ILYAS NASHID // From EmCee to 3D

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Nashid, who began dabbling with video animation around 2015, broke out in the early 2000s as an original member of hip hop group Tanya Morgan before splitting from them in 2009. He, Donwill (who is originally from Cincinnati and now lives in D.C.), and Von Pea of Brooklyn, New York, established themselves in underground hip hop with their EP, Sunset, followed up by their debut album, Moonlighting, and finally, Brooklynati, which was lauded as part of XXL Magazine’s 2009 Freshman Class. By that time, Nashid could see the music industry was struggling to keep up with the evolution of technology when someone at their label asked them how to use social media.

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“The funny thing is I always saw the wave of the future, especially when I saw the 2Pac hologram [from Coachella 2012],” Nashid remembers. “I was like, ‘Man, with the way tech is going, one day, somebody would be able to be in the studio and project their image all over the planet, and [perform] everywhere at once. So I was pulling that on that wave of, ‘OK, now I’m going to be a virtual artist.’ I’m older—I’m not trying to jump around on the stage anymore.”

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