We can't stress enough how excited we are! Total Scoop welcomes, Louie Le Vack.
He has just released his first Grime inspired track, 'Stressed.'
Released on Christmas Eve, Stressed, reflects LeVack's darker side. New on-the-scene, with help from back-street beat-maker BlackInk, Le Vack is coming into his own. You don't want to miss this...
On a particularly dingy day (ironic to my location) I met Louie Le Vack in Brighton. We nursed a couple of cocktails at The Mesmerist, a middle-class jazz-bar that reeked of sophistication, a stark contrast between the laid-back, low-rider seated in front of me, chatting avidly in a rough, London accent.
The cocktails seemed to loosen his lips as he shared the exclusives, the creative influences that lead to the production of his new music video, Stressed;
"Stressed is my latest venture, I decided to release it on Christmas Day, because of the stress of it; all the pointless present buying and mayhem around Xmas. It's just too much for me... once I think about it, I write about it."
We all stress from time to time, but the life of a rising star is decidedly inconsistent and frantic. These are the times in a musician’s life where it can all get too much.
With rap-god Kanye-West’s public fall from grace, this poignant subject is something Louie knows all too well;
"The track was inspired by my habit of stressing out when there's too much to do. Especially as a modern artist, where I'm constantly forced to take on the responsibility of promoting, branding, maintaining social media, the list goes on. After all that, I still have to find the time to actually work on the music - y'know... the important shit..."
Directed by Sheridan Griffiths, the music video, a raw depiction, dark and grotty, a drug-induced club-room. This time, Louie's own version of reality seems darker than that in, 'Faded';
"The video is set in an apocalyptic trap house, the characters were inspired by the film, 'Shank', from that opening scene. We also wanted to mix in a grotesque banquet, getting everyone involved to act like citadel savages - like a scene from the Hunger Games..."
Shot like a dream, this music video feels like a scene from a movie, Stressed is another one of Le Vack's visual stories - the lucidity one can feel when stressing, how it can send your life into a tizzy, with a repeatable hook that’ll roll around the heads of NIKE wearing road-men on the way to the club for months’ to come;
"It's taking two worlds and merging them into one. A lot like what we live in now, the obvious class divide, the gap in wealth in the UK. This video represents mankind's greed and self-indulgence, despite the fact I feel we all live on each-others doorstep, there's an ignorance I see towards the wider community - watch this space..."
Big promises from a twenty-one-year-old newcomer. Reminiscent of old-school Plan B or Schoolboy Q, Le Vack's rapping style uses poetic techniques - coming from a theatrical background, he uses it to his advantage to superimpose himself on-top of his latest grime and trap beats.
We feel Le Vack brings a fresh take to rap, something that we haven't seen since the demise of old-school hip-hop. Waxing theatrical lyrical is Le Vack's daily past-time, so much so, he's taken the time to incorporate seamlessly fluent Spanish into the track... a man of many talents, leaking potential.