004: The Khris P Interview
A conversation with one of my favorite Greater Seattle Area talents for the BRICK blog.
In my first full-length interview of this year, I caught up with Khris P, a Tacoma rapper and producer whose last project made my 2022 In Review roundup. I’ve been wanting to get Khris up on the blog for a while now, but I wanted to time it right. This year promises a lot for the underground legend: a new project, some big, currently classified announcements, and more (“The rest of my year's kind of set up—I'm really just having fun right now.”).
A lot of people remember Khris P as a member of now-defunct rap group ILLFIGHTYOU, but nothing has excited me more than his reinvention and resulting solo career as a triple threat: “Rapping was kind of like me having a battery in my back again,” as he puts it. Like I mentioned before, TRACKBURNERZ VOL. 1 especially caught my attention for the chemistry between him and its lead producer: “QJ and me are the new ESCO and Future.”
I think what excites me more than anything is Khris P’s commitment to doing things his own way:
A label would probably hate me. I've thought about that a lot. I'm playing a crazy game where the music I make isn't exactly regional sounding. I’m doing my own thing. A label would probably result in too much headbutting. There’s no way but independent right now. Highway shined by being different. How I’m operating… the type of music I make is different from some of the other stuff coming out of Seattle. I’m turning Khris P into just everything that I hope for at this point.