Neaux I.D.

What brought you to Dallas and how long have you been in your career? 

Music brought me to Dallas. I was working at Sonic in the drive-thru and I was making $4 an hour. Then I was like, man, fuck this shit I'm out, bro. I quit that day. I got in my car, everything I owned was basically already in the trunk. So I call my mom's. and told her I was going to Dallas. One of my best friends from high school, Walter, went to SMU and he had a full ride scholarship, so he had a free apartment on campus and would always tell me I could use it if I was trying to come to Dallas. I came out here with $64. Ended up getting a job at raising canes. I was traveling out here anyways with my homies, doing music, like doing little shows and shit so I already kind of knew like a couple of people out here. Chris, our manager, was super connected, like with everybody out here. Then in 2018, I broke off and I was like, I just want to kind of make my own music. And here we are.

You found your lane and the music you want to be making, what was your process getting there?

Stressing, bro. I just used to be making songs. I kinda stopped giving a fuck in a sense. I didn't know how to write hooks at all. All I knew how to do was write bars. So like niggas a cut on a beat and I would literally write bars for a whole three minutes and 30 seconds. I didn't know where to stop, how do you know where to put it, all this shit sounds like straight beat to me. I was leaning towards more like boom-bap production, and that's really just like a loop. Then I started looking for different beats and they sounded like I could put something different there. And I would put too much focus on what the listener will think when they hear me say this, instead of just saying, fuck it. Now people hear my shit and they be like, bro, what'd you mean by that? And I’m like, whatever you took from it. I don't put too much thought into trying to tell a story or making sure each thing makes sense. 

“I would put too much focus on what the listener will think when they hear me say this, instead of just saying, fuck it. Now people hear my shit and they be like, bro, what'd you mean by that? And I’m like, whatever you took from it.”

All my projects are going to sound different. So like Neauxvember EP is going to sound completely different from what I'm going to put out next month (March 2021). What I put out next month is going to sound completely different from my album. And then whatever I put out after that. I already got beats for that. And it sounds nothing like the beats on my album. So that's what I strive for. While still maintaining my bounce and my lyricism. I want people to be able to hear the growth too. So that's kinda like how I choose what songs I'm gonna do. Cause I'm like, “Yeah, like this was me then, it's old to me, but it's new to everybody else.

What can we be looking for?

I got merchandise coming out. I'm trying to come out with some hoodies. I don't know what design or what color way I'm gonna go with yet. But I do have some hoodies and some rolling papers coming out. Hopefully a listening party if COVID don't fuck me up. Probably like March. I want to put my own show together to really connect with like the people that fuck with me. I'm trying to give people a way to connect with me more than just listening to my music.

“While still maintaining my bounce and my lyricism. I want people to be able to hear the growth too.”