T-Wayne literally glided into the offices last week to talk a bit about "Nasty Freestyle" and how it's taken over the Interwebs. He was in town for a couple of performances, including at DG's A Gentleman's Club, on Friday night.
He came straight to our studio from the airport. He was still riding on air -- well, more like a Segway-like contraption without the handlebars. He was "on top of the world."
And then I asked him to dance, or rather to teach me how to do the dance that goes with this hit single on the Billboard Hot 100.
The rapper, who lived in Carrollton for years, says he's been writing songs since he was 12 years old. He's been hitting up YouTube for about six years. So I hit him up with some questions.
What comes first, the beat or the dance?
"I just write songs. I get the beat and I just make the songs," he says. "The songs I make I don't intentionally make them as dance songs. They just turn into dance songs like 'Nasty Freestyle' -- that was just a freestyle. It wasn't supposed to be a dance to it or anything. I just decided I was making videos one day and was like, 'Let's do a video to it.' So I came up with the dance after and then it blew up and now it's like an official dance song."
His style is a hodge-podge of many different ones rolled into one. How'd he settle on the songs on his mixtape, Who Is Rickey Wayne?
"I just took everything that I learned and put it together," he says. "I made it sound like my own style. Now everybody's in love with the little style."
With a sound-alike hip-hop name that's really just a mashup of his first and middle names, Tyshon Dwayne, it's good he's found a niche. And he's staking a claim.
Asked about it, he just smiles and says, "I'm the real T-Wayne."
