Cannabis and music have a unique way of combining to create a glorious adventure. While that adventure may only be sedentary while you’re blasting Tame Impala or whichever band most makes your preferred high music, your mind will go elsewhere for certain. However, sometimes a lifestyle mainly consisting of the two themes could lead you to interesting adventures across the state and country.
Being surrounded by excellent music from Texas runs in the family of 25-year-old Dallas rapper Neko Savvy. His grandfather, Charlie Hatchett, was a music booking agent in Austin who booked some of the biggest bands from Texas, Stevie Ray Vaughan to ZZ Top and The Eagles among so many others, across the country’s music festivals and venues. He revolutionized Sixth Street and West Campus as great locations for live music, most likely assisting in the city’s moniker as “The Live Music Capital of The World”. Hatchett’s career as a booking agent for Texas music was so decorated that he was inducted into The Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2011.
A notable individual throughout his budding career that helped Savvy see the hip hop potential that’s present in songs such as “10 Toes Down” is Dallas producer and best friend since childhood, Icon South.
Savvy describes the abilities of his good friend by saying that South helped him “expand his mind with quality production and engineering” and gladly admits that a good amount of his best songs have been produced by South.
“He helped me become more of a dominant artist in the way of doing business with people and helped me come out of my shell.” Savvy said.
Among his many adventures in music so far, Savvy’s opened for Riff Raff in Denton and has accomplished the act of recording a new track entirely in the Apple Store of Stonebriar Mall, complete with South using a sweater as a makeshift sound booth before being unfairly removed from the store by an Apple Store employee who apparently had a Genius bar up his ass.
Other adventures including studio sessions with well-known rappers like Ray J and many artists that Icon South has produced for, Trippie Redd and Dallas-based rap duo Yung Nation to name a few. He’s met Wiz Khalifa at a bowling alley in Hollywood been flown out to Seattle to tour and perform at dispensaries and toured Artizen’s cultivation facility in the Emerald City.
A proud cannabis advocate and consumer, Savvy has found the herb to be beneficial in numerous ways towards both his life and his artform. Besides the obvious creative advantage and relaxation from day-to-day stresses, Neko has found cannabis to allow him to almost view his productions on a deeper level, giving him the ability to determine when to add specific vocals in certain areas and melodies or effects in other areas.
As his platform in the hip hop community continues to grow, Savvy will remain a staunch supporter of the benefits of cannabis both medically and recreationally. Cannabis references will still serve as a constant theme in his upcoming songs and cannabis consumption in his videos isn’t like to cease either.
“I’m pro-cannabis and there’s no reason not to be unless you’re a Big Pharma company or you’re in the tobacco industry. I’ve never been in either and I don’t ever plan on being in one of those.”
Not too surprisingly, Savvy has constructed plans for an aspirational future. Among them are to headline and sell out a major EDM or hip hop festival with his friends and have an eventual album go platinum. And personally, we wants to stay healthy in order to continue producing music and marry a wonderful lady in the future and purchase a house in Colorado to “ski a shit ton” as he theorizes.
To listen to his music, follow him on Instagram or Twitter and on his SoundCloud page.