Interview · moment 11 of 25
Chasing the Dream While Living in Motels
from #223 - Lil Xan | The Tim Dillon Show · #223
3 min
Guest
Lil Xan reflects on not feeling depressed while poor because he was chasing his music dream, taking photos of artists as a superfan before landing the Lil Xan name, and how the hardship shaped his sad/emo rap style.
- Living in motels while chasing the dream—whether the situation itself caused depression.
- Tim's guest explains he was trying to chase his dream and knew someone in the family had to change things.
- One of those guys gave him the opportunity to fly to Austin, Texas, where he got the name Lil Xan.
- The guest reflects on whether all that bad stuff might have actually been for the better.
- He doesn't like to label his music genre but explains people call it cloud rap, mumble rap, SoundCloud era stuff.
- Tim notes the guest talks about a lot of pain and addiction in his work—emo rap, sad rap.
- The song Slingshot is the one they used on a video Tim helped with and it's a good pump-up before going on stage.
- Tim's guest says the video was shot at Forest Falls, about an hour away, with a waterfall at the end.
- The video ends with the guest's ass crack and then the song plays.
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