An Ipswich rap artist delighting in chart success after turning other individuals’s stories into tunes said the previous couple of months had actually been a “whirlwind”.
Seekah Lytess, 32, put “removed back” freestyle video Dog House on TikTok, which got countless views in hours.
He said individuals discovered it “relatable” so he put out a require their stories to motivate tunes and got a huge action.
Last month his tune Reality was top in the iTunes rap and hip hop chart and number 12 for all categories.
Speaking to BBC Introducing in Suffolk, he said his existing success “wasn’t an over night thing”.
He then chose to “test the waters” on the social networks app, devoted to short-form videos.
“I was hanging back from TikTok for so long. Every time I went on I simply believed it was kids dancing, however I saw a lot more artists going on there and believed I’d make the dive,” he said.
He put a handful of videos up, however it was not till he chose to do something acoustic that the genuine interest came.
The very first verse of Dog House was composed on his method to work, the 2nd at home and the “chorus simply entered into my head” when he established his taping equipment in the cooking area.
He then got somebody to movie him performing it, sitting at a bench outside a regional pub with a beer.
“I wished to do [something] simply removed back, [with] no drums so everybody might hear what I’m stating,” he said.
“I believed it may be something… so I recorded it, put it out that night and within about 2 hours I had 100,000 views.”
Lytess said he believed its success originated from how it was “simply relatable”.
“I’ve been doing music for a very long time and it resembles you are so captured up on whatever being so best,” he said.
“I believed I’d simply discuss life [and] how it is for regular middle/working class individuals every day.
“I simply believe the reason that it’s gone so insane is that suddenly there was somebody who wanted to accept their defects, understood that they made errors and were comfy in speaking [about] that.”
He said he dealt with Dog House as “an essential point”, as he understood the design was what individuals desired, so he began publishing comparable videos.
Seeing individuals comment that his tunes were discussing their lives resulted in the series Your Story by Seeks, where Lytess requests those stories to be sent to him to be changed into a tune.
“The abundance of e-mails that came through was a bit frustrating,” he said.
“At one point I believed, I can’t do this… I’m putting myself in these individuals’s shoes which are extremely uneasy shoes to stroll in. I remained in unidentified waters.”
However, he said he started to get “terrific fulfillment from it”, since he was “assisting individuals and it offers me things I’d never ever believed to discuss”.
“My last one had to do with IVF – a couple having a hard time to have kids – and [I didn’t] believe in a million years I’d have actually taken a seat and believed to discuss that.”
Lytess said when Reality went to top, he was happy that individuals had actually engaged a lot with his work that they had actually sought him out far from TikTok.
“Reality was top for about two days – I simply could not be more grateful about just how much individuals are supporting me.”
Seekah has actually simply completed taping a main video for Dog House, due to be launched quickly, that includes comic Dapper Laughs, who contacted us after he kept being tagged in the remarks area on TikTok.
The rap artist said he was now all set for whatever follows.
“At completion of the day, if it’s what you wish to do you have actually got to be all set… I’m all set to go complete throttle.”
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