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Yung Esckimo Aims To Inspire & Motivate The Masses
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Apr 26, 2024
Yung Esckimo is here to inspire and motivate the masses all around the world. Hailing from the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the rising star fondly remembers falling in love with music at the age of nine. Thanks to his first album, 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Yung Esckimo was empowered to memorize all the lyrics and perform them in front of the mirror before eventually rapping them during lunch at school. Yung Esckimo claims he's “the coldest trapper in the city." He adds, "[I'm] really the most inspirational and motivational artist that the youth or anybody that's going through tough times and hardship should tap in with.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CsHugCsAruZ/ Through his upbringing in New York, Esckimo always carried a hustler mentality that bled into both his personal and professional life. Priding himself in making music that’s authentic to him, it wasn’t long before his song “Never Broke Again” would light the streets on fire, serving as his first record to reach one million streams. Fast forward to 2024, Yung Esckimo is excited as ever to be unveiling his newest EP, Blue Magic. The project is spearheaded by lead singles “The Code” and title track “Blue Magic.” AllHipHop spoke with Yung Esckimo virtually, who was posted up in Atlanta after enjoying the food at Magic City. Read below as we discuss his background, new releases, the meaning behind Blue Magic, studio essentials and more.
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Well, I'm Shirley here with all hip hop. Uh Super excited. We are young Eskimo in the building
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Young Eskimo. What's going on the coldest trap in the city? Thank you so much
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Where are you located right now? I'm a, I'm, I'm around, I'm in the A TL right now
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Nice. How's Atlanta treating? You? Just treated me beautifully. Shout out to Magic City
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Is that the strip club? Yeah, I've, I've been the food in there is immaculate
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I love it. How much you throwing at Magic City? I'm throwing a couple of dollars here and there
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you know, the holidays is here. So, so we can't get too crazy. True
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Very true. I love it. I like to start with my interviews by asking for those who don't know who is young Eskimo
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How would you describe yourself? Young Eskimo is the coldest trapper in the city
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Really the most inspirational and motivational artist that the youth and anybody that's going through tough times and hardship should tap
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in with fire respect. How did you, how would you describe yourself
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How would I describe my sound is definitely uh inspirational, you know
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it's, it's, it's, it's a breath of fresh air. It's Brad Lewis. I don't sound like anything out on the market right now
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You know, I got you. Um, being from Washington Heights. What was that like growing up
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It was, um, it was, it was, it was, it was tough
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it was hard. Um, it turned me into what I am today
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you know. Can you, I mean, I, I have no idea what it's like out there
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Can you describe Washington Heights is a mixture of, of all blacks Hispanics
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um, and anything you're looking for, you can find it in Washington Heights
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You know, what was the moment you fell in love with music? The moment I've
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I've been following, I've been, I fell in love with music. Young. Maybe when
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um, Get Richard Dy came, Get Richard do try, came out. Um
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soon as I put that 50 Cent tape in it was over
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you know, I was hugged. What's your favorite 50 cent song? Probably many men
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Many men for sure. Wish that upon me. Uh huh. Blood in my
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Now, I can't see. I love it. Um, at what point did you realize you could do music for a living
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Um, when I had, when I had my first million views, I know
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All right. Maybe I could turn this into a profession, you know, what was the song that hit a million views
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Um Never broke again. NBA by Young Eskimo. Go Stream that. Now
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how does it feel to hit those numbers independently. It felt, it felt amazing
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You know, the, the fact that they used it for the NBA finals was really
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uh, uh, a special moment is that, that's fire. Mhm. How did that feel
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That, that, it felt, it felt, you know, it definitely kept me wanting to keep going
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you know? Ok. I felt it, I felt exquisite. I love it
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How did you get your name? Um, Well, growing up in Washington Heights
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you know, my friends used to call me Esco, you know, and the Eskimo just came from all the ice
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and all the extra curricular activities that we had going on, you know
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I love it. Um Were you hustling? Like how are you getting this paper
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Of course, man, we hustling, we hustling all in all ways and forms
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you know, I was, I was 1312 years old and, and, and you know
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when they had them summer school job programs, I was hustling and, you know, I had a
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you know, we started from nothing. We started from, from, from zero. So I've been hustling all
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all my whole life to be honest, respect. Um Why don't you just dropped uh the code
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Yeah, it's doing immaculate as well. What were you on recording this one
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Um The code is just really, I, I just felt like, you know, a lot of the culture and a lot of the
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the youth has lost, you know, the co the, the codes that we came up on and
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and the value of certain things. So I wanted to implement this song called the code just to give the youth AAA certain guidance
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You know what I'm saying? Like we live by a certain code, we, we, we move a certain way
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So, you know, it's, it's, it's ready to call the life when you think about it
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You know what I'm saying? I respect that. And did you, where did you shoot the video
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I shot the video and um I shot it, I shot it in, in different parts
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I shot some of those scenes in the Bronx. I shot some of the scenes in Harlem
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You know, I saw some of the scenes in Jersey, they're all over, all over the city
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What was the last video I did. Yeah, that's why I'm asking you enjoyed it
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I did. Yeah. What is the code? The code is, is, is the code man
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It's the code of life. Like I just told you it's the code of, you know, it, it is living by a certain code
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living by a certain standard and I was just asking more specifically if there is a certain code
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you know, the cold. Never, you know, you heard you heard the song what I said
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I I said um um they're not living by the cold anymore so you gotta
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they gotta get in tune but never, never, never give that never give that money to
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you know what I'm saying? Make sure you got that money for that loyal. T that's
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it's part of the cold baby respect. Um What about, what can we expect from
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uh Blue Magic? Those magic is no. Magic is no. Yeah. The intro came out
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the Blue Magic intro came out. But, um what you could expect from Blue Magic is the harsh reality of the things that we gotta
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go through in life to be successful. You know what I'm saying
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So it's, it's more of a breakdown of how hard things could get
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But it's also inspiring and motivational for you to keep going and see that there's a light at the end of the tunnel
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So that's what Blue Magic is. Why do you, is that, does that name
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is that name significant? Um Is, is it came from the, from the American gangster from Frank Frank
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Lucas. Blue Magic was what what he used in order for him to get to the top
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But I'm giving you Blue Magic from young e what young Eskimo used to get to the top
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It's just in my own way for sure. For sleep. Um Talk about uh launching
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your own label too. Scam Yeah, Scam Inc um Success comes out
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The manifestation is, is, is what it stands for. And um you know
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I'm, I'm launching my own label because I also feel like there's, there's a lot of artists and there's there isn't enough CEO S in
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the game that's able to put young artists and, you know, young entrepreneurs in position to win
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So I wanted to create a platform that was, you know, one day it'll be big enough in order for me to bring up the
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next artist and the next generation that's coming up behind me. Respect
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I love it. Uh What's the money talk? Money talk is just
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you know, it's not money talk, baby. We don't do drill. We let the dummies talk
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Like I said, it's more of a, you know, the music that I make is more of a motivational music for you to wanna be
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successful for. You don't wanna reach certain limits and, and, and certain goals in life
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You know, it's not just um you know, like, like I said
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the youth is rapping about drill, drill, drill, not just that nothing is wrong with it
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If you know, if you, if, if you're an artist and you getting paid and you know
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you, you made a lane for yourself. God bless. But you also gotta understand that as an artist you given you putting out a message
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you know what I'm saying? And the youth takes that in like a sponge and they trying to do what you do because you're a
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role model. So, you know, money talk is more just, you know
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we don't do drills. We let the dummies talk 200 down on me
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That's that money talk. You know what I'm saying? We, I'm trying to, I'm trying to guide you in a
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in a, in a entrepreneurship way. You know what I'm saying? Get that money
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forget about that, drilling and killing. You know what I'm saying? Let's get to the money
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Let's get to the generational wealth, respect. I love that. You use your platform to motivate
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I think that's awesome for sure. Thank you. Uh What are three things you need in the studio at all times
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Three things I need in the studio. I definitely need a bath. You know what I'm saying
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Cause I need to make sure the, the vocals is right. Um I need to make sure that ac I need that ac Y cause
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young Eskimo needed to be nice and chilly in there, you know what I'm saying
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And I definitely need my engineer. Shout out to Alpha, got you
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Fire. Uh What's the best encounter you have with the fan? The best encounter I had of a fan
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A matter of fact, I was coming off of the um airport here in Atlanta and I had a
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I had a gentleman that was working in the airline that recognized me
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He said, yo, young Escobar, I follow you on the gram and yo
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it was a pleasure to meet you. You know that was, that was um that was
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that was, that was a good feeling because I feel like you know I'm spreading out into other
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other states and all that. Totally. I'm from New York. Yeah, cool
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Do you have any goals for yourself at this point in your career? Definitely
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I have several goals, you know. Um, we definitely wanna, we definitely wanna make it
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make the right impact, you know. Um, we definitely wanna start packing out arenas and
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and, and certain shows and, you know, but we take the, the right steps in order to get to where we're going
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But definitely we got, we got a whole bunch of goals intact for sure
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You got a dream collapse, huh? Dream collab, a dream collab. My dream collab will probably be Jay Z coming
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from New York City, you know, but, but, but being a rapper in the 21st century
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maybe, you know, I might wanna throw little baby in there as well for sure
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So if you had to pick between 500 K or dinner with Jay Z
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would you pick it? It's that money talk. Let me get that money
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You taking money over Jay Z after you just said, Jay, listen
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Jay Z told me to pick the money. He told you, listen, if you
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if you want the game, just go get all the albums for 1099 and I'll give you the game that you need
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Take the money, respect, respect. I love it. Is there anything else you wanna let the people know Blue
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Magic coming soon? Um Eminem is out now, go download that, go stream that blue magic coming soon and we got definitely got a couple
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surprises for y'all coming in 2024. So just stay tuned, stay in tune with the brand scam in Young Eskimo and we come beautiful
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Thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Shirley. Appreciate you
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Of course, have an amazing rest of your day. You too
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