Mike Smiff: "That Title Represents My Mindset Movin Forward I’m Only Having Family in My inner circle. Blood doesn’t make you family Loyalty does” speaks on fire new project “Family Business”
Author: Link Up TV Admin | Thursday 23rd July 2020
Hot upcoming artist Mike Smiff speaks his truth behind the infectious “No feelings” project. Mike Smiff’ street smart cultural upbringing, mirrors every part of him “This Is Dade County. This Is South Florida. This Is How We Act Dress Talk & Move & When You Listen to The Music This Is What’s Going On”. Mike Smiff’ childhood forced him to boss up quicker and channel all his struggles, pain and knowledge into music. Mike Smiff reveals the raw emotional truth of life before success, which many are not psychologically equipped for “I Grew Up On Section 8. Hud Housing. I am A Food Stamp Baby Raised by A Single, mother of 3 Boys. All We Had Was Each other”
Food stamp families are often unfairly labelled as a burden to society. From a young age, he had to learn to survive and cope with practically nothing but family. Mike Smiff’ musical inspiration was and will always be “Trick Daddy Dollars”. “Family Business” has ten spine-tingling tracks, his favourite track is “No feelings”. The project is a collaborative family track with Mike Smiff’ baby brother Rondo Smiff, “This Project Means A lot To Me Because It’s With My Baby Brother & I would never do a whole project with him if he wasn’t ready. Rondo Smiff has growth mentally and artistically, Family means everything to Mike Smiff, longing to see them grow and prosper is an unmatched feeling for him.
The inspiration behind the title “Family Business” is reflective of the close relationship he has with his immediate family “Growing Up We Was All We Had & It’s Still That Way”. Mike Smiff’ selectiveness and protection of energy, exclude outsiders into his space; hence, why the project is called “Family business”. He states “It’s Me & My Little Brother from Beginning to End No Features & That Tittle Represents My Mindset Movin Forward I’m Only Having Family in My inner circle. Blood doesn’t make you family Loyalty does.”
Mike Smiff continues to show the perspective of blood is thicker than water, all producers are family, using in house producers, “Make It Bang made 2 beats & Rippa On The Beat Did The Other 8.”Mike Smiff, successfully shows being ahead of the game, with Kodak Black collaboration. “The experience was dope”, and Kodak Black’ team reached out to him personally, to work together! It further unlocked a new level of his mind-set to level up and keep grinding. Mike Smiff’ talent is undeniably hypnotic.
Mike Smith has hinted at a few exceptional features, and Fans can only anticipate seeing - what new heat he will drop, who do you think his next collaboration will be? Make sure to listen to his latest project 'Family Business' below:
Words: Rachel Onilude