Your first project Club Wiley was received well. Did it accomplish the goals you set out for it?

Alex Wiley: I didn’t really have any goals for it. I was just trying to put out my first body of work. I do think that it was received well. Not as well as my new tape obviously, but it was cool. It was definitely a good step for me to take rap in a more imaginative direction. I want creativity to be celebrated more than the things that I think are being celebrated right now.

So, talk to me about Village Party.

Village Party is definitely the best mixtape that came out this year so far. I mean, it just is. It’s definitely something new and just super hot.

There are a handful or so of popular artists out there that pay close attention to up-and-comers. One of those is Ab-Soul, who you worked with recently (“As I Unfold”) . What’s it like when they reach out?

It’s cool. I don’t look at it necessarily that way, though. I think we’re all peers at this point. I definitely have a lot of respect for Ab-Soul and it’s cool when people whose music you respect have that same respect for your music.

Give me some of your best highlights over the past year.

My DJ threw a party in Markham last night. Not too many people knew me there, which is rare at a party in Chicago. “Juke Ya Boy” comes on and this girl I was with got to juking me. I was being juked to “Juka Ya Boy,” in Markham in 2014 as Ya Boy. That was the most based moment of the past, maybe, couple years.

I did an interview with Sway, too. That was tight because he’s Sway. Sway’s has been the man for a long time and is going to be the fucking man for a long time. That shit was really cool.

What’s left on your bucket list?

Where do I start? I want to drop an album with Chipotle. It’s a whole plan I’ve got. I’m going to drop an EP with Chipotle then I’m going to have my own burrito, the “Alex Wiley”. It’s gonna be pork with, like, mango salsa and a nice kind of sweet barbecue sauce and a mango chutney kind of thing. And I’m going to drop an album with it and in every Chipotle there’s going to be stack of my CDs. Whenever you order my burrito, you get a free copy of my album. In every Chipotle worldwide, that’s how that’s going to have to go down.