Name: Dumbfoundead's Not Waiting for the Mic
Uploaded: 2020-01-26T02:31:17.000Z
Duration: 2 min 29 s
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That comes from, I think, my hip hop spirit a little bit.

I'm not gonna wait for that mic to be passed to me.

My name is Jonathan Park, also known as Dumbfoundead,

a rapper based out of Los Angeles, California.

I grew up in front of the television, you know.

My whole personality is based off of like

I started having interests in entertainment.

'cause I wouldn't see anybody on television or films

And that's when I started going a little bit more aggressive

When I started hopping on stages, when I got a microphone,

I wanted to be loud, and I wanted to be heard,

and I wanted to be outlandish and say crazy stuff, you know?

And that's kind of what built this confidence in me

to pursue rap and rap the things that I wanna talk about.

The song and music video, Safe, is pretty much my response

to the whitewashing of Asians in Hollywood

or any minority in the entertainment industry,

and I wanted to kind of come at it aggressively on the song

that nah, we aren't, you know, the model minority.

We have things to say, and you gonna hear a rebuttal

Growing up with a very traditional Korean-American family

in the household, being involved in music and arts,

When they turned on the television and saw no Asians on TV,

But growing up in Koreatown gave me tons of confidence,

and share these stories of my people all across, you know?

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Dumbfoundead's Not Waiting for the Mic

stuff

grab

pursue

aggressive