Exclusive Interview With Love Wave The Prince Of Hip/Rock

Where are you from?

I’m from Louisville Kentucky, a beautiful city with a lot of flaws, but that’s every big city.

When did you start making music
I started making music about 2 years ago, but i’ve been writing since I was 11 or 12, I had to manifest and be proud of being myself before I could even record a single.

Who inspires you the most?

I’m inspired by many people but the most influential person has been Kurt Cobain, he was before my time. When I was in high school I was into a lot of grunge rock and punk rock just because It always helped me motivate myself, but Kurt was more of an influence to my life than my music, he may have been on drugs but we was a trendsetter especially for 2000’s rock and they way he carried himself aside from taking drugs was on a philosophical level, he didn’t believe in idolizing people to make them seem like a God compared to others, they also bleed blood. He didn’t take people’s foolishness, in 1991 show had a policy that required artists to sing live vocals over pre-recorded back tracks. As you would expect, Kurt Cobain and his bandmates would not let this go without having some fun.

What resulted was, and still is, one of the greatest middle fingers and live performances ever

What got you into making music?

I started on my own, people picked at me a lot growing up and I didn’t have many friends, so I always stayed to myself, I would just write every time I felt like I needed to get away from people it was my way to cope because I wasn’t a bad kid and I had good grades, I just never fit it, always being known as the weird dude or sometimes I’d get called a faggot and it started alot of fights, so I used recording my own poems and writings as a way of getting things off my chest and for it because a passion after awhile I just can’t stop doing it.

Who is your favorite producer?

My favorite producer is Pharrell, one of the greatest producers of this generation, he was the cornerstone for many of the 2000’s hits like “Drop it like it’s hot, Milkshake, and Slave 4 you” not only is he a legendary hiphop producer, but he has produced songs for Alicia Keys, Ariana Grande, Frank Ocean, Beyonce, and Mariah Carey, he is one of the most dynamic and influential people in the music industry. I’d credit him with a lot of the hits of the 2000’s and 2010’s he’s one of a kind.

What is one of your best songs/beats?

So far one of my best songs has to be Upside Down type, it’s a dynamic song that portrays a state of intoxication and the feelings of regret and feeling backstabbed. It was a track I would call abstract and vibe oriented.

Are you signed to a record or label?

I’m not currently signed to a label.

Who would you most likely collaborate with?

I haven’t been open until recently with collaborations, but i’ll say I would collaborate with Rex Orange County or Steve Lacy hands down both very dynamic artist with great energy. I could learn from them and not make something just because it’ll be #1 but it would be an experience to work with some guys who come from different backgrounds.

Who are some artists that you have done shows with?

I have never done a show actually, it’s an experience I’m looking forward to. A part of being a rockstar is putting on awesome and memorable events for those who show support and love.

What’s next for you?

I have goals to be apart of an organization that won’t just help me grow as an artist, but an organization that will help me with my cause for helping our communities become places where people feel like they can get help, I know how it feels to feel like there’s nobody and I always felt like I was the problem, but I wasn’t it was just that my anxiety would tell me that something is 20 times worse than it was and sometimes I just wasn’t understood, people didn’t understand I didn’t love myself and I often wished bad upon myself, people took it for weakness, I didn’t start growing and becoming who I am now until I sat down in a locked room and looked in the mirror for I don’t know how long and I told myself i’m only 19 and I make myself anything, I didn’t have to be that image in the mirror. The plan is to graduate by August with an associates in writing in communications, and start working on a lot of ideas I have as a creator in 2023.

What is your most popular track

One of my favorite songs is one of my most viewed it was one of my first single releases under my artist name Roc Love. Evil Prince gave me a very exciting feeling to rap something word for word especially knowing how far I’ve come with having a flow that was just molded to my own mixed in by many influencing artists. I think everyone gets excited after rapping a song they like word for word. I originally wrote a lot of things for Pop Rock or Punk Rock.

What are some things you have been through in real life?

I have always, ALWAYS struggled with mental health, some people would even tell me to “man up” and those people never knew how it felt to feel like you were important to anyone, to feel like to was just going to always be seen as a joke. I was bullied a lot because I was a chunky kid all throughout elementary and middle school, I would always get made fun of for my weight and I was an interesting dude, while most 12 year olds we’re always in the class joking around, I was this self conscious always worried about how ugly I looked kid passing notes to a blonde girl that I thought was this smart, well rounded, beautiful. I was just so corny always singing and dancing for her, I was bullied for that because I’d ask her out like every month thinking okay I joined the wrestling team, I was getting tons of tackles that football season too, I thought she’d eventually say yes and I was a very persistent kid, so her saying no and a bunch of kids laughing and teasing me would always mess with me the longer I went without a yes. I got to highschool and it was so much worse, I was so much more self conscious over the years losing friends to suicide especially in Louisville where it was starting to happen more and I would hear about some friends I haven’t seen in months overdosing or shooting themselves, these were like guys I would see everyday in football practice and they were actually the nice ones, losing my cousin and every time I saw my uncle growing up, it was hard having to see my uncle in alot of pain and as I got older it came more clear to why he always hugged me so tight when he saw me, it hurt alot, then having to lose my uncle who was a heavy influence in my life, he was always joking and always goofy, but at the same time he was a role model growing up he was the person I looked up to everyone wanted to be around him. When I finally felt like I could let go my aunt and grandpa both got very sick and I got to a point I would go an entire month just not talking to anyone and working out, I felt so sick to my stomach and alot of my issues with my mental state is I told myself it was my fault, I had to train myself to think of their passing as a notebook I reflect on my time with people i’ve lost, and I take advice from people I lost and I move forward. Moving forward is so important.

What’s your biggest accomplishment?

I would say my biggest life accomplishment was defeating my own mental demons during all those times of questioning myself and becoming someone who is mentally strong, not many words really affect me, not many people can get me out of my groove, but to go from someone who nearly killed himself on a school morning and showing up to school bruised up and cut up, blood rolling down my arms and stomach and holes in my clothes, I just felt like I was a lost cause and I should just leave, I was taught by someone that I could express how I feel through a passion and it revolutionized my writing, I started to write about my emotions, I wrote how I actually felt and a lot of teachers started to give me credit for having a dynamic writing style that is emotionally driven and expressive in a way that a lot of people could relate to. A Lot of my music is about my own problems and would be expressed in a Rockstar like fashion.

Links to my first album(Nostalgia Rock)

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