Ok, so you’re from London – how did your hometown influence your jazz/hip hop sound?

Rainy Milo: London inspires me lyrically, I get a lot of my ideas from eavesdropping people on the train. As far as the sound, the whole mesh of different genres of music that definitely came from growing up around my mum. She would play jazz, my sister would play hip-hop, my granddad was a reggae DJ so I definitely had a lot around me.

Do you have any favorite reggae artists?

Rainy Milo: A lot of the time I would just watch my granddad practice, he’s still really into it and half the time I don’t know who I’m listening to but I feel it.

Talk to me about your debut project. What direction did you want this album to go?

Rainy Milo: I wanted to do what I always do which is sit back and think about things that I’ve gone through and how they made me feel and start from there. I definitely wanted it to feel as though it was all-together, like it was a body of work and not just an album of singles. Everybody is just out here making hits. You have a few great hits on the record and then the rest are just throwaways. I wanted to make sure that everything was a good track on its own. You could pick out any of the songs and be like ‘this is a really good song.’

Favorite record?

Rainy Milo: My reoccurring favorite is really “So Uneasy” which is funny because not that people like that one. I feel like its one of the best songs I’ve written and everyone is like ‘it’s ok.’