YOUNG BYRD

Young Byrd—Time to Fly

It took a moment, but the South did rise and take its shine on the world rap stage.

Not that there weren’t artists from the South all along, but in today’s rap game, the South is dominating and doesn’t look like it will be pulling back anytime soon.

Enter Young Byrd, on Silverback Records, the latest rap sensation from Dallas, Texas.

“I rep the South,” said Young Byrd. “But I mostly make people feel what’s going on in the South by just being real and doing what I do, which is doing me.”

Young Byrd was introduced to the game at the age of 12 by his older brother, who moved past the game to become a family man.

And since the rest of Byrd’s family gave him supreme confidence, Young Byrd will do well mostly because he believes that he can.

“I was always good at everything I ever tried. My mama told me that I was good, so I believed it and it just became a way of life for me—being good at what I do.

“The rap thing is what I was best at and the best part is that I enjoy doing it.”

Enjoying something that can get you paid means that you get to do what you love and make a living out of it. That wasn’t new to Young Byrd, who came to the attention of Dallas’ Silverback Records.

The match was rhythmic—like beats and rhymes.

According to D. Morgan from Silverback Records, “Our goal is to be a fully functional record label, which means that we may expand to include a Justin Beiber or a Brittany Spears, or even a Lady Gaga, but Rap and R&B is our core and we will keep doing that well.

“Young Byrd is a great artist to represent Silverback and we plan to help him fly so that he can lead the other artists to success.”

Young Byrd has the mentality that Silverback was looking for. He’s a rap artist from Dallas, but he’s focused on more than Texas and much more than Southern rap music. He can reach people by being real.

“People who aren’t from where you’re from like your style when they know, when they can feel that you are being real. Everything that I write about is my real lifestyle. I don’t have to add anything to make it more than what it is. I’ve seen it or I’ve done it, or it has gone down around me. I don’t have to write in third person, because I write what I know.”

West Coast rap veteran DJ Quik once said that every city is “Just Like Compton,” meaning that every hood has things that any person who grew up in any hood can relate to.

“The average hood life is what I rhyme about. I talk about growing up doing what young dudes do, because I’ve been growing up in and around rap music, since I started at 12.”

After being in and around rap music for a while, the process of making music is simple for Young Byrd. And Byrd likes making it happen with T-Weezy, a producer who understands his style.

The first single from Young Byrd is “How Ya Do Dat?” Byrd says he was thinking of a woman dancing and doing things that women do and it made him wonder how she was able to do it, so he wrote a song about it.

Another single is called “Loaded But Rollin,” which is an adventure in the club, sipping on a drink and having fun wilding out.

A favorite for Young Byrd is “When A Nigga Broke,” featuring Willie C.

“Everybody can relate to this one, because we’ve all been broke at some point in our lives.”

Young Byrd clearly knows where he is going and where he came from, even if he has no idea where his name came from. He has been carrying his name so long, he can’t remember where it came from.

“My mama and everybody else called me Young Byrd all my life. I don’t know where it came from. Maybe because I was skinny and I was known for having a big head.”

Where the name came from isn’t as important as where Young Byrd is going with it. At age 12, he left the nest of comfort in being anonymous by taking on a rap career that has propelled him into a game that is as wide open as the clear blue skies are for an eagle.  And like an eagle, this Young Byrd plans to spread his wings and soar.

Right to the top of the rap game.