AR16 – Artisin and Reks Interview
Check out our exclusive interview with AR16 – Artisin and Reks
I2G is here with AR16, how’s it going?
All is well thank you!
Artisin: I am feeling great thank you!
You recently dropped your new single entitled Super Power. Tell me a little bit about the single and how it came together for you.
Reks: Super Powers is a song produced by ShortFYUZ featuring both Artisin and me (REKS). Artisin had this idea to showcase our strengths in a way that was empowering and it has since taken on a life of its own with an animation video, cartoons graphics and a soon to be released comic!
Artisin: I got the beat from ShortFYUZ and I seen where he got the sample from and I immediately thought super powers. I laid verse and hook and sent it to Reks he rocked with it when he laid his verse he told me he wrote the hook in his own way I remember saying I was thinking he should do the same and some time later on I put cuts of Broly from Dragonball Z charging up this uncontrollable power.
Its one of those tracks that every element compliments each other perfectly. We call that a layup!
What are listeners in store for when your new album, Kill Writers Block, drops.
Reks: A return to projects you can listen all the way thru because they present like a full movie.
Artisin: I think they are gonna get a range of a thought provoking entertaining landscape of sound and we touch on topics like dealing with losses and we do some time travel we speak on the youth and mental health don’t want to give to much away though.
Do you have any Mixtapes or albums set to drop?
Reks: I spent 2024 dropping 12 eps/lps which was an epic run. Kill Writers Block is my first release of 2025 but I have several projects in mixing stages with producers like STN, Five Fingers of Def and Myster DL
Artisin: I have Works of Art Vol. 2 in the works I dropped Works of Art vol. 1 in April 2024 Im looking at a release possibly for late summer and I am working on project with Mistameana as well!
Do you have any more upcoming videos or singles?
We are releasing a single called Eat What You Kill featuring Estee Nack next. We are also releasing Losses with a cowboy inspired video shot by my wife Queen Philosophical. She also shot a video for the title track Kill Writers Block and she shot the video for Anotha Time featuring Termanology. Eat What You Kill was shot by our brother King Philip.
What are your current thoughts on the music industry?
Reks: I think there are massive opportunities for todays artists to be creative with independent releases. Learning every job in the industry affords us immense opportunities
Artisin: I think the opportunity to change the scope has presented itself more than ever before and there is so many resources now and we can do it being to ourselves .
What is currently playing on your playlist musically?
Reks: Meditation Sounds mostly lol, seriously though.
Artisin: 38. Spesh is dope Ea$y Money and Phelia Drug Money is dope too! I bump beats more than anything cause Im always thinking about what to make next.
Do you have any shows or tour dates?
Currently we just got back from a run in Dever, Utah and Seattle. We have shows in New England to suuprt the release (Shaskeen in NH on June 22nd with Marcel P Black and The Middle East on June 29th with The Freestyle Clinic. On June 26th we are in Brooklyn with Skyzoo.
