Let’s come to one conclusion: we
all have those days where we want variety. This is true for many items, but
most of all for music. What happens when the fulfillment of variety meets
talent? A musical mixture called Masego. Sharing the face of Micah Davis,
Masego is an artist that balances old with new, classical teachings with modern
flare, and toe-tapping beats layered with familiar sounding melodies. Micah
Davis, current freshman here at Old Dominion University, provides listeners
with all of these elements, taking ideas from the imagination and eloquently
stitching them together in harmony.
“The people I heard, it was just
like really ‘thug’ music. ‘Smoke weed, get biddies,’ and all that stuff like
that,” said Davis, “And I was like, I don’t wanna do that. I wanna make music
that benefits my community, so I started doing it and writing lyrics.”
It’s not just important for artists
today to get an audience to move and share the love of music, but it’s also
important for them to be able to think about what they’re listening to. Usually
cleverness is pushed to its limit when it comes to rapping, but Masego gives
you something more to chew on other than words that just flow together.
“I would say my main purpose is to
provoke thought. Think deeper into a situation,” commented Davis.
Masego’s first mixtape, “Sides of
Masego Volume 1: Sax” is part of a three-set mixtape collection. The mixtapes
aim to provide listeners with different leading instruments over tracks
produced by Davis. This idea of changing style is the key to leading a
successful career in music, as it gives the listeners something different every
time. There’s nothing more disappointing than a whole collection that sounds
like one long song on repeat. Variety still remains to be the best fitting adjective
to describe Masego as a whole, along with the runner-up word, “relatable”.
“Like, the purpose of “Sides of
Masego” was to put sides of myself. I don’t want people to just say ‘oh you’re
the guy that plays sax’, I want it to be ‘you’re the guy that just plays
musical instruments.'”
On a personal level, Micah Davis as
a musician seems to be an artist with his head on a good pair of shoulders. A
son of a pastor, Davis strides through life with morals about treating people
right and just keeping everyone on a level of high esteem-without the
compromise of values. He doesn’t need to curse in his music to get a point
across and he believes in rapping about real life situations that are relatable
to a wide spectrum of ages, cultures and beliefs.
At the end of the interview, he had
one more message for the readers of this blog.
“There’s no
gimic like ‘hey, please support someone who sucks’. I wanna give you good
music, I want your feedback and for you to communicate with me”.
Be sure to check out “Sides of
Masego Volume 1: Sax” on his website. See Masego on the list of atists under
the Musicians/Producers tab. You won’t be disappointed.
2/29/2012 04:57:00 PM
Jessica Scheck
