HipHopWired bought the prospect to talk solely with YouTube star Bounty Tank, who’s making ready to launch his new album Kick Door College.
The world of actuality tv has produced fairly a number of notable stars, and with that in thoughts, it’s not arduous to see how Bounty Tank is the subsequent one up in that development of fame. The Cleveland, Ohio native is the star of his personal YouTube collection (just lately added to Tubi) which is in its sixth season and has over 780,000 subscribers together with paid members along with a social media following of over 1 million subscribers. For Bounty Tank aka Franklin Frazier, changing into a bounty hunter was a pivot after attaining a nursing diploma from Hampton College which he attended on a soccer scholarship. His aim to turn into a U.S. Marshal was placed on maintain attributable to hiring freezes, which led him to the world of bounty looking.
A need to serve his neighborhood and lead with understanding is on the coronary heart of Bounty Tank’s mission, and that vitality has led him to dive additional into creating music, which is one other ardour of his. Starting in 2019, Bounty Tank began to create and launch singles, resulting in his first album Skeletons being launched in 2021. On the verge of his upcoming album, Kick Door College, HipHopWired bought the prospect to speak extensively with him about his music and his profession.
HipHopWired: Along with your pivot into moving into rap, what was the inspiration for that?
Bounty Tank: Truthfully, what planted the seed was – “I bought my very own present, so why pay somebody or pay any person else for music on the present, after I can do my very own?” I’ve at all times had a ardour for music, so it simply made sense.
HipHopWired: So with that – if you rhyme, what’s the vitality that you just wish to evoke? Each MC just about has their very own vitality that they wish to give off to their followers like for you? How would you outline that?
Bounty Tank: I’ve vitality simply telling tales about what’s happening in my life. I’m an everyday man. So regardless of the vibe is, or the story of the lyrics that I’m speaking about, I identical to to offer. I’ve quite a lot of laid-back stuff. I bought some songs the place I’m simply amped up. I imply, it simply will depend on the vibe of the music. So I feel I’m naturally only a laid-back, form of clean sort of rapper.
HipHopWired: With the album popping out, are we going to get that combination?
Bounty Tank: The album is known as Kick Door College, however the subsequent single popping out, “Mr. Kick Door” is pure vitality – I’m speaking about “Okay, I would like my cash”, (laughs) and it’s full vitality. It’ll be a mix. There’ll be some clean songs on there too.
HipHopWired: Pivoting again to the present – how’s the suggestions been from followers who’ve caught with you beginning the present, seeing you evolve into this artist, along with being within the bounty hunter career, how’s that suggestions been?
Bounty Tank: Everyone’s excited. Everybody’s blissful to be again. I’ve been gone for six months filming. So everybody’s excited man, they’re loving it. I imply, they like the thrill that the present brings, they just like the music, and the vitality coming with it. So yeah, it’s suggestions. It’s loopy.
HipHopWired: One factor that I bought from simply getting the prospect to look at a few of the present -the one factor that stands forth is you just about being that presence of a guiding gentle. You’re doing it in a approach that most individuals who’ve their very own preconceptions of being a bounty hunter have them shattered. That’s wonderful to see. Is it difficult at occasions to maintain that constant?
Bounty Tank: No, that’s simply embedded in me. On the core, I identical to to assist individuals so it’s not arduous. You already know, the those that obtain it, they’ll get it and the those that don’t obtain it, they simply don’t get it. However I’ve at all times had that door open and lane open. In order that’s straightforward for me as a result of that’s simply it’s me, it’s my core.
HipHopWired: And also you’ve gotten some nice suggestions already from like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre supplying you with a shout-out. Has there been anyone else, you understand, from the rap world that’s been supplying you with the inexperienced gentle, like, “maintain going”?
Bounty Tank: It’s lots of people that watch the present, man…Justina Valentine. she rocks with the present, man. Nick Cannon. There’s a ton of individuals. I used to be speaking to DJ Drama a few months in the past, he was on tour and he was watching the present, man. So it’s lots of people tapped in.
HipHopWired: So, what are your go-to songs, apart out of your music, what are your go-to Hip-Hop tracks? One thing like, “I must get my day began or possibly I wish to wind down a little bit bit?”
Bounty Tank: Man, it will depend on the vibe, what I’m doing. If I’m on some therapeutic, making an attempt to sit back and get my thoughts proper, I’m going to hearken to some J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar…it will depend on the vibe and actually what I’ve happening to get my day began. Simply to get pumped up, man, I would throw some Lil Wayne. The Carter.
