He has his team currently booking shows for the summer. on April 16 at Fremont Studios in Seattle, part of the festivities for Seattle Fashion Week. “I am open to any kind of music,” he said. He admired the song Nelly and Tim McGraw did together. While he listens to Jay Z and Bow Wow, he also is into Nickleback and country performer Brad Paisley. “He has been there since the beginning,” he said of the famous rapper. I have to show them that I am working hard.” I am pushing this album with everything I have,” he said. At the same time, he is taking an important role in promoting his music National distribution through a local label “is difficult, but not impossible,” he noted.īeing surrounded by supportive people, such as his father and his manager, is important to Tap Tap. He would like to get Lynx Records affiliated with a bigger label. Tap Tap is quite driven, intent on taking his career to the next level. “He knows what I should sound like,” the rapper remarked. His father, Tyrone Bradley, produced the album and owns Lynx Records, the label Tap Tap is on. I am getting a lot of good feedback,” he noted. It is his observation on the current state of the music industry. “The Time Is Now” is another new tune he is pumped up about. “When we finished we knew this was going to be the song (picked for a single),” he said. “I did not want anything too provocative,” Tap Tap recalled. The chorus and title for the tune came near the end of a long night of recording. The single, “Get Your Ass On The Floor,” is currently at #15 on the charts for local dance club play lists. “It is a whole new ballgame,” he observed. Now he can get into the nightclubs and hear the DJ spin the first single off his new album. One song off the first album was about a girl at school who was pregnant. He was still in high school when his last album dropped. Tap Tap’s growth as an artist is something of an evolution, quite natural for someone moving from being a teenager to a young adult. I have a totally different perspective now,” he remarked. The album title was selected about seven months into recording. Tap Tap grew up as a middle-class kid in the suburbs (Parkland, to be exact). Rap is about keeping it real, and good rappers offer a reflection of their real lives in their music. But that should not be considered a sign Tap Tap has substantially altered his style for radio airplay or a major-label contract. The result is “The Re-Introduction,” an album that seems tailored for mainstream acceptance.
Now 21, he just released his third, “The Re-Introduction.” As the title suggests, he sees a need to define himself.Īfter releasing his second album, Tap Tap pondered “how to recreate myself, to do something different.” Local rapper Tap Tap was just 16 when he recorded his first album.