YRN XHRIS Breaks Into the Industry With Heavy Hitter Affirmation, “Keep Going”
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"Why am I doing this?" It is a logical question, and a resounding line that many of us humans' reference day-to-day, especially when life is lifing while we are giving it our all.
Whether it’s goals, dreams, the drive to fight with both arms swinging, to come out of debt, impoverishment, mental drain, and unyielding dilemmas'. It could be that one reflective term that gets us through to the other side of those things, and it's precisely the lyric, that YRN Xhris uses to inspire the masses with is latest buzz single, "Keep Going."
The native of Tallahassee, Florida said it was strange when he began doing press runs and seeing other black people that didn't know what it was like to live in a trailer park, which is an environment that he calls home.
"My upbringing was just like poverty and trailer park. What I'm noticing... I thought that a lot of people grew up in trailer park, but I guess they didn’t," he replied when asked him about his upbringing. "I had a trailer park come up, which I feel like had molded me to a monster. When I come to North Carolina, ya'll are like, I never heard of black people in a trailer, but it's common in Florida."
Xhris said Webbie was his favorite artist, although that fondness wasn’t enough to inspire him to become an artist. He didn't have an interest in rapping. "I wanted to play football for real, but I was just in a lot of trouble. I love football. When football season comes around, I go to all the games. I am cool for the whole football season. I'm bored when the football season ends. My circumstances stopped me (when I was younger. I was just too bad. "
The crime in Tallahassee, Florida from the last two decades made up a high percentage of the youth and young adult offenders until they reached the age of 29. It’s noted that they were either victim or the suspect in most cases and those cases propagated from the underserved communities. Unless Xhris changed his demographics, there is no way that he could avoid getting caught up in the streets.
Xhris was product of his environment where demographics mattered like the west side, south side, north and east side. Xhris repped the south side, where him and his partners had a falling out with the crew from the north side. After the blowout, Xhris got a juevenile charge just under attempted murder.
Xhris was hardcore like the actors in the movies, though he admits that alot of things he did, was really stupid,. Nevertheless, his actions were the real deal; so, he spent much of his childhood in juvenile detention, which bolstered as he became an adult with drug charges.
"It was dumb. I was going too hard for the neighborhood, and stuff like that."
Xhris didnt start rapping until his early twenties, where he did a freestyle with his friend named Money Chaser. Xhris wasn't a lyricist, but he'd go back and forth lyric for lyric with Money Chaser. Obviously, Xhris could flow, because after a while, his friends would tell him to post his music, even though it's something that Money Chaser was already doing.
Once Xhris posted his freestyle in 2021, Xhris grew fervent about his craft, and he kept posting. He took the rapping more seriously after doing a stent in jail.
The rapper didn't envision that he'd get signed to a record label, but apparently purpose was bigger than the vision Xhris set for himself because South Coast Music Group saw something exceptional in the young man… a star in the making -- Xhris credits God for the alignment.
"I feel like, that's why I'm standing out as an artist because alot of people are, and even the people I talk with... they expect you to get one song, and you go up, or you get signed and now you can own. It's a lot of stuff to it, but me personally; I wanna be a household name on the label. I gotta still learn the business on top of rapping. Then, with the music, you can always get better; so, when I'm in the studio, I'm learning different stuff with my voice and how to double it. I'm still learning," he replied.
South Coast Music Group is known widely for breaking artists into the industry like Da Baby and Blacc Zacc. It comes as no surprise that their artist's development is top tier, and Xhris is taking full advantage of all the wonderful things that the label has to offer.
"I learned a lot, like how to talk, like how we're doing now. I used to curse every sentence. I learned how to be more of a people person. I'm learning how music is supposed to sound actually, the real sound. I feel like, over here I'm able to be a student to the game, to be honest. They haven't stopped me from being a student. Most artists are lazy. I do a lot of stuff on my own. I can knock out two videos and do all my content, and this week I can go to the studio and learn. South Coast, allow me to keep my artistry in control— and they just let me learn, and they don't try to block out anything, I would say.”
And speaking of control, Xhris released "Keep Going," an inspirational track that started as a freestyle while he was in Miami. Xhris touted the opportunity as Gods timing since he was on the road, traveling. Xhris didn't think the song would do as great as his other tracks, but it became a relatable message for listeners all walks of life.
"That song done implemented itself in my life," he said. "it be BS happening, but I know I got a goal, "I gotta keep going."
"I always wanted to quit, but I kept going," is a line from the song that became a larger-than-life admission once Xhris heard it on the radio.
"Once it dropped, I realized this song is bigger than what you think, cause it aint just with rap or sports, or like, I done been in juvenile prison where guards was like, "Oh! You gone die in prison, or little stuff like that; so, that's what I mean that I was always (explicit) messing up... it's been a lot of times in different facilities and different jails, and to see where I'm at now. Now, I really implement keep going cause I know a lot of people didn't think I'd get to this point.”
Xhris dropped the 11 song album Still Heating Up and “Keep Going” as buzz single. He released "Kick the Door Down" featuring Bossman Dlow from that project, that takes off like hype, and turnt vibes for the summer, with overly loaded hooks while his single "Trailer Park," featuring TrapDickey is a nostalgic flashback to his upbringing of being impoverished although he still had support from his family and childhood friends. It’s giving the stay down until you come up inspirations.
Xhris admits that the trailer park is what shaped him as a teen, but it also opened his eyes to the possibilities of becoming a successful black man, and not just a monologue or stereotype, the way the correctional officers from juevenile detention labeled him.
"I just had a goal," he said. "Looking at it now, I did exactly what I said I was gone do, so right now I see the potential in myself."
The lyricist said that he's always texting collaborators, Bossman Dlow, TrapDicky and Big Yavo, just to thank them for working with him, which is humbling.
In his free time if there were such a thing, Xhris enjoys hanging out with his bros, going to games, and doing fun things for his mental escape when life is lifing; but he enjoys writing music as an expressive outlet for understanding.
The music is a purposeful and spiritual journey for Xhris.
"It's like, when you doing this, you're still learning, and you see how people are. A lot of people think I have a million dollars. They don’t realize this is my first steppingstone in the industry. I'm trying to establish myself. It's a purpose for everything. A lot of people start acting in certain ways and all that type of stuff. Don't nobody see what you are doing."
Xhris said expectations are high but no one understands that it takes time to climb to the top, and it takes a lot of work behind the scenes. He never tries to stay in place because he's always trying to go bigger and harder.
As for the climb, he's got unreleased music, that's still in the vault-- He's waiting on the right opportunity to bring the singles out with a few tweaks.
Xhris would like to make music with Kodak Black, Rod Wave, and YN Niece… “YK Niece is a female that I like. I wanna do something with her, too. I like her vibe. She turnt,” he said. “I feel like I grew up with a lot of YK Nieces.”
The rapper attended a meet & greet in Charlotte, NC recently, hosted by DJ Chuck T, and presented by South Coast Music Group. Even at the meet & greet, Xhris took pictures, and gabbed with the crowd. He did all the personable things with good energy and an invigorating spirit like the 90’s era of touring. He says that all opportunities make him feel grateful.
“I was just extremely thankful and blessed. I would say the meet & greet, I think in a regular day, I wouldn’t have pulled the microphone to speak to everyone— I was just so thankful, I had to grab the mic, to thank everybody. I appreciated them. It’s just like, I’m just thankful cause when I see stuff like that, I think, boy I was just in a cell, so I am overly thankful and overly grateful.”
In the next year, Xhris plans to establish himself as a household name by making music for everyone. He advises that the signed and unsigned artists have that same thirst, to get their music heard by outworking everyone.
Xhris has a profound excitement for breaking into the industry by being himself— Xhris has an exuberating vibe that gives, ‘Don’t meet me there, beat me to the top. Let’s work!”
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