Life & Work with Defkhan 1400 of Los Angeles

Today we’d like to introduce you to Defkhan 1400.

Defkhan, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Basically, I feel like my story definitely starts from my childhood when I experience traveling a lot through having parents that lives on different side of the country through that I feel like the only consistent thing I had in my life was the different varieties of music that was available to me and the older I got the less I started to really pay attention to it and appreciate it as much as I should and see it is what it is but around junior year of high school one of my closest friends, Nesta started making beats and they were really good. Around the same time, my brother LäVä started rapping, and he was really good, so I, being who I am. I tried to connect those two people in, and so doing that, Nesta used to always tell me I had a good year for what was good and what was bad musically. He suggested I rap, but I always passed off the idea of it because I just felt like it didn’t really fit me deep down, I always knew it did. Still, I always kind of passed it off and made it seem like idea of it was too crazy for me around my ending of senior year when my brother LäVä came to live in LA with me I really stopped and looked at myself and decided that this is what I wanted to do so I started wrapping it from that point on I haven’t stopped. I really don’t think I ever will. I think what got me to where I’m at today for sure would be my brothers, and that’s the Camp Pain. I feel like I’ve really been grazed by God with a group of individuals with mindsets like mine, and for most people, that’s a really rare thing. I feel like even where I’m at today, there’s so much more room to grow and I know I wouldn’t have been able to get here or go to where I will be without my brother, so I definitely think those guys are my inspirations my biggest fans, my biggest supporters, and my backbone for sure.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
A smooth road is definitely something it hasn’t been. I think in my generation, you kinda get clowned for doing anything expressive or out of the norm that everybody else does. It’s hard for a creative like me and even like my friends to pursue what we love to do and what we really excel at when you have the masses going against you, but at the end of the day, none of that matters because when you have a team like mine behind you, anything is possible. Another thing that definitely was a struggle for me was accepting the fact that I’m actually talented, like I feel like I’ve always had a really big problem with psyching myself out and downplaying my abilities and what I’m good at and what I’m capable of. Even today, that’s something I still deal with, but the more and more I keep putting our music and getting reactions and seeing how much people love what I do, the more I realize that this is definitely the purpose I think I was put here for.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I don’t wanna say I’m a rapper even though that’s the most my new title I can give myself I wanna say I’m truly an artist, and I wanna say I’m an expression almost. I feel like every piece of my music, no matter what vibe or what sound or how slow or how fast has a true genuine part of me in it, and I feel like my goal as a rapper or an artist i should say, is to really express what’s going on inside my mind and for most of my life that’s been a very difficult thing because I feel like the way I think and the thoughts that go through my mind is so unique that nobody else will be able to process on the same level as me and I feel like the only way I’ve been able to get people to see life as I feel like I see it is through my music. my one true goal is to really be able to show not only the world, but myself how unique and one of one I am, I feel like nobody can compare to me in any shape for a manner and it took me a while to get to this point of confidence, but now that I’m here I know how true it is. I’m known mostly for my music, but in LA, I also model, so I’ve been able to gain a little bit of attention from that, too. I’m definitely most proud of my accomplishments musically and the amount of skill I’ve gained in the following since I started almost 2 years ago. More than anything, I’m proud of the collective. I’ve been able to really build and make moves with and learn lessons with, and take losses with. I think we set me apart from others is the idea that there’s only one Defkhan. in my life, I feel like so many things have worked out in my favor, regardless of what I’ve done or how I’ve went about it and up until recently I couldn’t figure out why what was my purpose for everything shaping the way it shaped, but now I see that everything was supposed to happen the way it was supposed to and I see now that I’m definitely one of those people that was put on this earth to change the world and I do genuinely think that’s my purpose and I feel like I can’t stop until I’ve done so.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
This topic is something I’ve discussed with my brothers on a normal occasion. I feel like no matter what people say. The industry itself is kind of like a spinning wheel. Everything‘s gonna keep happening, but at some point, you’re gonna see certain things changing in it. I feel like even the way some people make music nowadays or go about their record deals and even the type of clothes they wear, the type of jewelry they rock, it’s all a remixed version of what’s already been here, so I do see small changes that are definitely gonna happen like different sounds, different looks, and even different ideas of what’s accepted and what’s not accepted. I do think it’s always gonna be a recurring trend, though. More than anything, though, I think the biggest trend that’s gonna come in the next five years is my Camp Pain. I think that between me and the rest of my collective, we’re gonna become the face of music at some point, and I just hope everybody’s prepared to deal with that because that’s the only option for us.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/defkhan
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/defkhan1400/?hl=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Defkhan1400
• Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/2s1eRXCW8zF6M3KtVg

Image Credits
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