What’s your stage name and where are you from?
MRKBH and I’m from the small midwestern college town of Muncie, Indiana.
What’s the story behind your stage name?
MRKBH can mean muraqabah (“watcher” in Arabic) or merkabah (“chariot” in Hebrew). MRKBH is also an acronym for a prayer “may rivals kneel before him”.
Describe your musical journey in three sentences.
Stage One: Observer of the Culture. Stage Two: Participant in the Craft. Stage Three: Advocate for the Art.
Share an interesting experience you had while creating your latest track.
The last track I actually created is unreleased. It was recorded over a beat I made years ago. I recently had a burst of creative energy and wrote/recorded it. It’s called “IDKY”. I also did a makeshift/bootleg video of it in the Ghost Kitchen, my home studio. It came out of nowhere, as music and creativity sometimes does.
What message do you want to convey through your music?
I wish to convey the importance of originality and creativity. I think a lot of people are brainwashed to think they have to create within a certain set of expectations based on their genre, their location, or even their race. A lot of guys that have this viewpoint usually don’t have the ability to zoom out to a bird’s-eye view and realize the world is a big place and the mind’s imagination is vast. Why limit yourself?
Tell us about a challenge you faced during production and how you overcame it.
Technical difficulties, losing contact with collaborators, personal disagreements. Sometimes the ego of an artist doesn’t match their accomplishments. They confuse confidence and arrogance. I feel you are entitled to be a bit arrogant if you earned it, but that shouldn’t be your launching pad. It reeks of insecurity.
If you could collaborate with any artist, who would it be and why?
There are several on that list: Peter Tosh. Guru of Gang Starr. Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Notice they all have something in common.
Where do you see your music taking you in the next year?
I plan to drop a couple/few more releases. Scripts Vol. 2, Righteous Gemstones Part 2, a self-produced MRKBH EP.
What’s the next big step for you as an artist?
Taking the stage again. Reaching a larger audience and bigger platforms.
Where can we hear/watch your most recent work?
www.MRKBH.world
