Musicfinatics

As a college student, living in the dorms and surrounded by various people bopping to various music at various levels, I have acquired a taste and recognition of new and different artists. Though, one of my suite mates could be hearing playing David Bowie followed by Mindless Self Indulgence to Andre Nickatina. Jamie Williams answered a few questions about how the artist’s music has affected her and the people who listen as well.

Q. What influence do you think Andre Nickatina has on the audience who listens to his music?
His musical catalogue flows like a story, but only one you would hear if you listened to it through and through. That’s why kids keep listening. They want to hear what he has to say. I don’t think his music necessarily influences kids to make the decisions he may have made, it just tells them about what he’s been through. His albums are his autobiography.
Q. What do you think his music emphasizes upon?
Andre Nickatina’s audience is surprisingly white, for a hip-hop artist (forgive the generalization). I think kids, specifically from the bay area (Nikatina’s hometown), relate to his music because they feel like he is real and goes through the same things that they do. And he has an amazing flow. He’s an experienced enough artist to capitalize on his audience and so he sings the things he knows they want to hear.
Q. What song makes you think most of drugs upon listening to it?
“Chocolate Thai.” It’s also my favorite. Maybe “Ayo for Yayo,” too.
Q. If you could label one drug on Andre Nickatina, what would it be? Why?
Cocaine. Because he self admittedly “smokes chewy like a mother fucking nut.”

Young teenagers mimic Nickatina.