Ok Carbon Talks New EP, GloRilla, Pooh Shiesty & Making Her Personal Manner

Memphis-born artist Ok Carbon is on a rocket-like trajectory up. An Atlanta resident now, she is hustling on a number of ranges, together with her personal hair bundle enterprise. She is about to drop an EP titled “Diary of a Hustler” and has the New Memphis over it. Large GloRilla, Glossup and others present up. Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur faucets in with Ok Carbon and he or she heads for the celebrities.

AllHipHop: So speak to me a bit bit about your self, your music and you recognize who’s Ok. Carbon?

Ok Carbon: You realize, I’m Ok Automotive, I blew up iHop Boo, huge Carbon. Don’t name me Kim, ho. Be doing my music factor. I be doing my hair factor. Okay. I’m an entrepreneur. I personal a enterprise in Memphis. Effectively, it originated in Memphis, so let me not say that, however I obtained my retailer in Memphis. I see hair principally like wigs and bundles like that is my hair. Okay. It’s been curled out, don’t even comprehend it’s advantageous. And I rap. In fact, I’m finna drop an EP, a hard-ass EP. “Diary of a Hustler.” It’s dropping on the twenty first.

AllHipHop: Who’s going to be on there?

Ok Carbon: I obtained YTB Fatt, I obtained GloRilla, GlossUp, Aslimeelsa, Big30, Melo Buckzz. However I actually didn’t plan on making it an EP at first. I used to be sort of increase some songs. I used to be going to drop the singles, however then I considered it. I’ve by no means achieved a mission, I haven’t achieved a mission. In order that’s what made me be like, oh, let me assemble a whole lot of this work that I’ve been doing with a whole lot of my new stuff. Let me make a mission.

AllHipHop: Oh, why not a full album?

Ok Carbon: Effectively, as a result of I’ve by no means even achieved an everyday mission. So it’s sort of like I need to tease ’em first, get ’em prepared for me after which on that.

AllHipHop: So how was it like seeing Glorilla and GlossUp blow up?

Ok Carbon: It’s nice. I realized rather a lot. We skilled rather a lot, and had a whole lot of enjoyable. Only a lot. Experiencing it collectively was like all of us realized what we realized collectively. So it’s enjoyable. It’s a studying expertise.

AllHipHop: Is that one thing you need to observe of their footsteps or be your personal individual by way of being an artist or a star?

Ok Carbon: Yeah after all. I love their work at all times. However when my time comes I obtained to do my work first.

AllHipHop: Now somebody instructed you me that you’re cool with Pooh Shiesty. Is that true?

Ok Carbon: Yeah, that’s my bro.

AllHipHop: How’s your relationship now?

Ok Carbon: We tremendous shut. We nonetheless shut. We be writing one another and sh#t. He simply wrote me and I want I may simply ship the music via the mail. He at all times goes loopy as hell when he hears my music. So lately he heard my songs that I simply dropped with Mello Buckzz and 30 and he such as you getting more durable and more durable by the day. He calls me Beno. He was like, “Beno you getting more durable and more durable by the day.” So I want I may simply ship my complete f###### EP via the mail.

AllHipHop: I’m glad you’re holding him down. So, what’s your inventive course of?

Ok Carbon: I normally like locking in with those that like locking in with me and I believe it’s at all times like that with me. Individuals who I work with, I at all times admire their work. In order that goes from the producers to the options on there. Once I hit up producers, I be like, “Yo, ship me beats.” I had just a few producers come into the studio with me and play beats and I’m like, “Oh that one.” So it was like their relationship with my producers. Generally I write, I slick freestyle [some times]. 

I like being within the studio after I’m making my music as a result of I really feel prefer it…it’s extra genuine for me. I don’t be distracted. I’m simply within the sales space after which I do it like that. Then what else is my inventive course of? That basically is it. I at all times put my movies collectively and stuff.As quickly as I hear my tune, it’s like I understand how I need to do the video. I be like, “Ooh, I may see this. I may see that.” After which I simply make it occur.

AllHipHop: Who influenced you?

Ok Carbon: I might say my household, my dad. He was the primary individual that had me rapping. Then after that, I used to be influenced by gifted feminine artists like Left Eye. She was anyone I actually, actually preferred. Once I noticed, particularly when that film got here out, it made me like Left Eye much more. They rap type was totally different again within the day, however on the finish of the day it was about her type that I fell in love with, her coolness, her complete little factor about herself.