What made you start to pursue music after that first experience?

Rellix:It was all written in the East. After that cypher I started rapping every day and I wanted to be the best. When I wrote poetry it was just me writing my thoughts. Rap made me express them. I wanted to prove more, it felt like a test. I started a group called Diamond Dust, Double A, Chieft, Rondo, Young Vinci, and myself. Pretty much I got everybody in the original cypher on this rap shit for real. We started cutting school going to Rondo’s house and rapping. I started engineering because we needed to record and render songs so I downloaded Audacity. We didn’t even have a mic at the time we were rapping directly into the laptop. I had us battling other people and all that. Eventually it got to a point where everybody knew me for rapping. 

So I hear you talk about the east a lot. Talk to me a little about that. 

Rellix: Whenever I say the east im really talking about East Flatbush. The dream started in the East, that’s where my cousins and family are from, it was there where I knew where I really wanted to take this shit. I moved back to the East in 2016 and  I was running into people it was always love there. I been putting it a lot in my music ‘cause I been calling for home. One thing covid did was make me feel far away from home. So I’ve been saying it a lot.

So as you hit high school what was your plan to continue down this journey?

Rellix: I wanted to go where the rappers were going. So I was applying to high schools and writing academies that I knew the rappers were going to. The issue was, everything I was doing in middle school caught up with me and I wasn’t getting accepted. So I had to go to a small high school called Freedom Academy but it was good because it expanded me mentally. I diversified my friend group and I realized how big the city was. Before that all I knew was Brooklyn, all my friends were from Brooklyn. Now I’m engineering less and rapping more but im just on the block. Not doing enough. Real life started to get in the way and eventually I got into this zone where I’m extremely to myself and anti-social. I was still rapping but I was to myself. I love those times because the inspiration comes from life and life was happening at those times.

So what changed?

Rellix: I got to college and I met you and we started building. I learned a lot about myself by understanding you because, we’re similar. But life was still happening around us, my three brothers got locked up and then my cousin but we supported each other and I got back to business. I became more centered I understood I couldn’t just be fire or be water I have to be in the middle. The competitiveness made me better as an artist but also more comfortable as a person. My biggest competitor was my biggest support. One of the biggest lessons I learned was don’t take shit so personal sometimes.

Recently you just started it put more of an emphasis on quality and movie more with a sense of purpose, Take me through the inspiration behind this new energy.

Rellix: People often forget that artists are people and go through real situations because they only see the work. You moved south because life was hitting you and then I also lost my aunt. I felt like a lot of the things that I didn’t want to happen just kept happening. Now I’m back at a place where I’m by myself. At the time I worked at Starbucks and there was this singer need Jewelz that used to come in there. We used to talk about music and she found out I engineered. She came up on an opportunity where she got signed at a label and they were putting her team together. She gave me a chance to come to Quad with her. One time while I was there I ran into a DJ who invited me to an event that was going on upstairs so I went. I saw a lot of key people in the New York music scene but eventually Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow walked in and I watched the room change. I was able to talk to Sleepy Hallow and he gave me his email. At the time I wasn’t comfortable with the music I had out at the time. While I was networking Dolo was able to secure me a relationship where could get studio time at an affordable price. That gave me a motivation when I had none.

And you took this opportunity and did what with it?

Rellix: F50 had just came home and we took off together. We would split time at Quad and even when I would go over he never made me cut my time once. It’s things like that, that lets you know this is the type of individual you can make millions with because he’s already there mentally. He’s not tripping about the small stuff. The engineer Danny is fire, and he’s been adding to the music with his knowledge too. I’m just the artist now I don’t have to worry about engineering anymore. I did Pull Up On You, my first song with my brother F50 and I knew I had something special. I posted the snippet on social media and a friend from the east, Ammadeus, plugged me in with my videographer, Slimm, and we made magic. After that we shot Leak$ which also did numbers. We here now. Im building the team and everybody’s on timing.

Are the people getting an EP anytime soon?

Rellix: If the people want it. I got it for the people but the people gotta want it.

How do you want people to feel after experiencing your music?

Rellix: Every song has a message in it. I paint pictures but it’s up to the person whatever pictures they see.