We had the good fortune of connecting with Fatboi Sharif and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Fatboi, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
Wanting to take my destiny in my own hands in a field that I’ve always been interested in and inspired by.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I believe my brand of hip hop that I create has its own style and can’t be duplicated, while lots of others are interested in popular trends and other factors for me the art is always the most important, if we not inspiring and pushing boundaries creativity we might as well not even get into is how I always look at it. It certainly wasn’t easy at all along the way, over a decade of hard work, sleepless nights, lost relationships and growing wiser and stronger. From my music I want people to embrace being different and understand that there’s no rules.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Im from Rahway, New Jersey and was raised there, it’s a amazing city with a upcoming art and music scene that’s inspiring. When people come from out of town to visit I always take them to eat at the waiting room it’s a amazing restaurant and bar that has been a staple in the community for more than twenty years. In that area also theres a arcade that was just built over the past year that has gained lots of traction. The rahway library and recreation center are also two main staples in the area that was huge for me in my upbringing until now.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
My family was very instrumental in my love of music and appreciation of the arts since a child, my house was varied in musical taste from soul music, smooth jazz, hip hop and around that time i was really into punk rock and heavy metal. That all inspired the direction in my music over the years as well as my early exposure to poetry which i was heavily involved with

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Image Credits
Edwina Hay

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