Eem Triplin Talks $NOT Stories, YouTube Beats, Tyler The Creator, Awkward Freestyle (Interview)

Wanna be a part of the KTO community? Join our Discord! We do cool things like beat battles, Q&As, fan music reviews, and more.   / discord   Subscribe to our second channel where we post clips from our livestreams & interviews:    / @kidstakeover242   Host & Producer -   / ktoarshan   Filming -   / mikkyfilmz     / kokobondrazak   Editing -   / mikkyfilmz   Marketing -   / noahsafian   Instagram   / kidstakeover   Tiktok   / kidstakeover   Twitter   / kidstakeover_   Facebook   / kidstakeoverinterviews   During KTO’s recent trip to NYC, Arshan caught up with Eem Triplin, a rapper and producer from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Eem dropped his debut project, N0wh3r3, in Feb 2019 & has also produced songs for the rapper, $NOT, including “STRANDED”, “Revenge”, & “Demanding”. At the end of March 2020, Eem dropped his viral hit, “AWKWARD FREESTYLE”, which quickly spread across TikTok, garnering over 11 million plays on Spotify alone. The music video for “IF YOU GO” has over 300k views in less than a month & his most recent single, “JUST FRIENDS ?”, dropped in early September 2022. During the interview, Eem talks about making beats & rapping since 2014, being influenced by the internet, and reveals his skincare routine. He lists some of his inspirations including Tyler the Creator, A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, & XXXtentacion. Eem asserts that Childish Gambino is in the top 5 most talented people ever, before talking about his YouTube “type beat” channel & growth hacks for YouTube videos. He explains why he stopped selling beats online but reveals that Yeat rapped on one of his Lucki type beats. Then they discuss Eem’s biggest song to date, “Awkward Freestyle”, and how he didn’t expect it to go viral since his drop before that, “Pimp Talk”, didn’t perform well. Eem says he thinks that having Kim Kardashian on the cover helped “Awkward Freestyle” go viral, & admits he cried when he saw Tyler show love to his song. Eem talks about his history with PNB Rock, who he says was one of the first big names to reach out to him. He then goes into detail about his friendship with $NOT & talks about being at the Lyrical Lemonade video shoot for $NOT’s song, “Revenge”, which Eem produced. He details his funniest memory involving $NOT and a dead bat, & reveals that he was present when Yeat facetimed some fans for the Channel 5 video. They close their conversation with Eem discussing his release strategy and why it’s effective, before offering advice to young creatives. Kids Take Over is based in Vancouver, Canada. Timestamps! 0:00 – Eem’s Skincare routine? 2:38 – Pennsylvania 3:04 – Inspired by Tyler, Rocky, Kendrick, 4:40 – Childish Gambino is top 5 most talented people 5:40 – Eem’s YouTube channel where he posted “type beats” 6:50 – Growth hacks for YouTube producers 7:30 – Yeat rapped on Eem’s Lucki type beat 7:59 – Transitioning from producer to rapper 8:28 – Flopping on one song, then blowing up off Awkward Freestyle 9:50 – Kim Kardashian cover art helped “Awkward Freestyle” go up 10:12 – Crying when Tyler the Creator cosigned his song 11:15 – PNB Rock tapped in early w/ Eem, RIP 12:40 – Relationship w/ $NOT 13:56 – Funniest memory w/ $NOT involving a dead bat 15:25 – Yeat’s facetime w/ fans - Eem was there 16:10 – He doesn’t think he’s big enough to release an album 17:37 – Advice for young creatives Tags (ignore) Stranded stranded stranded revenge revenge revenge lyrical lemonade lyrical lemonade cole bennett cole bennett cole bennett tyler the creator tyler the creator golf ofwgkta ofwgkta ofwgkta odd future odd future kendrick lamar kendrick lamar kendrick lamar xxxtentacion xxxtentacion xxxtentacion childish gambino childish gambino childish gambino Lucki lucki lucki awkward freestyle awkward freestyle awkward freestyle just friends ? just friends ? just friends ? pimp talk pimp talk pimp talk louie v louie v louie v new jack city new jack city pnb rock pnb rock pnb rock $not $not $not snot snot snot channel 5 channel 5 yeat yeat yeat asap rocky asap rocky asap rocky a$ap mob a$ap mob a$ap mob johnstown pennsylvania johnstown pennsylvania johnstown pennsylvania producer producer producer beatmaker beatmaker beatmaker type beat type beat type beat kto kto kto kids take over kids take over kids take over 2 stream stream live live arshan rap rap hip hop hip hop underground underground underground interview interview #EemTriplin #AwkwardFreestyle #KidsTakeOver