ups and downs with old friends, family members, even the woman I used to deal with. The people I lost — all types of things.
Q. If you could collaborate with any artist, living or dead, who would it be and why?
A. If I had the opportunity to collaborate with any artist, living or dead, it would be Young Dolph, Young Jeezy, Kanye West, and Future. Young Dolph is my favorite rapper, plus I messed with bro for who he was as a person — stood on business, a real family man. He loved his kids, was raised by his granny like I was, came up in the same house as his cousin, like I did, and Ran the streets — straight hustler, turned nothing into something. Real hustler. S***, ever since bro died, I haven’t really been listening to music other than Future, Kanye West, and Young Jeezy. I grew up listening to them. I don’t f*** with the new Yeezy, but I f*** with all his old music. But he’s still one of my favorites.
Q. What's the biggest risk you've taken in your career so far, and what did you learn from it?
A. I haven’t really taken any big risks in my career yet — I’m just now starting off, to be honest. But other than that, it’s putting my money in the wrong places.
Q. If this interview was the last thing someone read before listening to your music, what would you want them to know?
A. If this interview was the last thing someone read before listening to my music, I would want them to know I’m an up-and-coming artist from Chicago, just trying to bring something different to the table — at the same time, give y’all me: who I am, my struggles, my ups and downs, my journey. I know I got a long way to go, but to those who like my music and are rocking with the movement, I appreciate you. And I’ma do everything I can to give nothing but good music.
