{"id":205985,"date":"2021-11-02T14:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/?p=205985"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:25:25","slug":"griseldas-new-signee-rome-streetz-is-out-to-spit-master-level-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/griseldas-new-signee-rome-streetz-is-out-to-spit-master-level-rap","title":{"rendered":"Griselda\u2019s New Signee Rome Streetz Is Out to Spit \u2018Master-Level Rap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/rome-streetz\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Rome Streetz<\/a>\u00a0is having a year. The New York underground stalwart has been dropping lyrical gems for over a decade now, but more people are paying attention than ever, thanks to his\u00a0<em>Death &amp; The Magician<\/em>\u00a0collaboration with DJ Muggs and show-stealing appearances like his \u201cKill All Rats\u201d verse with Conway the Machine and Ransom. Westside Gunn recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/westside-gunn-interview-hwh8\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">told Complex<\/a>\u00a0that Rome gives him that \u201890s feel, and that\u2019s what led to a signing with Griselda.<\/p>\n<p>Rome says his name comes, in part, from killing cyphers and rap battles all over New York City back in the day, making valuable friendships and connections in various neighborhoods because of his skills. It\u2019s fitting that his name harkens to a journey, because it hasn\u2019t been a simple path for Rome. He was born in London and moved to New York City as an infant, before his mom sent him to live with his aunt in London to keep him out of trouble. While on the cusp of getting a record deal at 17, though, his aunt sent him back to New York. During our phone call, he divulges that he also endured the \u201cups and downs\u201d of jail stints that hindered his career.<\/p>\n<p>Even when he came home and locked in, his gritty, lyrically dense brand of hip-hop had a more difficult road in a city where media personalities like Ebro were calling any artist without a radio hit a \u201cminor league\u201d artist. But those kinds of superficial assertions have faded enough from the scene to allow spitters to be unabashedly themselves. One can take a look at last year\u2019s lyricist-heavy nominations for the Best Rap Album Grammy, for instance. Rome stuck to his guns through multiple generations of New York rap, and he\u2019s now taking advantage of the times to have what he says is \u201cprobably my best year\u201d as a rapper.<\/p>\n<p>Rome has already dropped three projects this year (the Muggs project,\u00a0<em>Genesis 1:27<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Razor\u2019s Edge<\/em>), and he\u2019s set to release his\u00a0<em>Coup de Gr\u00e2ce<\/em>\u00a0collaboration with Ransom at the end of the month. Early feedback from their early October Quad Studios listening session indicates that the project will be another \u201821 favorite for hip-hop heads. We spoke with him about his winding career, Westside Gunn\u2019s genius, and why his \u201cpen has adrenaline.\u201d The interview, lightly edited for clarity, is below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome Streetz\u00a0is having a year. The New York underground stalwart has been dropping lyrical gems for over a decade now, but more people are paying attention than ever, thanks to his\u00a0Death &amp; The Magician\u00a0collaboration with DJ Muggs and show-stealing appearances like his \u201cKill All Rats\u201d verse with Conway the Machine and Ransom. Westside Gunn recently\u00a0told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":205945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[39721],"class_list":["post-205985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rome-streetz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205986,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205985\/revisions\/205986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}