DYLON DILLIJENT
Born in Mississauga, Dillon aka Dylon aka DilliJent has been a fan of hip hop since birth. It wasn’t long before he started to realize the process of making music at age 13. It was then he became a fan of making music as well as listening to it. He began producing at age 13 and had been freestyling since the same age. “I never knew how to write songs until I was like 15. I used to just freestyle for hours on end until I bucked up with KJ and Castkit. They were the ones who showed me how to lay that shit out in bars.”
After 4 years of steady writing, producing, recording and mastering not only his own, but a hefty list of artist locally, he joined forces with some locals rappers and put out a mixtape. It was 100% produced by Dylon (known as DilliJent at the time) and got a rather good response. Shortly after that Dylon became a solo artist again, until about a year later. In 2002 Dylon and Castkit came together to form “The Stick Up Kidz”. “Me and Castkit just vibed on some street shit AND on some studio shit. I lived with him for a while and we probably recorded like 50 solid songs. We ended up loosing a lot of them because of fucking computer problems.” The name of the group changed last year from “Stick Up Kidz” to “SK” which symbolizes their names to close friends: Skit and Killah. “People call me Killah because I’ll make people die laughing and shit like that. I also smoke killer weed and shit. It’s not meant to be taken literally there's a history to it.” With one SK mixtape released, and another on the way, Dylon is taking time to form himself as a solo artists as well as part of a group.
After about 5 years of creating and producing music behind him, Dylon is now preparing for his first independent solo album release entitled “Dylonic Mindset”. The album is also 100% produced, mixed and mastered by him at his own studio. “A lot of mother fuckers nowadays think they can go out and drop like 500 dollars on some cheap studio shit, and smack down some bullshit on paper and release a mixtape. Artists need to concentrate on making quality MUSIC and not just TRACKS.” Now recording on a Pro Tools console with about 5000 dollars of equipment, Dylon has come a long way from making tracks in his closet!
His music is not simply words spoken into a microphone but more of lessons hidden underneath raw unadulterd lyrics. “Hip Hop is supposed to be expression of how you live your life, and I just try to stick with that. If you selling kilos or cleaning toilets I don’t give a fuck! As long as you can express that through a song skillfully then you’re a good rapper. These industry assholes got it twisted. My motto: Money talks, but respect will listen.”
More than an artist, producer, and engineer, Dylon also has plans of starting his own label, directing music videos, scriptwriting and acting, and opening up his own chain of studios across North America. “The key is you can’t waste time. Everybody thinks that money is going to come to them! It’s out there you just have to GET THAT! It’s something I just realized myself. You got to set goals and achieve them. Sky is the limit.”
With plenty of his own music, as well as his fire production team(Over Grind Productions), you can expect to see, hear and read a lot more about Dylon DilliJent aka Killah D aka The Brown Hope. Just don’t blink and you won’t miss anything!
www.myspace.com/dylondillijent
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