But for Dalton—who has been singing in Seattle's Total Experience Gospel Choir since he was sixteen—the song, not to mention the genre, is a bit of an odd fit. Growing up listening to soul music, he'd never been the biggest hip-hop head, limited to the songs and artists that came over the very same airwaves he's now dominating.
With "Can't Hold Us" nominated for a VMA this weekend and Dalton working on new music with one of Lil Wayne's producers, Ray spoke to XXL about the transitions in his life since the track hit the mainstream, diving into hip-hop—especially the music of Kendrick Lamar—and the new music he's cooking up in the studio.
How does it feel to have a platinum song and make Billboard chart history? It's crazy. I didn't think the song was gonna—you know, when we released the song, I had faith in the song that it was gonna do well, but you just never know—you never know if it's gonna be the best, if it's gonna be the worst song. But this, this is freakin' crazy. I can't even describe it—it's overwhelming. I just wanted the established singers and artists to hear it, and I wanted everybody to dance to it—those were my two goals, I just wanted everybody to hear it and everybody to like it.
Did you always want to be a musician? Yes, I always wanted to do music. I would listen to my parents' music and just sing with them and pretend I was singing live, and I'd watch all the people on TV sing, and I just really really really just wanted to sing on stage in front of people.
I'm in the Total Experience Gospel Choir; it's a pretty famous Seattle-based choir group, but they're pretty famous in certain parts of the world as well. I've been with them since I was sixteen—it's not your normal choir. We've sang for Bill Gates, for President Obama twice, done some really cool things. He was in Seattle for a lunch-in, and then again for a rally. The first time it was [intimidating], then the second time it was like, "I hope we get to meet him! Did you ever think you'd make a career out of music?
I wanted to make a career out of it; I didn't know what it would lead me to. I thought, "If I could do this So I started making goals to try to do that and do the choir.
I was just making little goals, and I guess they just got bigger and bigger. So I'm still always making goals. Growing up on soul music, how did you get into hip-hop?
Someone in the scene needed a hook, and my friend called me and was like, "Hey, a rapper needs a male singer, you've been wanting to do this, here's your chance. My name kind of got around the town, and that's how it happened, I just started making music with people. I was never really into hip-hop; I liked to listen to whatever was on the radio, but I didn't ever grow up listening to any rappers.
I liked some songs where they would do a little verse, but I wasn't huge into hip-hop as much; I just thought it was cool 'cause people did that on the radio.
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