RESPECT. Premiere: Boobie Holiday "Foxxie"

Rising artist Boobie Holiday releases visuals for the brand new single “Foxxie.” Lucky for us, we were able to briefly interview the artist as well. Check it out below.

RESPECT.: How instrumental are you the visual direction/creative process of your video?
Visuals are probably the most important thing to me by far, so I’m really hands on. I write my own treatments, and I work with a great team as far as being able to feed ideas back and forth with the directors and cinematographers. “Foxxxie” is my first shoot in NYC, so I was able to cast the homies and scout the locations. Bknott and I really just wanted to project disenchantment and hell within self, and really just brought it home with his wild edits.

What is your process when it comes to picking your beats?
So my in-studio process is a lot different than my at home bulls***. If I’m in the studio with a producer of any kind were gonna roll some backwoods, chop it up and make something from scratch. Run a loop and bring in some drums until we’ve got a song that’s how I prefer to make music. At home, roll up, open my email run through kits. When you hear your voice that’s the beat.

When you enter your creative mode, what’s it like?
The f***ed up thing is creativity can sneak up you at any moment and you snap into that mode. It doesn’t matter whose around what you’re doing, Steve Jobs looked out for the cookout. These iPhones amazing you can make beats on this shit if you wanted. You can write in your notepad, write a treatments in Celtx. It would be nice to be in a zen garden with candles lit, but in New York you spend 75% of your life in transit.

How did you develop this specific flow and cadence?
Repetition really is just the father of learning, I started making music in 2014 and we’ve damn near made 500 songs and 200 unfinished never to be finished. The more shit songs I made the more mixing I learned about my voice and how I wanted to connect across the beat. One thing anyone around me will tell you is when I’m working on a project I can’t listen to new projects. Sometimes it comes off immature, but I wanna be a blank canvas and I work off the classics, a lot of System of a Down a lot of Gucci Mane.

Top 5 artists dead or alive?
Top 5 dead or Alive? Are we talking Hip-Hop or in general? If Hip-Hop, I’m gonna have to say in no specific order: Lil B, Kanye West, Key!, Young Thug and Method Man. In general? Kings of Leon, Lil Wayne, Teena Marie, Chief Keef and Prince.

Do you feel the sound is continuing to evolve based on current music trends? If so, how are you preparing for that?
I feel like styles are evolving off of other people’s styles, everything’s zombie mode and motherfuckers eat it up. So all you can really do is stack your styles get on your ODB and unlock all 36 chambers. I love music and the more unfamiliar sounds I get exposed to the more I evolve as an artist, so I’m always doing my homework looking for that deep cut that inspires the next project.