{"id":271,"date":"2022-04-21T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/msp3196s22\/?p=271"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:04:42","slug":"boat-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/msp3196s22\/2022\/04\/21\/boat-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my most listened-to artists of the past couple months is also an occasional visitor of my living room. Domino is an up-and-coming Philly rapper who loves making music. He\u2019s been doing it since high school, when he, my roommate, Dylan, and another one of their classmates started a rap collective, Lobby 404<\/a>. Since then, he\u2019s gone independent, and released an album, a deluxe, and a handful of great singles.  He also performs at local venues sometimes, and one afternoon he was hanging out at our place before a show. I was fortunately able to use this opportunity to get to know Domino a little better \u2013 his musical history, why he started making music, and where he plans on going from here. This is an interview I conducted with Domino \u201cBoat Boy\u201d Gilley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How long have you been making music?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um, since I was 16. So, five years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many projects have you put out?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just three, I think. Like three albums. We got EP, with Dylan and my other friend, that\u2019s called Lobby 404, then we got WIP and WIP deluxe, which I doubled the set list. So it went from nine to eighteen songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the first song you made?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friend does this music festival, and I had written a rap, and he had forced me to perform it because he was like, \u201cthis is good\u201d. And I was like, \u201cno, it\u2019s not\u201d. That was the first song I recorded, back in summer 2017. Yeah, that was my first song. I don\u2019t have a name for it, but there\u2019s a video of it somewhere out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you start making music?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The realistic answer is because my mom took my brother to get a new phone but didn\u2019t take me to get a new phone and I was upset about it. So I was like, I\u2019m gonna write some raps. And then I was like, wait, this is actually kind of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right. Where would I have been if I had gotten a new phone? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who would you credit as your biggest musical inspirations?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay. Childish Gambino. Every rapper I listened to, I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t sound like that. I don\u2019t sound like I\u2019m from the hood. I sound like I talk white\u201d. And then Childish Gambino came around. I was like, \u201coh shit, wait. He\u2019s tough\u201d. So, Childish Gambino, Tyler, the Creator, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Yachty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where would you like to see yourself in five years? Do you think that\u2019s a realistic achievement for you?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In five years, I wanna be promoting other artists. I wanna have a platform big enough that I could put on other artists and help them out. I wanna be going on tour in five years. If I can be on tour in 5 years, that would be happy for me. And I feel like that\u2019s realistic. I think I can get it done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then final question. Among the smaller artists you\u2019ve met. Who would you list as your biggest inspirations?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan and Ant are definitely my biggest influences. Anthony is a better rapper than me, or at least, better at wordplay than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s Anthony?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony. He\u2019s a part of the rap group that I was in in high school. Lobby 404. Every time I would hear a verse that he had, I was like, \u201cShit, I gotta be like, \u2018backspace, backspace, backspace\u2019. I gotta rewrite my shit\u201d. And then making beats. I would listen to Dylan\u2019s beats as my reference track. But those two are definitely my biggest influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you very much!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

If you get the chance, check out some of Domino\u2019s music, on any streaming platform. His latest single, \u201cBoat Boy<\/a>\u201d, is an incredible display of Domino\u2019s strengths: great rapping, awesome wordplay, and a killer beat Domino personally mixed, mastered and recorded. It\u2019s the first single released for his upcoming album, and he\u2019s got a lot more music on the way, so make sure to follow<\/a> him to see what he does next. You\u2019ll want to stay tuned \u2013 Domino only plans to go up from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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