MESSIAH! Interview: 'the villain wins', Growing up in Charlotte, Touring with MAVI + More

#MESSIAH #INTERVIEW #BEANSANDBARS We traveled to North Carolina to sit down with on of the most exciting acts to come out of Charlotte, MESSIAH! to talk about him growing up there, meeting MAVI, the making of his new album 'the villain wins' + more you can find MESSIAH! at: instagram:   / 1of1messiah   twitter: https://x.com/1of1messiah you can find us at: Instagram -   / beansbars   Twitter - https://x.com/barsbean Tiktok -   / beansbars   TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Growing Up in Charlotte + Being Born in Virginia 3:20 Not Being Taken Seriously in Smaller Cities 5:00 Building Music Infrustrcutre In Charlotte 7:30 Growing up Listening to Jay-Z/Gospel 9:00 People Not Taking in Full Albums Anymore + Shorter Songs 12:10 Writing vs Punching In + Writing Process 15:00 Learning How to Rap 17:00 Being less Googley-Eyed With the Industry + Being Real 19:00 Putting Pain infront of the Public Audience 23:00 Doing open-mics at Howard 24:00 Meeting MAVI + Making of KillSwitch 30:00 Going on tour with MAVI, Then Going Back To Reality After 35:00 Ahmad and MESSIAH! Talk about Picking up Jobs to Make the Dream Work 40:00 It Feels like Sometimes it doesn't make sense! 45:00 Coming up with the name MESSIAH! 49:00 Making Project 'Dead Man' 52:00 Making of 'The Villain Wins' + Concept Behind it 55:00 Making Silent Heel with MAVI and ovrkast. + Being Hands on with Production 1:00:00 What Do You Want People to Come out with 'the villain wins'? In this interview, the host Ahmad sits down with rising artist MESSIAH! in his hometown Charlotte to discuss his upbringing in the city, and how that effects the way he makes art, with the need of wanting to go back and build the proper music infustructure. Ahmad and MESSIAH! discuss the artists he was listening to growing up, and how that influenced his writing process. Ahmad and MESSIAH! also discuss the first time he met fellow Charlotte native artist MAVI (interview coming soon), and how he formed a group called Kill Switch. MESSIAH! explains how he landed on his stage name, and the deeper meaning behind it, while telling us the story of how it was inspired by an accident before the making of his album Dead Man. MESSIAH! also tells us the experience of touring with MAVI for the Laughing So Hard, It Hurts tour, and him having to go back to his routine after. Ahmad and MESSIAH! also discuss his new project 'the villain wins', and the process of making it.