Today I bring another interview with a very talented young man from Waldorf, MD. - Aquilvcr. I featured him recently with his single "Green Roses" before on the site. After Spellbound and his own showcase of Southern Maryland Artist, Catch Us Now, I felt I should do an interview with the legend in the making.
How did you come with the Name Aquilvcr?
My name Is Anthony Aquil. Aquil is my actual name. VCR isn’t just some shit I made up, I lived it and then made it up. VCR stands for Visionaries Create Reality. I feel like those are the three things you need to be successful. You gotta have a vision. You create your vision and make it into a reality. When you possess all three things you live the VCR.
How do you feel about the DMV Music Scene?
I’m so proud. It still sucks in general, but it came a long way. That's why I’m so proud. There wasn't a DMV Music scene; there was a DMV GoGo scene. We living here know about stuff, but no one outside does, and now we have people outside the city rocking with us. I feel like that's a beautiful thing. I know that its going to keep getting better and evolving and evolving.
I’m going to change it by being the crab that got out the barrel. Its deeper than making it out. That’s just step one. I want to create a wave or vibration, an ecosystem of people moving up. A teamwork effort. The left hand washing the right hand and vice versa. Creating a unification on some DMV vs everybody shit. Come on, We’re the DMV! We got three states! That’s a lot of talent. Once I put out my master plan and make movements, Rappers move off monkey see monkey do, and I hope that people follow me in the good way.
You mentioned Naruto in your song "Green Roses", so who would win in a fight, Madara or Itachi?
[sighs] That's hard. I like Itachi, but we all know Madara will win. It’s Itachi tho, He’ll find a way. Officially I’d say Madara, but we all know Itachi would win.
If you could make a song with someone who would it be and why?
Probably Erykah Badu. I always wanted to be in the studio with her. She’s so talented. D.R.A.M as well. He’s from where I’m from. He’s a good person, and he inspires me. Seeing how the Drake situation played off and just brushed it off and didn’t let that phase him or stop him.\
Your apart of Fall Records, whats the aspirations behind the group.
Family and Love Loyalty, its an acronym. At the end of the day you cannot go wrong if you are moving by that. If you heart is instill in that, nothing will go wrong, because you will go hard for your brother or sister, you will do your best for your family.
Do you have any goals for Fall Records?
Mainly for Fall to complete all our personal goals. In retrospect looking back and be like we did. For unification, for people to look at us an emulate the cooperation. How we do what we do and how we are making it is because we work together as a family and as a unit to help one another.
Whats your main reason for making music?
Its therapeutic. Another reason is because I don’t have a girlfriend. Music is my girlfriend. I can make a whole scenario in a song that sounds like I was in a two year relationship. Now it’s therapeutic to other people and that's dope. I had so many people tell me they had sex to the whole No Valentine EP and that's so lit. That put some good karma out.
You guys recently hosted the Catch Us Now showcase in Waldorf. Whats the next move. Are you guys going to try to showcase different artist, Or more of you guys?
Everything I do is going to promote me. That’s why I don’t mind helping other people. People are going to come to me because I'm helping them. You had no problem reaching out to me to help me because you know you’re good. I feel like people don’t like doing that because they’re intimidated. Going forward, we are going to do more with Waldorf, because I can’t stop it, its a need. We don’t have much out here. People from here don’t want to be from here. Doing what we’re doing, the kids and people looking up to us are going to be inspired to keep the tradition going. It can keep getting bigger and bigger. You not a boss until you put someone else on. As a human being you’re suppose to help yourself. As a man you’re not a boss until you help the next man. Helping someone else makes me feel like I'm progressing because if I'm able to help someone else then I know I'm doing my thing.
You said it best yourself, we have to do the unification of Waldorf. That shits deep to me. There isn't any. If we can unify something this big, we can unify the next city. Everyone complains about “oh I need to do a show, I need to do this”.
I did Spellbound in my Cousin’s backyard.
Yeah! Like you gotta trap out then you gotta trap out. Like I was seeing people I didn't even know vibe out with me like that. We have to set that infrastructure so that we can be a unit.
Where do you see yourself a year from now?
I’ll be putting together my first independent tour situation. As well as having a good three to five possible projects out. I will be, I don’t know, I feel like I'll be in a very good space by then. I would have touched more people, met more people. Wait hold up if I did all this in a year, I’m about to be on MTV next year. People will know me.
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