Romey Featured on the Get Your Buzz Up Mixtape - Midwest Edition, Hosted by DJ Pain 1
Romey, the Midwest King, is featured on the recently released Get Your Buzz Up Mixtape - Midwest Edition.
Along with the upper eschelon of Midwest hip hop artists like the L.E.P Bogus Boys, James Wade, Yung Crisis, and host DJ Pain 1, Romey sets this Coast 2 Coast sponsored mixtape ablaze!
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Hiphop DX: Romey
There is no better school when it comes to Hip-Hop than that of experience and no better a location for that school than the streets of Chicago. Having pulled from all regions and coasts, one thing that can be said for your Chi-Town rappers is they always wear a different coat to their home-town associates. From the tonguistic Twista, to the cognizant Common and to the lyrical Lupe, each persona embodies a different dynamic encouraging the stability and recognized diversity of their city.
Romey is no different. Rapping from an early age having studied the works of the masters, Rakim & KRS One, he looks like he is ready to find an available spot and make sure his name stays as constant as his contemporaries and his teachers. With an ability to recognize the areas that an unsigned artist needs to work at it is only a matter of time before he finds a situation appropriate to his needs.
With multiple mixtapes to his credit, an endorsement from Makaveli and having opened for nearly every major artist who has swept through the windy city, Romey gets into just what makes him and his state unique with us here at HipHopDX. Filling our MYSPACE artist of the month spot, he talks future plans and gang culture giving us an insight to what life before the dotted line is really all about.
Can you give us a brief background on how you got into rapping?
I got into rapping at an early age. I would listen to all the old school rappers from my uncles tape collection. I use to spend hours studying all the greats; Rakim, LL, KRS One, Run DMC, then once I got into junior high I just start battling and performing in talent shows and any other place I could perform, so I started trying to be a rapper very young.
Romey: Rising Son
“If Wisconsin was a province,” boasts rapper Jerome “Romey” Hunt, “I would be the Rap Prime Minister of it.”
As Romey shows me around his Soundcheck Studios on the lower level of the Genesis Enterprise Center in Madison, the 6’7” rapper is relaxed, funny, focused, introspective and self-assured. But his prime minister boast begs for a follow-up question: Do you have to have a tremendous ego to be a good rapper?
“I don’t have a big ego, but I do have a lot of confidence,” Romey says. “When your head gets too big, it makes people not want to work for you and not want to root for you. But with that being said, you do have to have a certain swagger and a certain confidence to be a good rapper.”
Having had to face an enormous amount of adversity in his life to get to where he is today, it’s hard to say where Romey would be right now without that confidence. Romey has seen the worst of the worst — including being shot three times in a robbery attempt in Milwaukee in 2007 — but has turned the negative images around him into moving street narratives. Music has been his means of expression.
“Music is powerful. It’s a part of almost everything,” Romey says. “My circumstances and my hard-knock life are no different. It’s definitely played a major role in keeping me out of trouble.”
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