Xanman – Pain In Me [mp3 Download]
Xanman drops off a new song titled “Pain In Me.” Available for download and streaming, the rapper is steadily building a name for himself and follows up his last record, 2020.
Xan, a 19-year-old born Haile Salaam, is the most versatile and experienced of the current wave of DMV teen rappers. Thanks to an uncle who drummed for the likes of D.C. go-go deity Chuck Brown and Roberta Flack, Xan found himself around high-profile music personalities at a young age — a highlight he mentions is meeting Lil Wayne at 12.
Those experiences influenced Xan to start trying his hand at producing and recording himself rap on his family’s computer; by the end of elementary school, he was regularly using Pro Tools. “I went through a lot of changes with my voice,” he says. “The only thing that I kept in mind is the punchline. As long as I’ve been recording, I’ve been using punchlines and similes and metaphors.”
Listen to Xanman last album Xan Servin 2 [Download] below.