Insights: Grant Huffman Shares Insights On His Music Journey

Was there anyone or anything in particular that pushed you to pursue music?

My dad is and always has been a very musical person. If it weren’t for him, I probably would have never learned to play the guitar and gained the core musical knowledge to be able to produce beats and make songs the way I do. It wasn’t only my dad though when i was 8 years old, my mother bought me “The Eminem Show” Eminem’s third studio album. This album’s music was my first experience with coping with the depilating anxiety that has plagued me since I can remember. The way in which Eminem flowed and things he said gave me a feeling of relief, and even excitement. I’ve been rapping ever since!

What has your musical journey been like? Run us through your story.

My musical journey started around middle school when I was really interested in becoming a Youtuber. I had been watching all of the parody music videos that were so prevalent on Youtube back then and decided to create my own. It was called “Cheerios: The Rap.” This was the only parody song I had released. started focusing more on my writing and rhyming ability, learning what it was that i needed to do to catch people’s attention. I wanted to WOW people and I knew I could. That takes us to my freshman year. I had recorded a verse over Kid Cudi’s “The Prayer” and to my surprise, everyone at my school thought it was amazing. I was getting compliments after compliments. This is about the time I realized i really had something, a skill, that no one around me had. So i began writing rhymes almost CONSTANTLY.

I went through a terrible 2-year long spout of depersonalization from a bad drug experience, and I’m not sure i would have made it through without this hobby. After High-school I moved to myrtle beach and created a hip hop group called “College Street kids” with my friend Tony Montana, another rap artist I had befriended at boarding school. We dropped a Mixtape on Soundcloud and had some real success for the first time ever. People really listened, and they really liked it. Tony and I were spitting more lyrically complex rhymes than damn near anybody, and in my humble opinion, we still do. Tony & I still continue to work together to this day, even though we have moved past college street kids and put out music as single artists. Just recently, however; is when my music caught some flames on spotify. As of this moment, I get about 15-19,000 monthly Listeners on Spotify (not Soundcloud) and have over 80k total plays. On Soundcloud however i have over 1.2 MILLION streams and 2.3k followers as one of my songs “My looking Glass self” went viral for a while.

What is the motivation behind such a lyrically rich and melodically unique single “Whatcha Doin”?

The motivation behind “Watcha Doin” was to make a GREAT song that could be enjoyed by the masses. I wanted to put something out there that was different than my normal music. I’d like to call it musical evolution. I’m starting to learn what type of songs do well and which don’t, and I’m trying to play on that to my advantage as an artist, without giving up any of my artistic integrity in the process.

Are you related to Jane Huffman, by any chance?

YES I am related to Jane Huffman. She happens to be my sister, 3 years older. She is an INCREDIBLE POET who is nationally recognized and a known name in the world of Academia. She recently won over 30 grand from the 2019 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenbeg Poetry Fellowship. She was recently accepted to her Ph.D. school of choice, along with many other schools. Writing poetry runs in our family blood I suppose. Her Wikipedia page will have more info about her than myself!

What does music mean to you?

Music to me means hope. I can’t imagine a world without music or the ability to try and create it. That’d be a very sad world and not one i’d be interested in living in. Seeing as that music is my full time job, and my full time passion, It’s basically everything to me.

If you are asked to collaborate with a renowned musician, whose name will you write down?

Joyner Lucas; without a doubt. He’s my favorite rapper out right now by a pretty long shot. His music and my music are similar in a lot of ways, We probably even have the same audience. (His just being 10000x bigger). I love his lyrical ambition and story telling skills. I am ALL ABOUT the multi- Syllable Rhyme schemes, and Joyner has proved to be elite in this category.

Are you working independently or with any production house or recording label?

I am working completely independently at the moment! Not to say I am against working with a label, we’ll just have to see what the future holds.

Are you working on any project right now and what can we expect from you in the future?

I am working on MULTIPLE projects right now, one of which is in my own opinion the best work ive ever done. I have song called “Snake Eyes’ coming out on feb. 26th. After that is when I will probably release the song I consider my best. You can expect a LOT of thing in the future. I have a ton of professional film equipment so they’re will be tons of youtube content very soon.

Thank you for speaking with us! For our final question, is there anything else you would like to add?

Not only would i like to thank anyone who bothered to read this article but I’d also like to ask you to check out my Spotify and follow me! All you have to do is search “Grant Huffman” in ANY major streaming platform, and you’ll find my music. Again, thanks a lot for taking the time and i hope everybody continues to have a great weekend! I couldn’t appreciate this article more!

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