Radamez

Indianapolis-based rapper Ramel "Radamez" Williams says positive rhymes are just one part of his repertoire.
As leader of the Concrete Beats crew, Williams lists his specialties as party songs, club songs, serious songs and political songs.
"I hate putting labels on myself," he says. "I'm a mixture of everything. There's so much to talk about in the world. I can't stick to one topic."
In his song "The Archaeologist," Williams takes time to scold critics for "separating the music."
Williams grew up in the large housing development LeFrak City in Queens, N.Y., an urban setting that sometimes provides a roughneck context for his lyrics.
"I researched the whole 'hood, I scrutinized the block," Williams rhymes on "The Archaeologist." "I dug up the bones and came up with a million 'Pacs."
Williams says characters and situations in his songs may appear bleak, but that doesn't prevent the storytelling from reaching a positive destination.
"If you're angry about something, you can kind of flip that negative and turn it into a positive," he says.
"That's really what I'm about. I really don't want to put out any type of real negative stuff -- although I have in the past."
Still, he describes his childhood as being free of drama.
"I really think I was protected in a bubble of some sort," he says.
"I just see myself walking through the neighborhood and there's all this stuff going on around me: Shooting, killing, the selling of drugs.
"But it never affected me at all. I went to school and I did what I had to do."
Before moving to Indianapolis, Williams attended Emporia State University in Kansas and starred as a track and field athlete.
Presently a first-year firefighter with the Indianapolis Fire Department, Williams says emotional growth is heard on 2007 album "Innovative."
"I'm putting out the reality that I'm going through," he says. "It's a little more of an uplifting, triumphant kind of thing."
Williams recently entered a promotional partnership with East Coast company 101 Clothing.
When mailing orders, the company includes Radamez CDs as freebies. In turn, he wears 101 gear when he performs.
"I'm looking to help the company expand, and help them to help me expand," he says. "That's the ultimate goal." - Indy.com

HYPE: “Last but not least, we got to ask you the famous Hype question. Do you fell your music will have an impact on the industry in 20 years??”

Radamez: “Music speaks for itself, it’s hard to say. Some people don’t like going backwards to the old stuff, when the new stuff sucks then they go back to the old stuff to reminisce on what was once good music. Some like new material and want to go forward and prefer progression. I hope that people will grasp the concept of the music I am creating. It’s hard putting out good music when everyone wants to just hear beats and not listen to lyrics. I am giving out information through music, not just club music, although I do want ot make you dance. I’m like Peter Parker with split personalities. I’m this humble, nice, laid back dude, but then I become Spider Man clinbing and flying all over the damn stage and studio. I get ferocious on the mic. I’m like another person. I change everyday so songs are going to be different. I may wanna get crunked with a message , then I may want to talk about religion and social issues on the next song. You never know. I want to provide different emotions and events through music such as: anger, love, happiness, reality, fiction, and non-fiction. That’s when you have an impact when you can get any kind of emotion out of people through your music whether they like it or hate it. That’s when you’re an artist when you can provide all of that. I’m hip hop, so yes it will have an impact in 20 years from now. My music is like shit. If you throw it on the wall something will stick, right? It took all that to answer your question riiiiiiiiight! Lol”

- The H.Y.P.E.