Features : Rapper and Singer Buda Takes His Own Route with His Music Career

Gabby Cast, Publicist November 19, 2022
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​Rapper and singer Buda takes his own route with his music career, combining his roots as an independent artist with his business smarts—and calculating every move within his sound, but not committing to a genre nor a music trend.

Based in Maryland, just outside of D.C., Buda Started his career free-styling in school, which led to making music for fun with friends, searching instrumentals on YouTube to rap over, and by 2015 was writing songs daily in the studio—working with trial and error and different genre styles from electro-pop, hip-hop, and trap.

I was free-styling in the hallway, but then 30, 40 people told me I should rap and that was the summer of 10th grade,” says who was inspired by Lil’ Wayne and Black Eyed Peas in his youth and his current sound influenced by Chief Keef. But combining his business goals with his creativity was always his real goal.  “I was already focused on the entrepreneur stuff cause I always wanted to be rich. But in the meantime, I was writing music.”

Tracks like “Blue Face” have a subtle ‘90s L.A. hip-hop beat, while “Love and Ashes” includes an acoustic guitar intro with ambient beats that drop into trap sound singing about fighting demons, horn instrumentals on “King” with verses talking about his successes

But Buda doesn’t get emotionally attached to any of his tracks—writing at least 5 songs a week, and averaging 20 songs a month.

“I probably do more than five. I have to put my mindset into a work ethic. Kind of like Floyd Mayweather, it's like you do it three times a day: you work in the morning, you do it in the afternoon, do it at night, and in the middle,” explains Buda. “Those are the ones that I write and then record, the big five that I know that need to get done.”

Right now his goal is to reach out to various audiences with his use of diverse genres while having his music heavily promoted while staying independent as an artist, looking to individualize himself in the hip-hop game and, in his words, “always striving for elevation.”

Be sure to connect with Buda on Instagram at the link below.

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