Features : South Florida hip hop artist S.A. Vents combines old and new school on ‘Script’

Since he started writing and recording his own music, South Florida hip hop artist and producer S.A. Vents has had to overcome at least two big obstacles: a global pandemic that put a halt to his live performances, and the murder last year of an engineer who had mentored Vents and helped refine his sound.

The latter led Vents to reinvent his sound from his home studio in 2023 and the Broward County native has since released four singles, including his most recent effort “Script.”

The track’s vintage flavor is evident from the first notes, but this isn’t an old-school song – not with Vents priding himself on his versatility.

“If I release a project, it’s going to have a mixture,” he says. “My music goes from having an old school boom bap type sound with maybe some actual bass lines and it will transition into an 808 heavy autotune type of sound that’s more new school. Some of my songs will have a boom bap beat and then I’ll also have a little bit of autotune on there to make it sound more modern. I try to keep my content real world. I want my music to remain timeless but I do take some elements from the current sound.”

Vents’ songs are filled with witty lines, metaphors and deeper meanings and “Script” is no different. It’s a song about a particular addiction for Vents, but not one from a drugstore.

I got your script, Let me fill you up, Once a day we gon’ have to bump it up, he repeats in the lyrics.

“It’s a girl who is my addiction,” Vents says. “The girl that I’m talking about, we would have a lot of wild times and crazy times, do a lot of drinking and smoking and things like that. When I made the song it just flowed naturally because at that time I was literally addicted to that feeling of being with her and the experiences we had.”

Most of Vents’ releases deal with his own life experiences, from relationships to getting in trouble in his younger years to losing friends and more. He uses songwriting as a living journal, he says.

Vents was already writing poetry and rhymes by the time he was eight, and he began writing and recording his own music in2 015 after briefly relocating to Atlanta.

“I was already producing and I would rap on my own beats, it was something I enjoyed doing,” he says. “Once I left South Florida and moved to Atlanta I was in a new place so I didn’t really have anything going on and I was kind of lonely. I actually found comfort in making more music at that point and that’s when I really fell in love with it.”

He moved back to South Florida and the Miami music scene and began working as an engineer in various studios, then started collaborating in 2019 with the engineer who mentored him before passing away.

“I took those elements and that knowledge that he gave me and I applied that to my own sound and developed it from there,” he says. “From 2019 to 2022 is when I really got better and developed the sound and 2023 is when I put it to work in my own home studio.”

He released three other tracks this year, “Mia,” “1of1,” and “Streets,” before dropping “Script” at the end of August. The four songs have combined for 150,000 streams on Spotify alone, and Vents says he’s finally getting the traction he’s been after.

“It’s time for me to get back out there and start doing small shows and open mics and also collaborate with other artists and get my name out there,” he says.

Vents is releasing a full project in the first half of 2024; it’ll contain up to 11 songs and he plans to release a couple singles beforehand. That project includes some songs he did with his late engineer. An official music video for “Script” is also in the works.

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