The Break Presents: Huey P

As Seattle continues to buzz with new artist like Sango, Dave B and many more, Huey P is starting to gain a solid fan base. The young MC has put out quality music within the last year and has worked with artists like Ty Dolla $ign, Wale, Tory Lanez, Cassidy and J. Winans. Huey's mixtape, Did You Get the Message, released last December, proves the West Coast native is off to a promising start in the game. His momentum got the attention of DJ Drama and the two linked up for 206253.

"I just dropped my first big project 206253 with Drama, the first Gangsta Grillz in Washington State," Huey told XXL over the phone. "We’ll be dropping a lot of visuals and material. I’m over 20 features right now and that will be coming out soon. You’ll be seeing and hearing a lot of Huey P for the rest of 2016, a lot of shows too."

As things begin to heat up, learn more about Huey P here.

Name: Huey P

Age: 27

Hometown: Seattle/Tacoma, Wash.

I grew up listening to: "I grew up listening to a lot of soul, a lot of old school like Marvin Gaye, Tony! Toni! Toné! As far as rappers go, I came up on niggas like Beanie Sigel, Lupe Fiasco, Joe Budden, Cassidy. I listen to a lot of everybody. Drake, Nas, I came up with a pretty versatile group of people.

I grew up in the church. My family, my grandfather is a pastor, my grandfather is the first lady, my mom is the songbird of the church and my brother plays the drums. My family was really musically oriented. Anything we did kind of revolved around music. I would say around 12 or 13 I wrote my first rhyme. I was the youngest, instead of wanting to sing or wanting play an instrument, I wanted to rap. I wrote my first rhyme and kicked it to my cousin’s best friend on his school activity bus one day off a ring tome. He looked at me like, ‘Hey bruh, you can really rap.’ Since that day it ain’t stop."

Most people don’t know: "I’m just a normal guy. I’m just a humble dude. When people first get their impression of you as an artist or rapper, they stereotype you. I have two kids, I rap, I do the regular things but my work ethic is what sets me apart. I don’t think a lot of people see me as just a regular person."

My style’s been compared to: "Now-a-days people just describe it as a J. Cole, Kendrick, Drake sound, like whoever is hot. It has it consciousness but I like to show in my music that I’m human. I have my ignorant moments, I have my intellectual moments, I have my moments of sadness, spiritual enlighten, I kind of portray that in all of my music. On my projects you’re not just going to hear one sound, or hear one song and expect the next song to be about the same thing. That’s not how I make my music. I make my music based off of life. I can’t compare my music to somebody else’s sound because honestly, it doesn’t sound like other people."

My standout records or moments to date have been: "My track “iNever” has got a lot of buzz because it’s more of a party track. I got a track out with Tory Lanez that got a lot of recognition. If I had to select one that got a lot of recognition from I was say “iNever,” off my project Did You Get The Message."

My goal in hip-hop is: "My ultimate goal is actually bring a change towards our culture, which influences the younger generation, which influences my kids. Somehow impact and influence the culture in such a way that it influences our younger generation to keep influencing the right things; positive things, positive messages and glorify the right things. Not just glorying being a hustler or a trapper. A lot of the influences are just backwards to me."

I’m gonna be the next: "The next change and that would be something that I would take very seriously to heart. I not only believe that me and my team have the capability and mind state to be the next big change but I want to be. And if it’s not me, I want to at least spark the idea of the younger whoever that actually sparks the idea who makes the change."

Follow Huey P on Twitter and Soundcloud.

Standout: Did You Get The Message

"Stupid"

206253: Gangsta Grillz