Meet Erik The Terror

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Erik The Terror. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Erik, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I get my work ethic from my mother. & Grandma. We call ourselves Grandma Babies because we spent alot of time with our Grandmas. Alot of our mothers were single mothers & worked alot & we spent alot of time with our Grandmothers to watch us..

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
Erik The Terror aka #Big7 or Sir Drenched is a rapper/producer/engineer from Winston-Salem, NC who has been rapping his whole life, writing his first rap as early as 8 years old. Finding inspiration early in life from his brother Fredi Ruger (singer & producer) & his mother, Mama E. After Meeting his manager @DatDudeChris, a former underground houseparty DJ in 2018, Erik released his mixtape 777 on soundcloud. This prompted Dat Dude Chris to sign him to Dat Dude Records. In 2020, during the pandemic, Erik released his first EP under Dat Dude Records named ” Play Times Over”, With hit singles “Her House” & “Fxck It” E amassed over 2 million streams over all major platforms in just over 2 years. This buzz has allows him to start his own label “GMB Ent” where Erik signed his former college roommate “Fat Jared” Go check out Fat Jared new singles “Pocket” & “Lunatic” on all major streaming platforms. In 2022 Erik dropped his first full length album “7” under Dat Dude Record. Big7 has been approached by multiple labels but remains independent. Be on the lookout for singles off his next project based on a trip to Lakewood, Colorado called simply Lakewood. His recent single “Jokic” featuring King Buzz was released July 15th. Be on the lookout for new content on our Youtube page & social medias.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Resilience, Educate, Execute. Mistakes will be made. The objective is to learn from failures & prevent them from happening again, Also the ability to have resilience & overcome those hurdles is important. You have to balance alot as an artist for example, you also have to have that continued drive to execute or create while developing a high performing team to aide in your success

How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?
Organic support & opportunities. The city we are from doesn’t like you until it is cool to like you. There is a big crabs in the bucket mentality. People mainly share negativity & drama. They will not support your releases on social media. Also living in a small market like the Triad, there are not many good music performance venues. & most of the halfway decent places are booked up. We still push the music with other marketing strategies.

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