What’s your stage name and where are you from?
11Piem
What’s the story behind your stage name?
P and M come from my name’s initials.I added 11 as a symbolic number and combined refers to the last hour of the day before the new one begins.I am the one bringing the new day with my music and the messages I wanna convey
Describe your musical journey in three sentences.
Started listening to 90’s boom bap since my early teens.Then wrote a few lyrics in my native tongue(Greek).After living in UK for a while,I started rapping in English and took the rap game seriously
Share an interesting experience you had while creating your latest track.
Took a dope sample from a Bulgarian song then coproduced with my producer friend Gus.Gonna be on my next project
What message do you want to convey through your music?
I wanna share my life experiences,internal struggles with hopes of reaching people’s hearts and elevate their minds and consciousness
Tell us about a challenge you faced during production and how you overcame it.
The beat for lyrical assassin had a few missing stems and the guy who sold it to me became hard to reach after I paid him.That took my album a few steps back but in the end we sorted it out with the help of my sound engineer at the studio and with further discussions with the producer of the beat
If you could collaborate with any artist, who would it be and why?
I would love to collaborate with Eminem,he has been a great influence on me
Where do you see your music taking you in the next year?
I wanna open up for major artists representing the hip hop culture worldwide
What’s the next big step for you as an artist?
Release my second album and do more shows
Where can we hear/watch your most recent work?
