Daysean
Portrait with Heidi Gutman
Portrait with Zachary Maxwell Stertz
I’m different. I don’t want problems with nobody. I’m trying to live a better life than I’m living right now. I’m very creative, different. I might amaze you. I might shock you. I might amuse you.
[Raphy “Doublee R”] He’s helped me… in terms of the rapping. His confidence is up there. He just freestyles out of nowhere. I feel the hype. If they’re close and I’m cool with them, I call them the Holy Homies.
[Holy Studios] It’s the brand; it’s the vision; it’s the imprint. It’s a lifestyle as well - my name being God. But it’s also a contradiction because not everybody’s holy and perfect. And I can understand that, with me being a man named God, especially a black man. Me and my friend came up with [Holy Studios]. Around the beginning of high school...the holy stuff, it stuck with me, and I tried expanding it. Anybody that would be around me...I tell them to “Stay holy.” [Holy Studios] is a collective now, because over the years, it just grew into a multimedia brand.
[In the future] I mean making more music, making better music, gaining the confidence… Make a lot of art. I’m going to make some wavy music videos...Man, I would have a big clothing store, and I might have old arcade machines in there, and then a window where you could see the DJ playing music...a lot of graffiti on the walls. Of course, several locations around the world… I don’t really want to be famous, because I know what comes with fame. But I do want to be known, and I want to get this money.
New York, 2018