So then I thought, Nightmare Park should be me getting out of that, it’s almost a follow-up in a way.ī: Tell us about the process, in terms of who you were collaborating with, making the music, etc.Ĭ: Yeah, so like I said I started this project over like two other times.
It was an EP, I think it was just 8 tracks, and it was just about my life and the darkness in my life. It was Friday the 13th, which is scary, but I dropped that in 2016. I had to learn that the hard way.ī: What were the inspirations behind the project, and what are some of the details that influenced how it all manifested?ĬTI: I guess the project started because, my first project was called Spilled Memories and Splattered Dreams, which dropped when I was 17 years old. It can feel like that, but you can definitely get out of it, but it’s going to take some effort.
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So when I finally figured out what I wanted to do, I just ran with it, and honestly it’s unbelievable how it all fell into place.ī: If you had to summarize the project in a few sentences, what would you say?ĬTI: Nightmare Park is about me showing you how to get out of your nightmare, showing you don’t have to stay in the darkness forever. This latest mixtape, Nightmare Park, actually started as two different mixtapes before this, with totally different concepts and everything. Since then I’ve dropped one EP, I also dropped a throwaway tape but that’s gone and deleted so I don’t really count that, so just that EP is really what I’ve released since I started. The rest is just history from there, and I still have that first rap that I ever wrote. So I wrote like the first line, maybe it was a little more than a line, but then I immediately erased that and was like nah, I’m gonna write a song. I went downstairs, my Dad was doing spring cleaning or whatever, and somehow I decided I was going to write a book. I had never purchased a CD before, that album was the first one, and I ran that up I really played that all the time.ī: Tell us about how you started in music, and your journey up to the point of getting ready to release this latest project.ĬTI: I started off rapping because one day, I had to be like 11 or 12 but I still remember it like it was yesterday. I call it an artist because, to me a rapper just be rapping, but an artists put stories together, they focus on their words, they try to paint a picture in your mind, so yeah.ī: Do you remember the first album that you purchased or downloaded?ĬTI: Hell yeah, honestly it was Big Sean’s Hall of Fame. I don’t like saying rapper, cuz I do more than rap, it’s kind of like rap-singing. Many of the all too familiar themes that come up in honest, vulnerable hip hop are present, but through the unique lens of a singular human vessel, contributing to the sea of personal stories that turn cold statistics into living, breathing examples of how our society fails so many.Ĭheck out our conversation with Chasey below:ī: So first, tell us your name and what you doĬTI: My name is Chasey the Illest, I’m 20 years old, I’m from the west side of Detroit, and I’m an underground artist, I’m a rapper. Through the 17 tracks on Nightmare Park, Chasey continuously outdoes himself with clever and meaningful lyrics, delivered through a sharp flow that has obviously come from a lot of practice and a lot of passion. By establishing a realistically fictitious approach to the mixtape, Chasey gives himself the freedom to fully embody the message of his music without being confined by the details. Cyht)” sets the stage: an unknown narrator gives a brash description of the story’s setting, Nightmare Park, before giving way to Chasey the Illest‘s troubled and introspective words, where he immediately questions why things have to be the way they are in the world that the artist resides in.
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