 Hey everybody, thanks for sticking with us when we're over there at the free free street I guess they're the free street bar and grill cavern. So that was a lot of fun. That was a gentleman named Anthony I forgot his last name, but he's a part of the group. He's still playing there But please don't go over there until you watch a little bit more of our show Because we actually have a great hip-hop artist Bliss to Chrome Young guy he's gonna play a couple of songs for us But let's hear one of his first songs now Then we'll sit down talking about what it's like to be a high school student and a rapper as well So bliss to Chrome is gonna take it away. Go for it my friend Because people just like talking at best sense in me now Before I fucking rock it. I used to care, but fuck it. You ain't even this discussion Bitches love their problems public. I don't even want it. If you want it couldn't flaunt it That's why I flex my shit. Not bad. No necklace bitch Not just about presidents and cash in all these checks, but checking all my Grammy to make sure that she said It has a place to rest. I'll be honest. I've been stressed God, please hear my breath. I've been working every night to get my grandkids, right? SF on my back. Yeah, I'ma get it My stock highest fuck that diamond level nut my swimmers can't get touch Unless you're a foreign bitch. Yeah, these US bitches My JDM with tough if I'm gonna keep up, but you all be lame as fuck This rap game turned around. We'll ask I stopped too early You know, I'm squeaky pearly with my aura straight from her creep Shining like a diamond. It's a matter of the timing before I make it big I know you got shit doubts. I turn them to regrets keep my name in your mouth That shit just be free promo you can never get enough For where a fake ass polo to go your LV Duffles, I played my cousin shuffle, you know, I never buckled pressure be my thriving point Everyone's blocking all the noise how you say I'm not the chosen God's been blessing boys since birth that ever since I prayed I'm perfect spit and shit since I was nursing fuck you scared of closing curtains wine and now my heavy Keep it real Ain't no hiding now For my boys, we got to make it now. We got dreams and ambitions They're more than just a mission. Yeah, that's the reason God keeps giving. That's my reason to keep living Oh again. Hello. I always say hello. I'm back Me and Alex, which is the real name of blister chrome. We're chillin. Is that what the young people say nowadays chillin Chillin out. We're chillin like villains I'm not that old. I'm a generation of the beastie boys guys like that from the 80s But anyways, mr. Savage, let's talk a little bit about what's going on with you We heard the song where you hear a second song soon, but Now you're actually still in high school. Is this true? Yeah. Yeah, okay Senior in high school at the casco. Hi, so Casco Bay Do you like it there's pretty hello? I like it a lot Sure, just a great big music scene at the school So is that is that like a we'll delve into a little more different things But I am curious about performing art school kind of in a sense or yeah I mean, I mean it wasn't like made for that, but that it that's kind of become the audience And is that up on the east end? It's it's near Riverton. Okay. Yeah a little out of town that way So do you do at that school? Are you invested in the arts quite a bit? Do you do a lot of things there? I mean Yeah, I mean I do some I Don't think I've ever really performed there, but I've done announcements about my music there. Okay. Yeah So but is that a school that's focused a little more on like painting and doing things? Yeah So what year how old were you I always like to kind of rewind the tape When did you first start rapping? Are we doing other instruments or yeah? I started playing piano when I was like six. Okay, six And then I played piano for a long time then it turned into singing and I sang ever since I was around the same age when I was really little and then um, I was my like like to be creative like without any like boundaries or like Any anybody telling me exactly how to create so I kind of transferred into making my own music And it started with just like songwriting and then as it got older I started like learning how to use the technology in the software and then I'd say about Freshmen to sophomore year of high school. I started putting out my own music And did you start out by really writing a lot of stuff that was very personal to yourself? Yeah, yeah, like like I still do to this day, but I always had like a notebook that I brought with me Right, right. Yeah, that's coming up with things. Yeah, yeah and thoughts and stuff I mean this is an angsty time for everybody in their lives Yeah, because there's a lot of things to figure out and so yeah, I think you're you're you're graduating you're making a move Is that is that what I hear? I'm going to Atlanta. Okay, Atlanta, Georgia. Yeah, have you been there before? This is the first time to check it out. It's gonna be my first time. Yeah, and do you want to pursue music full-time there? Yeah, yeah, that's why I'm moving with my friend Yokai ball. He's on the last Interview that I did here, but he um, he's coming with me. Okay. Okay Are you guys flying out there? You're doing a road trip. How's it go? We're probably gonna fly out there. I was Yeah, that's probably the best idea. I'm probably just yeah, I don't know if road trip road trip and yeah, it's not the same as it was Yeah, it's a good flight. Is that going to be like in the fall or are you thinking of doing that like soon in the summer? It's gonna be early August early August So tell us about the new album that you got coming up in the new songs and things like oh, yeah I doubt that was one of them. I actually like I've like re Re I've changed the date of when the album was gonna come out like four times now because I've remade the album like four times already. So I have like Probably like 45 songs that are just sitting on my computer that I didn't think were like good enough to be Oh, they weren't good enough the album. So I've like remade it a bunch of times. And so like I've I think it's really perfected That's why that performance is kind of rough like I don't even like know the lyrics yet But it's for fun and like it sounded great in there, but I mean you're always working on new stuff Yeah, what's the what is the kind of hip-hop scene in Portland? I mean, I feel like It's it's they've been trying for a long time. Yeah, he's like it's got there yet or needs I mean, it's like it's getting carried by the youth. Obviously. I feel like right now But I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for it to like Become way bigger than it is because it's already I feel like there's a solid foundation right now because At least a lot of people in my grade or my that are in my class of 2023. They like Most of them love rap music. So right it's it's never gone out of style Yeah, and and I mean I really feel like that the technology has changed so much that it was really not something that probably Guys at my age when I was your age could do we didn't really have Our computers were doing like ones and zeros. I got my one of my directors out here He's not in because back in our day We were doing like a little Pong coin back and forth and things and Super Mario brothers was high tech But nowadays, I mean you could do a lesson. So are you doing your own beats a lot too or yeah? Yeah, I produce a lot of my on this new album. I produced about all of them But yokai Apollo that I'm with who I've been making music with he's he started as a producer and he's been like Killing it with producing music. He's like that's like his thing and he also puts out music and he's gotten big numbers recently too So we're kind of like both helping each other produce for each other and Yeah, and I saw a special like a documentary about Kanye West Yeah, and he was producing for a lot of people and they didn't really think he could be that's the front man But it's so needed. It seems like right that guys are really good producer. It's creative and comes up with stuff Yeah, usually when you produce you learn how to engineer and master and like that stuff that you need to be able to Have a good grasp on to be able to put out like decent sounding music And do you use pro tools or that type of thing? I use FL studio, okay? Okay, but I've used pro tools and Ableton I've been all over the place with it But I mainly use FL studios and so just a couple more questions for you And then we'll probably see if you could do one more song for us Like what what do you find that your lyrics are often about are they a lot of times about what's going on in your life or? Just having fun or yeah, I'd say I'd say I Try to make my lyrics as meaningful as possible and I take time on them So like a lot of my lyrics will be either talking about something that's been going on That's going to happen or something that you know People wouldn't know unless they listen to the music and like listen to the lyrics right right yeah, and that at 18 years old It's I mean it's kind of a difficult time, right? Yeah, it's like you got a lot of things and and you ever feel like for guys the guy who works with us a couple of them They're they're your age was this past couple years particularly traumatizing or just difficult or was it kind of just like a weird Because of COVID yeah weird time off or something. I mean honestly like I was like I was shown Easton care Yeah, I was I was in my room making music all day Yeah, I think that a lot of these parents have made it seem like oh man. It was so hard on these kids But I mean I mean when I was your age, I didn't like going to school So I mean I guess if you don't have to it's kind of a better thing You can like see the effects of it socially like yes. Yeah, and do you feel like that's I mean you seem like an outgoing guy Do you feel like that's happening more and more with people your age that they're becoming almost more Autistic in a sense of socially, you know, I mean basically. Yeah, you know, they can't deal with things outside of their phone I mean people have definitely showed that yeah, I mean I'd say people are like more introverted introverted Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, you know, I mean it's basically the idea that it's like right now They're not able to Socially interact with people on on that same level, but do you feel like that's something that really got lost in that couple of Years or I mean when it's like When it's a thing that happened to a massive amount of people it almost becomes like a new norm So it's easy. It's easy for people to kind of See that it's just kind of writing on the wall in a way. Yeah, it's kind of like everyone has I mean we you got to deal with it. Everyone dealt with it. So it's like Everyone's kind of in the same boat in the same boat So what's the next saw that you're gonna do for us? Is that the one that was on your last album or on that that one right there's unreleased that one was This one I'm doing is called nip nip see hustles like nip see hustle named after a guy that's inspired me, but like It probably came out like a year a year ago And so like I'm gonna try and remember how it goes. Yeah. Yeah, I think you'll do okay. Yeah, but nip see hustle I mean he was died not so long ago I know that was a big big thing, but he did a lot for the community and was well Like I'm I just inspired by his work ethic. Yeah, right. That was the thing. Well We'll get you up there. Are we gonna we got I think a one or two minutes to talk a little bit I'm my director saying we got another couple minutes. Talk to the audience out there What is there anything else that you wanted to kind of talk about? We're a pretty loose show here loose show. Oh, yeah, I mean I Don't know I'd say I got a music video coming out. Okay. Yeah this Wednesday nice. Yeah Shot usually I have a Joe mushroom who's here with us last but he's he's in mass right now and he hasn't been around so me and yokai shot it and we edited it took like two weeks, but We put a lot of work into it and I just also want to say like I made a I had to make When I changed my name it used to be Zuko kick ass when I changed it from that to bliss to chroma on Distribution platforms you have to make whole new accounts and whole new platforms for everything and like I've like grown an insane rate like super fast on the platforms and I've been like super grateful for that and I a Little birdie in the booth told me that you kind of switched your style to more melodic a little bit Is that something that's been going on like I've been experimenting because I don't think there's much longevity in an artist that can only do one thing so like I've been trying to reach a broader audience With going more melodic, but also keeping more boom-bap style. So my album that's coming out on Sunday I'm like I've merged boom-bap and melodic into one album And if we have a second before because I'm always the guy who wants to know what is boom-bap is that that's a so That's more you're saying that's more rhythmic or something than melodic. I mean melodic. I mean they're both rhythmic I'd say boom-bap It's more about the style and the beat style and the rhythm style There's more it's more drum. I mean it's more drum focused. It's more it's a more classic sound classic rap sound But a lot it can be you can get in the R&B a little bit And it's more experimental. I mean that's where the new genres come from but like I still love boom-bap Well, I'm looking forward to hear another song from you I know we're getting ready to I think do a commercial and then we'll set you up to do another song and See how that goes. Yeah, so thanks a lot Alex. I appreciate it We'll be right back guys. Thanks So I don't want me a Jane look at my passing and brought me some shame I was dead. He ain't needing it. Okay. What's wrong side? We sick in the rain. You know my dream started itching to pray I never imagine I make it this far not where I want to be working it hard Child to God deserving applause trying to recoup from getting these scars taking my chances I pray to the stars Shout out my girl got a beautiful heart leave in the legacy making a mark Come from the ace. I don't know me at all. How you my friend and you want me to fall always support when you needed a car Mr. Pulaski. I'm talking about job holding the block. Yeah, I guess kind of hard Way too that far homies even money don't know where to start all the money. I can look at the charts Yeah, this Really like Yo Kai Joe