Nicki New is creating a buzz through his online presence. The 28 year old artist has somewhat created a new genre through experimenting with multiple sounds before mashing some together and finding one that he could call his own. Nicki is no stranger to music as he has been working on music since the young age of 11 giving him 17 years of experience! We got the chance to catch up with Nicki earlier this week and decided to ask him “How did you first start in music? He had this to say. “I grew up around music specifically, hip hop music, and I was like I could do that then over the years it turned into a form of therapy for me. From there I thought about releasing the music. Every Song of mine got recognition, But I would take it down because I didn’t want to be famous. I don’t really like the attention either, But I thought to myself someone could get something out of my life story so in 2018 I really said fuck it. I gotta do it for everyone else that’s either alone currently and has been, because I know what it feels like to feel alone and it’s not a good feeling at all!” We found this to be very empowering and selfless of Nicki, As he puts the thoughts and feelings of others over himself. You can tell that he got into music all because of the love and passion with his main goal being to help others through his craft. He also does not want any of his listeners to feel the loneliness that he has felt. Nicki was born and raised in The Big apple of New york city. He now is based out of and lives in Wyoming, He says that he really enjoys the peace and quiet as it is a change of pace from the fast New york lifestyle. Nicki lived in Arizona for a while also and thinks of it as a 2nd home too. The Pandmeic has put life on halt for all of us. Many artists stopped making music altogether as they lost lots of creative inspiration from being locked in the house. Nicki gave us a brief summary of what the Pandemic has been like for him, He said this. “Not too bad, I played a lot of Call of Duty Warzone and became an affiliate on Twitch because of how good I ended up getting. I also was working on music throughout all of it. Other than that though it was pretty lonely but it ain’t nothing new to Nicki lolz”. We found this to be a good response as Nicki has still been working very hard on his music and has found other ways to build his online presence like having a following on Twitch. Different artists enjoy different things about what they do, Some like to party throughout their lifestyle while others truly enjoy the process of making music. We asked Nicki what his favorite thing about being an artist is and he responded simply by saying “The process”. It is good that Nicki enjoys the creative process of starting from nothing and building a song as some artists are just making music with the hopes of money and other things. We do not know what the future holds, But we know that it is important to have goals or plans for the future so that you will have things to focus on. This is why we asked Nicki “Where do you see yourself in five years?” He responded with a bold goal saying that he hopes to sell out Madison Square garden, one of the biggest stadiums in the US. We do not know if Nicki will reach this goal but if he does not we believe that he “Fall on a cloud” and still be very successful with his music. Usually artists have many or at least a couple inspirations that helped drive them to start making music. We asked Nicki “Who are your biggest inspirations?” He responded with a ton of names raging from a couple different styles of rap. “Snoop Dogg, Warren g for the flows of course, ice cube for his storytelling, Tupac and really all of the G-funk era. For east coast, nas, mobb deep, Jedi Mind tricks, papoose because alphabetical slaughter is crazy great on its own, big pun, wu tang clan, and of course obviously biggie those are just some off the top.” To this date Nicki has well over a million streams across all platforms; his most recent album titled “My Sound, My Story” is available on all platforms. He also has two singles dropping very soon! To end off the article Nicki had one last thing to say to his fans or anybody else reading this saying something very powerful that everybody should hear. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude, so get up, get tough, and go get it!”