Today we’d like to introduce you to Khalil Walker.
Khalil, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’ve been creating music since I was ten years old. I have influenced a lot of Dallas artist by making a new genre of music. I love to experiment and have true passion for music. My parents raised me on all types of music so that’s why I have such a unique sound. I like to skateboard and that’s where a lot of my punk rock influence comes from. I use to play electric guitar at my church but stopped to make beats. When I was 17 years old, I use to sell beats $80 an instrumental and had everyone in high school messing with my beats. I use to go to town view magnet center but got kicked out my Jr year and got my high school diploma at Bryan Adams. After that I went to community college but stop attending because I started traveling trying to get my music out there. After a rough time, I decided to join the military and that’s where I found out I would be doing music rest of my life.
On my first day of arriving at my duty station I was told I was going to Iraq. I have actual beats and songs I produced and made in Iraq. Even when my life was in danger, I still made time for my passion. I sat in a tank on duty making beats and songs. When I came back from Iraq, I had pissed hot for marijuana. We had a long break but After that deployment that’s the only thing that help me cope. They tried to give me a felony and ruin my life but then they found out I used marijuana to cope with all the loses that I experience when I went to Iraq. They diagnosed me with PTSD anxiety insomnia everything you can think of. I’m a disabled Iraq combat veteran at 21 years old. I knew it would be hard to get a job or do anything in society with how bad my mental state is so I dedicated myself fully to my music which gives me peace. Every rapper in Dallas says the same violent things in my music I talk about deep things like the universe, vibrations, love, outer space. My music use to be an expression of how I’m feeling so when I produce the beat and make the lyrics you can feel my exact emotion. After being honorably discharged from the army I couldn’t get no job but the only thing that kept my mind chill was my passion for music.
I started working with a videographer name chuckysinatra films who later was on the news and was put in death row for capital murder. I think two gunman with ak47 tried to rob him and he killed them. I am an Iraq combat vet so it’s just hard. I want nothing but peace and just find a good solid team but it’s so hard in Dallas. I later got another videographer who went to the penitentiary for two years and he just got out. I have never been in trouble with the law not once and I just want to spread my music and make people expand what they listen to. After I got out the military is when I started working hard non stop on music and production. I made a new wave in Dallas where I have bunch of clone rappers who wait for me to lay out the new style. My first songs when I was young was about drug addiction. I also shot a music video that I did in Kuwait while I was deployed. I have been on college kid page and is a big part to the Dallas music scene.
I’m the Travis Scott of Dallas Texas. I have a Jamaican rasta album coming out just for relaxing to. My “vibing” album is dropping this month which is a punk rock skate album. I hope to influence the youth to expand and be them fully. I am me fully and that’s why my music sounds the way it does. Everyone uses type beats or want to sound like they favorite rapper when they could have been original. I have songs with huge producers from la “Brent Rambo. I also have sold lots of merchandise I’ve sent shirts all over the world to different countries and everyone supports me. I have a website where I sell merchandise and show music. I like to chill in nature at the lake so most my music videos are chill at the lake. I hope to do positive things and be a great inspiration to Dallas. I still do play guitar and I also do everything. I make my own beats my own lyrics mix my own music and I bought my own 4K had canon camera where I shoot my own music videos. I am the most talented and hardest working artist in Dallas. I am a disabled combat veteran who is damaging the music scene right now.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I struggled since I was ten years old. I’ve tried everything beats traveling shows. My passion for music is so strong I just always make music but when I was in the military i struggled. I was so traumatized by the deployment I started experimenting with drugs and letting depression take over. My music often sounded like a cry for help. I started trying to make music sober and found out I make less music. All 2020 I’ve been sober and making music and it’s hard. When I’m on drugs it’s easier to create unique sounds. I would use drugs to make my imagination reality so people could understand how I feel but threw music. I struggled after my videographer got sent to death row. I just been trying to find positive people to surround myself with who do music. And my mental health sometimes comes and makes it hard I have very bad PTSD from Iraq and depression gets bad to.
Please tell us about your music.
I’m known for making unique sounds never heard and shooting cool visuals. I’m the only one in Dallas who make trippy experimental beats. I am most proud of being so close to getting monetized on YouTube and how I sold out on merchandise in a week. I’m restocking on merch. What sets me apart from others is everything I do. I’m literally me and everyone stays stealing my sounds and flow. From the crazy way I dress to the weird way I rap. Nobody in Dallas has stepped out as far as I have on music. I would look at myself like a kid cudi. People love to watch my YouTube videos and I do a little blogging. Everyone loves me because every time I make a song, they never know what to expect. I’ll drop a techno song then drop a hippy rock song after but still make it sound like me. I know so many influencers and I’m friends with literally the whole Dallas skateboard community. I know all the pro skaters and I know everyone in deep ellum bar owners and all. And I know everyone at the pointe skate shop in downtown I’m always there.
Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
I am really hardworking and never stop posting. People know I have a certain quality to my work. It’s underground but gritty just like Dallas likes it. I don’t go off anyone else’s work. I try to think of music as if there was no music at all before created and I’m making the first sounds ever. I have been posting and doing this since I was a kid, you’ll find my work everywhere on all platforms. Originality is definitely a characteristic that is important to my success because that’s what makes me different from the whole Dallas. I try to combine genres. I also work with a lot of Dallas artist I work with cartoonist to producers to dancers.
Contact Info:
- Website: Khalilwalkerkhalil.wixsite.com/website
- Instagram: Instagram.com/kush_lasagna/
- Facebook: Facebook.com/lilyoshiimitsu
- Twitter: Twitter.com/kush_lasagna
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