Features : Live in the moment with Spendits new single Hold Up off his first EP Check

Sometimes life just slides on by at an unfathomable pace, something that Buffalo based rapper Spendit incorporated that into his single “Hold Up” off his first EP titled Check.

“The meaning of ‘Hold Up’ basically describes my life,” said Spendit, who grew up on the lower west side of Buffalo. “I’m always looking to make some money, you know? So it was like, what’s the next best thing or how can I make some more money? That’s where it comes from: life moving too fast. I feel like life really do move too fast, and if you let the opportunity slip, you might be losing out on some money.”

Spendit was not always a musician, and was far more focused on playing basketball when he was young. His brother Akaey was a musician, but he didn’t think it was for him before he even really gave it a chance. He didn’t pick up music until the end of middle school going into high school

Akaey was always into music, making beats, and since their rooms were so close Spendit would hear it all day. He rejected the love of music early on because of that, but eventually it started to kick in his head. He joked that it was forced on him to the point where he could easily just start rapping on his beats.

“I could just flow on it,” Spendit said. “I can’t even say it’s like a hidden talent. I feel like I just never tried, and when I did try, boom, it was that.”

Spendit added, “I started to accept that I might be good at music. I started free-styling but I wasn’t really recording anything. From then, that’s when I started getting told I might need to actually write something down and go to the studio, or just record in the studio and see what comes up.”

With “Hold Up”, Spendit received a beat from his brother Akaey. Losart is Spendit’s producer, and he said the three of them are the “posse” creating tunes.

Spendit wrote to the beat three different times. His first time he felt the beat was too good for what he wrote, scratched it out, and went for it again. This second try wasn’t what he wanted either, and the trial and error continued.

“I went back to ‘Hold Up’ again, I finally finished it, and I polished it,” Spendit said. “Those other songs are in the waiting room, man. There’s no way I’m just gonna throw them in the garbage. The songs were good, they just didn’t hit the same. So yeah, I’m going to release them sooner and later but I’ll have to send them to Losart to make beats around it.”

Spendit grew up listening to the likes of 2Pac, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and finally Drake later as he got older. While he has his own original style, he was also heavily influenced by his musical heroes.

“They played a huge role in how I rap now,” Spendit said.

The new EP, Check, didn’t take very long to put together although he sat on it for a year because he was coming to the realization of what he really wanted to do. He knew if he released it, the door was open and this was his life.

“My music is like live in the moment, man,” Spendit explained. “You know, life is moving fast. If you’re always thinking about the future, or the past, life is just going to slip right past by you. That’s how fast life goes on. I feel like I’m in the moment. Tomorrow’s no guarantee. You can’t change the past so really live in the moment and don’t take nothing for granted.”

Spendit is hard at work, writing, performing live in the upstate New York and Pennsylvania area, and by the beginning of next year he plans to have another EP out. He also plans to shoot more music videos.

“I want more videos so they can really match the songs,” said Spendit. “I want my fans to really see who Spendit is. I just got here.”

He added, “I don’t think there’s anyone better who just started. I don’t think there’s anyone hungrier. I will never release anything I wouldn’t listen myself, anything that’s not quality. They’ll always get 100% from me. Nothing less.”

Spendit’s music can be found on all major platforms.

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