FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – Growing up in north Ft.
Lauderdale, Scott “S.A. Vents” Anderson and his family didn’t have much. Even
when his mother got a promotion that allowed them to move to Lauderhill,
Florida in Broward County, it was a difficult area in which to grow up. But it
was within that neighborhood that he got an education, both in diverse cultures
and music genres.
Though hip-hop and reggae was always a big part of his household,
he started getting into rock, techno and house music while in his early teenage
years. By junior high school, he and a friend began playing around with beats
and amateur producing on his friend’s laptop.
“We would literally sit there and listen to music – like old
hip-hop,” Vents said. “It’s how we picked up a passion for DJ-ing, and it
really influenced the way I grew up. Those old-school rappers – like Tupac and
Biggie and Dr. Dre – were teachers to me. I really got into that, and we
continued to DJ all the way through high school.”
His passion for music continued to grow during high school,
but it took a back seat to basketball for a few years. College started off
strong, but eventually became a struggle that turned into bad decisions with
drug use and expulsion from school. He found himself in Atlanta, living in his
aunt’s attic, and that’s where his love for music re-sparked. He enrolled at
The Art Institute of Atlanta and majored in audio engineering. He discovered
his own unique sound and style. And he began to develop a plan to make music a
career.
In 2016 he moved back to South Florida and has been working
on an album ever since. He plans to release the album later this year, but is
ready to drop a five-song EP called “Ground War” in the next month or two as a
prelude to the larger album that will be released later.
“The concept of it is that I’m an underground artist and no
one knows about me,” he said. “’Ground War’ nods to that. I’m fighting this
battle to get on the scene. I’m another person from the underground trying to
get on the scene and shine. This EP has a hip-hop vibe to it, but I experiment
a lot when it comes to my sound. My tone of voice is different, and I do some
weird raspy sound effects. It’s different from anything I’ve heard melodically
that’s out right now. Plus my wordplay is a little different. I don’t have
regular bars – my bars are kind of abstract. Some of it is 808, and some of it
has more of a west-coast vibe, but more than anything it’s just a diverse
mixture of sound. You can’t put it in a box.”
Fans who want to sample that unique sound can do so by
visiting S.A. Vents’ Soundcloud
page. Fans can also follow him on Instagram
and Twitter, or at S.A. Vents on
YouTube and Facebook.
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