The DMV Daily Interviews: Von Tae

1. My first passion actually wasn’t music. It was dance.

2. I talk about it in my music sometimes but I don’t drink heavily or smoke at all.

3. Bananas milkshakes are my fucking favorite

I am not one dimensional

I’m a “rapper” but I love doing vocal warmups before recording. I’ll sing to music for about 30 minutes.

I need my space most of the time before performing. It gives me time to think, pray to myself and to tell myself that I’m worthy and deserving of that moment. It’s somewhat like a meditation. If I’m unable to be alone, I need to at least be in a quit place without noise.

Easy.. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, J. Cole and Luther Vandross.

It’s a never ending evolution of trends. I embrace all pieces of it. Even for the legends, some of them have been taking from the new generation and adding it into their music now. It’s definitely not what it use to be. Streaming has become more important than an actually physical copy sale and thats okay. We just have to understand that things change.

I’d definitely like to meet and hang out with Cole for a day. He seems like a dope dude. I like people who are genuine and people who aren’t about taking photos and videos of everything they do. He seems like that kind of guy. He doesn’t do shit for the attention of others or for it to go viral.

My cousin Patrice use to take us to acting auditions and from then I fell in love with it. I started when I was around 10 years old. I knew I wanted to be an actor when I started mimicking different characters and doing their voices so well I’d get praised during school and around the neighborhood.

I’m a horror movie, action and drama kind of guy. Horror being my favorite. I’d love to do a really dope ass horror movie one day and maybe do a comedy with Taraji or someone like her. I’ve worked with Tyler Perry in The Haves and Have Nots, nothing huge but that was an amazing experience. I’d like to definitely work with him again on something bigger.

So many. I respect Denzel, Will Smith, Martin, Bernie Mac, Taraji, Dwayne Johnson, Angela Bassett. They’re probably my top favorites.

I’d like to do a huge action movie and horror movie. Something with a crazy twist or different storyline from all of the other movies. The last really good horror/acting movie I saw was “The Quiet Place”. I saw that in theaters, it was amazing.

My family, friends and my amazing fanbase, Team Tae who support me through it all.

Ah, shit.. J. Cole, Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Luke James, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, Andre 3000, and Jamie Foxx.

V – VERY picky (Its very annoying sometimes. Its hard to please me)

O – OPTIMISTIC (For the most part I’m very optimistic and see the good in everything, even the bad)

N – NEXT (It’s my time to shine. I feel like I’ve worked my ass off to get where I am and now it’s going to pay off)

T – TIME (I’m so horrible with time management. So much it annoys the shit out of me.

A – ARTIST (As long as a singer/rapper and actor, I’m a artist as well. I love drawing and painting)

E – ENTERTAINER (I love being able to explore all of my talents and express them all)