New Music And New Sound Just Released From Nicky Greed
Entitled THE TRUEST OF GREED
Written by Monica Kallas – SharpShooter Marketing Group
A new and different sounding musical artist from Palm Beach County, Florida
has just released his first full length CD entitled THE TRUEST OF GREED. Nicky Greed is the primary creator of this project which includes Rap/Hip-Hop music blended with influences from Rock, Alternative, R&B, and delivered by a voice that is sometimes compared to Jimi Hendrix. Nicky’s lyrics, rapping and music is strong, powerful, direct, raw and from the heart. He also includes other artists on the album to add a refreshing mix and blend of different energies and styles to keep any Rap/Hip-Hop lover smiling and moving with the beat.
Nicky Greed (A.K.A. Nicholas Trott-Pearman) was born in the Bermuda and moved with his mother and brother to Florida at an early age. His mother, who was a singer in Bermuda, was his first and primary source of music as she sang and played music around the house. Nicky said that those early days included mostly R&B, easy jazz, and “feel good music” from artists such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jon Secada and Kenny G.
Thanks to his older brother Lenny (AKA Draco), Nicky was also exposed to another type of music genre while growing up. Lenny shared his taste in music with bands such as Metalica, AC/DC, Mudvayne, System of a Down and Disturbed. What caught Nicky’s attention however was the band Incubus. “I started vibing on that music and started to try to emulate and sing like Brandon (the lead singer).” After awhile Nicky’s singing improved and later in life, he started pursuing rock music by creating the band Silver Solin where he was the lyricist and singer.
The pivotal moment in Nicky’s young life however was a visit from his cousin Cadre (A.K.A. Dre) who came to visit from Atlanta. Cadre is described is a ball of energy with extreme life experiences coming from an edgy, fast moving urban area. This was very different from what Nicky was accustomed to having been raised in which was a fairly sheltered and safe environment. “Dre came down and wanted me to kind of toughen up because I was raised by my mom and my grandmother. Dre came into the picture and he had a little bit of this hood vibe to him. He had me listening to DMX, and Jay Z. He had me going to Miami, he got my mom lending him her car, he got me comfortable talking to the girls, and best of all, he rapped. That’s what really sparked the rap side of my music because he opened me up to that culture and that type of music.”
“What I really liked about rap then and now was that there was nothing held back. Even if the subject was brutal or just about a different way of life, there was an intensity about it….a truth. I’m a very big fan of the truth and keeping it 100 whenever you possibly can. So that was another thing that appealed to me about rap.”
In describing his latest project, “THE TRUEST OF GREED”, Nicky said, “Honestly, the CD is intense.” Regarding the first song he continued, ” It was really cool to do The Reckoning because it was a song I wrote when I was still in Silver Solin. The song was lost for a while and put on the shelf, but I got to use some of those lyrics from that song in The Reckoning. So I made that the first song because it displays the Hip-Hop which is the core of this album but it also reflects my roots in rock and my love for alternative music at the same time.”
Official is the second song and Nick added, “Official is kind of like the one-two punch. If The Reckoning was the first hit, Official is the second. It is the core of rap. The chorus is rooted from when I first started listening to rap – it’s what I felt when I first started to listening to rap.”
In choosing a special song on the album, Nicky mentions Daydream. “I did a song with Cavari called Daydream – that’s a very special song to me. I wrote the lyrics and the place that those lyrics came from are a bitter sweet memory of gain and tragedy at the same time. The words come from very tough life lessons that I had to go through; friends that I had to let go of along the way or that were lost because of who I have become. Originally I was supposed to sing on the song and then do the rap on the end but I felt like the emotion would be carried better with a female counterpart. I respect and love Cavari so much – she has such a powerful voice, such a powerful spirit and whenever I hear her I’m moved. The words that I wrote, I wrote them to be moving so combining that with her voice and her intensity really, really made it come together to be a beautiful song. It’s one of my favorite songs.”
“The last song, number 14 is very special to me as well because it is a remix I did of Incubus’s song Drive. That song means a lot to me because I’m a diehard Incubus fan. I started the album with The Reckoning displaying both sides of my musical heritage, and I wanted to end it in the same way. I also wanted to end it in something that is familiar to people. All the Incubus fans should like it and I think it was a nice way to end things.”
For information regarding Nicky Greed’s music, contact info and social media sites, visit www.NickyGreedTheBadWolf.com.