I got to perform in front of my favorite rapper, Lil Wayne.

I got off stage and I'm trying to act like I've been there before and not fan out.

And then he told me to my face, like your heart.

And I was like, thanks, bro.

I really wanted to hug him like, oh my God, you're Lil Wayne.

Like, whoa, I want a picture.

But I had to be like, yeah, hey, my name is Fedd the God and I'm an artist rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

I first got into making music, when I was, what, 16, 17 years old.

Me and my friends, we had a group called NWS.

I got in a studio.

I wasn't the rapper.

My friends were the rappers.

I was saying anything at first, but I had a flow to me and he was like, yeah, I think you should be a rapper.

And you sound nice.

Like I was trash, but I sounded good.

I was 17 years old.

I made a song called NFL, Northside For Life.

So that's my first hit.

I caught my second hit with Stunner two blackout Freak Girl.

We cut that hit.

And then, Now who Fedd the God, my first hit as Fedd the God ould be Bobby Boucher.

That was in 2018.

That's me as being an adult and really actually wanting to pursue music.

So I had hits from 17, 20 and 25 years old.

My process in a booth is freestyle, but it's kind of like not paper written, but brain written.

So I'll go in here.

I do four bars at a time, so I go in a booth, I do my four bars, and then I come out and read the room.

So I feel the energy and then Im like all right, they feeling this, their body language.

I go back in and do another four bars.

I come back out and now thats eight bars right there.

So now I got either a hook or I got the first verse or first part of the song.

So, you know, I do that and then I get to I can break up my eight bars sometimes.

Or this could go on a ramble and it'd be like too much at one time.

So I'm like, okay, this bar sounds good here.

Pick this bar later on in a song, or I might rap the song one way and then it's backwards.

So I'll switch the first four and other four round.

Then it sounds better that way.

So yeah, that's pretty much how I do it in there.

Growing up in Pittsburgh and specifically the Northside, shaped me just because it's hard byline You like, you know you're not going to get accepted, especially for doing something out of the norm like so and shapes you just it grounds you to a point that like your dream is your dream is nobody else's, is nobody else's job to support your dream but yours.

And if you're going to chase your dream, you got to make people respect it in Pittsburgh, like, you know.

So I feel like once I did that, once I was able to make people respect it, like not having the best resources, not having the best outlets to get my music out there, not even having money sometimes.

And I was able to make it happen.

Pittsburgh is going to embrace you.

They're going to embrace you.

They going to pull you up because it's like, hey, this is ours.

It's going to humble you.

it's going to kick you, its going to spit you out.

But once it gets you, it's going like, yo, this is ours.

Now we're going to cherish this and this is Pittsburgh versus everybody.

Once you make it in Pittsburgh to make it out of Pittsburgh?

You're going to be very successful anywhere.

The artist that meant the most to me was Wiz Khalifa.

Like working with Wiz and seeing him, like, grow up in this community and not get embraced.

And then for him to leave Pittsburgh and get embraced by the world.

But like I, Pittsburgh loved him, but the world embraced him.

He didn't have to.

Like he didn't have to do nothing, no, nothing he did for me.

So for him and Will to reach back and bring me into the studio and see what I got.

Like they really like, you know, before I ever made a song with Whiz, he was paying for studio time for me, just like, hey, this kid has something.

Let's let's try to help him before we show him everything.

They would send me books, like, before he even made a song with me.

Hey.

Let's see, how intelligent you are.

Hey, how?

Like this.

Like books about the music industry.

So when I get into the industry, that's when I knew I was going to make it.

When they started teaching me about the industry, I'm like, all right, cool.

And then when he came to Pittsburgh, he was on “Yo, come to the studio.” Came to the studio.

He put me to the test.

This is my first time I've recorded in studio.

It's my first time recording in a room full of people like, he put a beat on.

I get the going.

He stopped me.

I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong.

So now this is crazy.

You go right after me.

So I'm like, I'm stopping you.

This is crazy.

I'm going right out to you.

So it was this.

It was a real organic, natural thing.

with Whiz.

So that was like my number one ideal collaboration.

Just coming from here and seeing one of your favorites embrace you as an artist.

That was just great.

My grandma, two weeks before I got my record deal, she died.

So she never got to see my dream through because she's my grandma.

I was super confused about what I wanted to do because I was confused about what I wanted to do, but like actually seeing something through and not Like throwing it to the side.

I really wanted my grandma to see that.

So seeing my mom and my family members, getting to see that for my grandma, that's super cool.

That's probably the that's the best moment ever.

Like my kids getting to go on stage and them getting to meet some of their favorite rappers because of this is What I do was this my proudest moment probably.

The best advice I give for an up and coming artist and inspiring artists is just do it.

Just keep pushing, you know, every day is not what it seems.

And if you really are passionate about making music that you're going to go broke a million times about it.

It's like you got to invest in yourself.

Whether it's the smallest thing like take care of yourself, take care of your image, and just being just stay down.

Like, you know, it's hard.

It's very hard.

But stay for like, you know, but like whatever qualities that people gravitate towards, try to bring that to the forefront, try to make your best qualities that people love.

And then about you push it up, but also, you know, keep your ego like your ego, but a lot of separation.

Ego, like, you know how to turn off the artist and separate that from the person like you as a person is going to push your artistry forward, and people don't like you as a person.

They're not going to care about you as an artist.

The upcoming project that I'm doing is, I'm just going to drop mini movies every Tuesday.

I'm dropping them on Instagram, Facebook and X, so it will be heavy dose of songs that I have on upcoming project.

I don't know what it's called yet, but the more people that react to it are going to be the songs that I'm picking.

So I'm it's right now I'm giving people choice.

I'm putting out everything I got and y'all pick it, y'all react, y'all go crazy.

And then this is going to be the project whatever.

the ten, 7 to 12 crazy songs.

Is that y'all react to.

Out of the 40 maybe videos about to put out is what I'm gonna put out as a project.