Daylyt and Hopsin are kind of kindred spirits in rap. They’re both California MCs who turn heads with their unconventional looks, and they walk the line between serious artistry and satire, sometimes to the confusion of their fans.
Battle rapper Daylyt started popping up in cameo roles in Hopsin’s videos for “No Words” and “ILL Mind Of Hopsin 8” last year but, he says, the two want to work on something big together.
In a recent interview with BattleRap.com, Daylyt details how he first met Hopsin at a rap battle with Supa Hot Fire and how they started working together after that.
He also goes into detail about wanting to save the giraffes. “It just so happens we had the same purpose, and it was to do something big. We never thought it was gonna be save giraffes,” he said. “We came up with something called ‘The Combine’ — it was something that we was just gonna work on as far as helping each other out to do something bigger … I had made a joke post of like ‘Yo me and Hopsin bout to go save some giraffes.’ It was a joke. It was all a joke … I told my man Mr. 2TheP that we were gonna make a song called ‘Save the Giraffes’ so we made the song but it was a joke.”
AD LOADING...
But then the more he looked into it, the more it made sense. “So my man Mr. 2TheP calls me up and goes ‘You know giraffes are really in danger, right?'” Daylyt explained. “So before you know it we start reading articles, we start really tapping into this and come to find out that giraffes are really going extinct. Like rapidly, and nobody is saying anything … So I called Hop and was like ‘Yo Hop, how would this world look at us if we actually did this?’ People can say whatever the hell they want about us but if we actually did this for real, we’d be looked at as very good people by a large amount of people.”
Check out a clip of the giraffe-centric song below:
