Interview by Keith Reid-Cleveland (@kreid_c)
Lil Bibby is the newest promising face to be attached to Chicago’s music scene. Free Crack, his first and only mixtape, was released at the end of November and has reached almost 800,000 views on LiveMixtapes.com since then. Showing some perfectionist tendencies, Bibby wasn’t satisfied with those numbers. Having received cosigns from the likes of Drake, Mac Miller, Juicy J and many more respected people within the industry, Bibby is looking to have a strong 2014 starting with the release of The Book, his upcoming EP. Bibby talked to Fake Shore Drive about the EP, how he deals with his rise to fame and why being at South by Southwest may have been the worst experience of his life thus far.
FSD: Just to start off with more recent things, I saw that yesterday you tweeted “’THE BOOK’ coming soon.” Is that your EP or something else that we need to know about?
Lil Bibby: That’s my EP.
FSD: Alright, cool. So where are you in the process of that EP right now?
Lil Bibby: I’m like five songs in, five songs. I’m thinking about putting like seven songs, seven, eight.
FSD: Any idea of when we may get that? Like, a rough idea?
Lil Bibby: It might be done in six weeks, six to eight weeks.
FSD: Important people seem to be saying that 2014 is going to be a big year for you. How do you plan on following through with that expectation?
Lil Bibby: Man, I got some work to do. Man, a lot of work [laughs.]
FSD: Alright, I feel that. Any ideas of how you go about that work or are you just going to keep working hard and keep grinding?
Lil Bibby: Shit, just knocking out a couple big songs, big features. I gotta do some visuals, man. That’s why I’m having a lot of trouble. I don’t really like shooting videos like that.
Just everything, man, groundwork. Photo shoots and all that type of stuff.
FSD: You’ve got a long list of cosigns from a lot of respected people in the industry. Why do you think they support you so much?
Lil Bibby: I don’t know, man. I just try to keep everything as real as possible, man [laughs]. I think they like that, man.
FSD: Who has cosigned you so far that you can think of?
Lil Bibby: Um, Mac Miller, Juicy J, Drake, Tyler, the Creator, he cool. ScHoolboy Q…
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