[Dj Steel] Sirius XM the Heat, Dj Steel
Warm up live, and I am here with the special guest for the day- RAJITHEONE
[RAJITHEONE] What’s poppin’?
[Dj Steel] Raji, everything is poppin’ man. You, you sir. Thank you for being here
[RAJITHEONE] Man, thank you for having me
[Dj Steel] Ayy man, it’s-it’s always a pleasure. Now listen, I want to jump right into it
[RAJITHEONE] Okay
[Dj Steel] Alright, ’cause, you just jumped on my radar
[RAJITHEONE] Word
[Dj Steel] Now from what I’m hearing from you, the songs that I’ve heard, I did my research. Super dope man. You a singer—
[RAJITHEONE] Yeah
[Dj Steel] Song writer—
[RAJITHEONE] Yeah
[Dj Steel] And a rapper—
[RAJITHEONE] Bro you did your research for real
[Dj Steel] Yeah, well that’s just, that’s just the tip of the ice burg, we just starting. So tell me man, where— Now I, I, I also read that you are from Chicago
[RAJITHEONE] Yeah
[Dj Steel] That’s your hometown
[RAJITHEONE] Yes, yes
[Dj Steel] But you, you shouted out the 612
[RAJITHEONE] You got to
[Dj Steel] Is, is that your home?
[RAJITHEONE] Uh, it was
[Dj Steel] Okay
[RAJITHEONE] Uh, we moved to Minnisota when I was a teenager, you know. More oppurtunities and resources to raise a family
[Dj Steel] Okay, more peaceful?
[RAJITHEONE] It was worth it for sure
[Dj Steel] Alright that’s dope, super dope. So, we from Chicago but we rep Minnesota as well
[RAJITHEONE] Meen-E-sota
[Dj Steel] Mina-Mina-Mina-Minasota. I always mess that up
[RAJITHEONE] No, you said it right but I was mocking you low key
[Dj Steel] Mina-Minasota
[RAJITHEONE] Meen-ah-sota
[Dj Steel] Okay, dope. Now, indie, signed? What’s your situation?
[RAJITHEONE] Indie… indie, for sure
[Dj Steel] Okay
[RAJITHEONE] Um, I was the guy who really… I’m the SoundCloud artist that everybody talks bad about
[Dj Steel] You know, why do people do that? What’s wrong with being a SoundCloud artist?
[RAJITHEONE] Everyone, everyone’s a critic so I don’t, I don’t take it personally
[Dj Steel] Yeah
[RAJITHEONE] ‘Cause, uh, SoundCloud helped pop my career off. I use SoundCloud to track my data an*lytics, and figure out my market, ’cause I was working. You know, it’s a music business
[Dj Steel] That’s a business man, data-data an*lytics. I can dig that
[RAJITHEONE] Yeah, but then it went viral on YouTube and Facebook on it’s own. Like I didn’t even upload it on those two platforms. Fans did it. But they named it, uh, “Voicemails” by Bryson Tiller and Drake. So back then, which was last… April, there was a huge anticipation for Drake and Bryson to do a collaboration
[Dj Steel] Okay
[RAJITHEONE] I was even anticipating it. But when the fan or whoever it was uploaded my record and titled it “Voicemails” featuring Bryson Tiller and Drake all the fans was like, ooh, we ’bout to listen. And they listened… but it was me. And I didn’t know this until like a week in when I’m already at like a couple million streams on YouTube, like whoa
[Dj Steel] I saw that… I saw that
[RAJITHEONE] So I was like hold on let me look at this 15,000 comments. See what they got to say. And what I realized was regardless of who they thought it was, it was a hot record
[Dj Steel] That’s dope
[RAJITHEONE] So #WHITEGIRLVOICE, from there, you know, it popped. It popped on Facebook again, another 10,000 comments I’m reading ’em. Just doing my research on myself. And then um, made that move to on, um, put it on 31 platforms via TuneCore
[Dj Steel] Okay
[RAJITHEONE] Which put it on Spotify
[Dj Steel] Okay
[RAJITHEONE] Spotify, it went viral again
[Dj Steel] You gotta teach me an*lytics
[RAJITHEONE] You know I’m still learning, but—
[Dj Steel] That’s the key man
[RAJITHEONE] I took a leap of faith you know?
[Dj Steel] Yeah
[RAJITHEONE] Did it with my eyes closed, believed in myself, and… the fans, you know, they don’t lie. And nor does numbers, so…
[Dj Steel] Okay, well listen we gonna to get into something. We got RAJITHEONE in the building. It’s the warm up live man, Sirius XM the Heat, Dj Steel