delonmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\nNo stranger to the stage, rapper-producer DeLon has been a fixture on the underground hip-hop scene\u2014and now he hopes to move into the mainstream with his latest release Awake<\/i>. The 28-year-old cut his teeth in the clubs of L.A., but what sets him apart are his Sri Lankan roots and straightedge ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get away from drugs and alcohol in this industry,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I created my own oasis\u2014my studio. I\u2019ve had YG, Ty Dolla Sign and other rappers in there, and they all know there are no drugs or drinking allowed.\u201d He has also been outspoken about high-profile issues affecting his family\u2019s homeland, including the 2004 tsunami, civil war and terrorism. \u201cBeing in the industry for 10 years now, I\u2019m comfortable doing my own thing. People love you for who you are, not you trying to be someone else. If people like my music, they like it\u2014if they don\u2019t, they can press fast-forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HOMETOWN: Pasadena, Calif. INFLUENCES: N.W.A., Tupac Shakur, Outkast ALBUM: Awake, 2016 WEBSITE: delonmusic.com No stranger to the stage, rapper-producer DeLon has been a fixture on the underground hip-hop scene\u2014and now he hopes to move into the mainstream with his latest release Awake. The 28-year-old cut his teeth in the clubs of L.A., but what sets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,83],"tags":[8896,8895,8897,8893,3668,8894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17174,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions\/17174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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HOMETOWN:<\/b> Pasadena, Calif.<\/p>\n