Symba is feeling guilty. The Bay Area rapper has been under the weather and he just lost his phone, so he hasn’t been able to do much the last few days beyond laying on the couch—plenty of time to reflect on his journey thus far. “We’ve been running around the past three months, I think it’s kind of all just catching up with me this week,” he says, on Zoom, his voice an octave higher than usual thanks to congestion.
That running around has been in service of promoting his excellent DJ Drama-hosted mixtape, Results Take Time, which dropped last September. Illness aside, he’s still trying to be productive somehow, forcing himself to listen to some beats. His drive to keep working might come from the fact it took him so long to get to the cusp of stardom.
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He grew up with dreams of being a hooper, but life (and ego) got in the way before he discovered a passion for rapping. From there it was a series of setbacks. He dropped his first project in 2012; it garnered little buzz. He signed to Columbia Records in 2017; his deal went nowhere. He found a better situation with Atlantic Records; a worldwide pandemic stunted his growth. He built a buzz in recent years the way rappers used to, by dropping a series of freestyles that earned co-signs (and reposts) from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Fabolous, and LeBron James.
He topped it off with Results Take Time, one of last year’s best rap projects. While Symba’s lyricism is the highlight of the project, the thread that holds it together is how it details the perseverance and grind it took for him to get to this moment.
I listened to Results Take Time because I saw people tweeting about it and was impressed because I didn’t know much about you, but felt like I learned who you are as a person listening to it.
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That’s kind of been an angle. I had a long journey. I was always a popular kid playing basketball. Me and one of my basketball coaches got into it at practice during my junior year, I’m like, ‘I ain’t gonna play this year, fuck you!’ So I sat out.
Through that time, I started going to my friend’s house who had a desktop microphone that we was recording on. The songs we made started being played in the basketball warmups. I came back to basketball in the middle of 12th grade but I wasn’t as sharp. Not being the player that I once was, I gravitated to music more.
I was in the Bay Area, where we got a lack of [music] infrastructure. Most Bay artists hit a ceiling, they get hot and the sound is very regional, so it only goes so far. Unless you speaking about pioneers like Too Short or E-40.My generation came up with the Hyphy movement and the HBK movement. I naturally didn’t make those type of records, What I always liked to do was rap.
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