Talent and success at a young age can be a blessing and a curse. It’s easy for the age of a young artist to outshine the actual reason they’ve gotten where they’re at. The music. Texas is breeding some of today’s biggest artists and each area holds a special sound. In Austin there’s a 15-year old producer/rapper who is making his name ring bells. Wiardon is that talent, he isn’t your ordinary rapper either. The high caliber ability he has behind the boards and on the mic is unbelievable. He’s produced for Lucki multiple times and many more well-versed artists. The challenges he’s surpassed and demons he’s fought make him wise beyond his years. His age does not live up to the experiences he has endured. We talked about the ups and downs in his life, his background in music, and much more below.
At the age of 12 is when Wiardon started making beats. He started on GarageBand and moved from Logic, to Fruity Loops, to now his current preference Ableton. “I sample a lot of Aaliyah and jazz. I rarely go to the studio. I just be doing everything in my room. I recorded all of Foxhole Prayer and the album in my room. Until my last birthday I had been making my beats on my mom’s computer.” He’s collaborated with a bunch of noteworthy names on beats. “Laron, Revenxnt, Kill, Grimm Doza”, to name a few. “I really just started making music and connected with mad people”. His double-sided collaboration tape with Revenxnt, “False Klaims” just dropped. A few of his many placements are “Lucki, CJ Fly, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Lerado, Flee, and Grimm Doza.”
He just recently started to pick up rapping seriously. “I wasn’t thinking I want to be a rapper or nothing. Just as I started making beats for these rappers I’d always freestyle to them. I’ve always been able to rap, just never thought about recording it. In order for me to really feel a beat I have to be able to rap on it myself.”
He takes inspiration from all angles of life. Especially music and movies. “I really listen to so much music.” Some of his favorite projects and artists consist of, “Chief Keef – Almighty So, Retch – Polo Sporting Goods, 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Trying, Jill Scott, Marvin Gaye, and Roc Marciano.” He then listed off a number of his favorite movies that influence him. “Paid In Full, Godfather 1 & 2. I don’t fuck with the 3rd one. Swordfish is a good one. Clockwork Orange. Reservoir Dogs. I fuck with the Tarantino shit when he’s not over doing it. Menace 2 Society. I just like a lot of classics.”
We started speaking about his most recent project “Foxhole Prayer”, a remarkable 7-track EP. This is the story behind it’s creation:
“I got sent out to rehab May 7th earlier this year. I wrote a whole notebook full of shit, some shit on the album I wrote too while I was there. I just wrote all the time, there’s nothing really to do there besides playing basketball. I filled up the whole notebook I was really thinking that I want to rap. Kids in there were hyping me and I had some beats I wanted to rap on before I left. First week I got back I recorded all of that shit.” He was in there for 64 days and came out more focused than ever. The experience brought him to realizations that he was truly gifted with music. The final comment he had on the subject was “I don’t wish that type of shit on anyone”.
He got kicked out of school then sent out to rehab a couple weeks later. “They let me back in now, I told them I changed and shit. I was off the drugs heavy before I dipped and was failing all my classes. I don’t even know how I’m a Sophomore right now. I won’t ask any questions though. Kids in school just be slick hating. It’s less hate though and more dick riding.”
Wiardon has made an immense leap forward just in the past 6 months. He’s bettered himself from all angles and turned into the artist he’s been working to be. The progression he’s made is exceptional and he w ill continue to perfect his craft for years to come.“If I played you my beats from 2015 to now you wouldn’t even think it’s the same person. I got too many different sounds. Ever since I got back to my shit has just been going crazy for some reason.”
The album, Numba1Viktim is set to drop on November 7th a day after his 16th birthday. “I did almost every beat for it. This album sounding way different than anything I’ve ever made. It’s smooth. They’re all different, some of them are like its early morning and you’re cruising in a Cadillac. Some of them are like you’re walking down a dark ass street in New York at 2 A.M. Real grimy like that. I want people to not be able to believe it. How Lucki made ‘Aternative Trap’ at my age, I want it to be on that level.” This album is guaranteed to change a lot for Wiardon and the anticipation behind it says it all. The young man can rap and everybody who’s been sleeping is about to wake up on November 7th.