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Incredible Reeq

Incredible Reeq is an upcoming artist coming
out of Helltown (South Hayward, CA). He is
currently signed to Sovereign Music LLC, and
has some releases you can expect.

Interview by @Europeanlan

ABM: What is your Rap name? Reg: Incredible Reeq ABM: Tell us the
story behind your hip-hop name? Reeq; I went thru a couple different

names, In my begir

ig years of writing, I first came up with the name
"Droopy" cuz he was one of my favorite characters.J was around 14 yr

old, When I was 16 I decided to change my name to "Mister "for my
last name abbreviated,..finally one day im standing in a grocery store,

dollar tree or something,.but honestly, ive always been known to smoke

alot of cannabis and smell like

..80 this particular day im in line and the
person turned to me and said "man you REQ" at
light bulb went off, everything about it made since. My name is Ri
always smell of t
fended by the oder.

exact moment a
I

¢ and I recall correctly the person in the store was of

hat made it feel more right, I get off on standing out
from a crowd.whether or not people perceive the situation necessary...the
name INCREDIBLE
sex game was just that!! ‘Then afier putting thought into it.I realized Im

incredible in everything I do, from my different styles, to my unique music
gift. Anybody can be "Dope
considered "INCREDIBI
that led to the decision of be

was added after multiple times of being told my

or "Amazing”, but not everyone can be

D ABM: Has anything happened in your life
ming a musician? Reeq; It started off with
my mom putting me in_ pageants as a kid doing Michael Jackson. But just
being on stage and performing is what grew on me the most. And win-
ning first place in these pageants gave me the sense of comfortability in
performing for people and made it something I love to do. ABM: How
did you get your start in the hip hop scene? Req: Growing up, I noticed
how my brother was always jotting things down on a paper and wouldn't
share with me what he was doing, So I snuc!
What he was writing and he was writing music. And I u

in his room one day to read
ed his first bar to

write my own rap. That made me realize that I had a gift for writing
music and I wanted to make it something I'm good at doing: As you can
tell... ABM: Where are you from, and what was it like growing up there?

(<4 if
Reeq: I'm from South Hayward, Ca. And from what we call "Helltown". i do mMuSIC for

It was definitely a place of poverty and struggle. I grew up on Belvedere

Ct and it was a rough neighborhood with drugs and corrupt police. By | t |. t t
the time I was 13, I was hustling on Forselles Way. As well as other kids peop € to relate to
and teenagers I grew up with did. When you grow up in a single parent

hose (cause miy mama pasted away when I was 8) and yéa see yout In more ways { I 1en
parent struggle to raise you on one paycheck , and you surrounded by 99
one. Incredible Reeq

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