RichHoodMpire consists of members Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichKel, H19dRichNard.
Three artists to be on the lookout for this year come from the RichHoodMpire label — Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard, and H19dRichKel. The Atlanta-based artists bring a new sound to the table while pushing their own “hood rich” movement through their music.
Keep reading to learn more about who they are and about the movement.
What city are you from/ Where are you based now?
Jamel Thomas also known as Hk20dRichJay Is From Orangeburg, South Carolina and is now based in Eastside Atlanta, Georgia alongside Mekel Thomas & Jeremiah Benton also known as H19dRichKel, H19dRichNard.
What is your artist name? What is your real name? How did you get your artist name?
The artist names Is Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard, and H19dRichKel, along side their label/brand name RichHoodMpire. Their real names are Jamel Thomas, Jeremiah Benton, Mekel Thomas. They got their artist names from accordingly being in the hoodrich movement and trying to get rich in the hood as they accomplished that goal in the beginning of 2021.
How would you describe your sound to readers who may not be familiar with you?Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard is one of the artist in the TrapDaily Sound movement along with other underground rappers such as Nutso Thugn, SlimeSito, Glokk40Spazz and many more.
What’s one reason you are passionate about music and what inspires you?
Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard are inspired by being in the studio and just playing around in the studio, trying to find new flows that nobody’s tried before, so nobody’s sounding like them. They got different flows, but they all sound like themselves. We don’t want to be like everybody else, where they have one flow and keep rapping the same way on every beat. So then n—-s get to saying, “All their s–t sounds the same.” We never wanted to be like them. Like I said, We be having like six different flows. So we just start rapping to whichever one we feeling, and bop to that bitch. If we feel like that’s the flow we should go with, we going with it.
Who are some of your main musical influences?
Some of Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard main musical influences are SlimeSito, Beezy B, La Capone, Bankroll Fresh, Young Pappy, Fluhkunkhos, Ngeeyl, and many more.
Tell us the name of the project you are currently promoting? What inspired this project?
The projects RichHoodMpire, Hk20dRichJay, & H19dRichNard are currently promoting is titled The Brood and Not Green both projects were inspired by recent activities happening or that has happened in there life & some of the milestones they accomplished in this year of 2021.
Date that this project dropped or is set to drop?
Both of these projects were released to all platforms in October. The Brood dropped October 30, 2021 followed by H19dRichNard project Not Green That Dropped October 31, 2021.
What is this project about in your own words?
These projects The brood, & Not Green are about the struggle & recent activities that Hk20dRichJay, H19dRichNard both played a role in threw out the years of they life they been threw plenty of things living in section 8 moving place to place not really having a lot as kids & was forced to go out in get it on there on that’s who they make there music for the young n—-s growing up in the hood.
What’s next for you? Are you working on any upcoming projects we should be on the lookout for? Include some dates if you have them.
Old Gucci date to be announced soon. And the big and awaiting project called Glen Ave 2 with his brothers H19dRichNard and H19dRichKel behind the project that will be dropping sometime this summer date for that coming soon as well. What’s next for us… we are looking forward to 2022 and new beginnings as we will continue to work hard and drop for the people who are listening and are influenced by us and our music #RichHoodMpire.
What message do you hope fans take away from your music and from this project?
Be you. Do what you like and how you want it nothing comes over night. If you want something in life, keep telling yourself what you want and to make it happen. Don’t back out of what you want because other people think it’s too good to be true, anything can be accomplished in life.
Where can we follow you on social media? Include links.
You can follow us on social media @RichHoodMpire, @Hk20dRichJay @H19dRichNard, @H19dRichKel. We also formed our group known as RichHoodMpire LLC.
Check out their music below.