Interview with Jeremih
First of all, what’s up Jeremih? How are you doing?
Yo yo. All good. Just got off the plane.
Sooo, first off, I personally want to congratulate you on the success of your single “Birthday Sex” which officially went platinum & of course your album. How did it feel to debut at #1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop albums and #6 on the Billboard Top 200 AND have your debut single go platinum?
It’s a great feeling. I wouldn’t even say it’s a dream come true, cause I didn’t even know that it would even get this far, you know what I’m saying? It’s still shocking to see how there’s a lot of people today are responding to the record still, you know? It’s actually been playing in Chicago since October but now I mean just being able to travel through the states & pretty much get the same reaction as I did in my hometown and even now going overseas & hope to make people aware of it & promote it. But knowing that I’m going out there & people still know it is kind of crazy, like they’re singing with me word for word for word. I don’t know; it’s a great feeling.
Now who was your biggest supporter & your foundation for pursuing a music career and encouraging you to reach the current position you’re in now?
If anything, my mom and my manager. They always supported & said “You know Jeremih, you can be this & that. It’s going to happen.” They always said it but I always kind of brushed it off like “Okay whatever.” I knew I could do music; I knew that it was always in me & I held the gift, but never to the point where I felt like I could be a professional singer. I was always just a musician; I was always a producer and never thought the world would accept me as a singer coming from not only my talented family, but just a lot of other talent that are out right now that can sing, to me, twice as better. But I think it’s more than that; I became a writer and I think that’s what really helped me out. I was no longer just looking for records, I was doing records & knocking them out on my own, and I think that really made the difference. Yeah so my mom, my manager, & my partner, Mick Schultz; he believed. We didn’t know each other; we just met each other in 2008 in January. Here we are now in 2009, and who would have known. All you hear from people are stories that say they’ve been doing it for years and trying to get on, and it just kind of happened for us. It’s a blessing.
