# @ourgenerationmusic on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=QnjJV6aCTBU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30838432-ourgenerationmusic-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-23T22:01:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Our Generation Music (@ourgenerationmusic) — https://gondola.cc/ourgenerationmusic

## Caption

#OGM #OurGenerationMusic #454

454's sound can be spotted from a mile away. Experimental, eclectic and existing in the spur of the moment, the Florida rapper displays a creative skillset few and far between. To SQUILLS, it's all about the process, taking his time is his creative superpower. That passion and care bleeds through projects like his latest 'CASTS OF A DREAMER' (2024), 'Fast Trax 3' (2022) and '4 REAL,' which was used as the backdrop to Frank Ocean's HOMER website back in 2021. Being co-signed by Frank is a legendary achievement in itself, but having your entire album soundtrack the aesthetic of any Ocean endeavor is a feat most artists can only dream of. 

From his roots as a skater to side-gigs as DJ gatorface, 454's rapping and production chops (which include iconic flips of 'Take Care' era Drake songs and indirect credits on tracks for Playboi Carti) are some of the most under-appreciated our generation has to offer. So here we are, showing love where it's long overdue. OGM host Hakeem Rowe chopped it up with 454 about all this and more in our latest Our Generation Music exclusive interview. 

This interview is powered by our sponsor, Bay Smokes! 🍃 Click the link here and use code "OGM" to claim your share: https://baysmokes.com/pages/free-thca-flower-gram-sample?snowball=OGM

Follow 454: https://www.instagram.com/squills/
Shout out 818 Skate: https://www.instagram.com/818skate/

CREDITS:
Hosted by: https://www.instagram.com/ayohakeem/
Directed/Shot by: https://www.instagram.com/toosam_/
Produced by: https://www.instagram.com/jonbarlas/
Graphic by: https://www.instagram.com/gothdre/
Research by: https://www.instagram.com/aidantheasset/, https://www.instagram.com/thomasgalindo3/

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STAMPS:
1:16: Thank you to our sponsor Bay Smokes 🙏
1:48 - Intros
3:05 - 454 on tour, playing at The Shrine in LA
4:20 - Collaborating with Denzel Curry
6:50 - Producing the beat for Playboi Carti’s “yungxanhoe”
8:50 - 454’s roots in skating
14:00 - Lil Wayne’s impact on skating
15:25 - 454’s skate trip to NYC, working at a skate shop
21:10 - New York lifestyle
25:20 - 454 production style
28:55 - Synesthesia, seeing colors in music
29:40 - Getting co-signed by Frank Ocean
35:27 - Sampling iconic songs from Drake, Brent Faiyaz, SZA
37:34 - 454 on ‘CASTS OF A DREAMER’
40:05 - The world-building of 454
43:11 - Working with his sister, Pig The Gemini
46:01 - The evolution of hip-hop lifestyle
48:03 - Niches overlapping, why people taking 454’s more seriously now than before
51:22 - Aminé taking 454 on tour
52:52 - 454’s elevator music DJ set
54:14 - GATORFACE (454’s DJ name)
55:26 - How 454 got the name “SQUILLS”
56:30 - Message for Our Generation

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- **Views:** 36,522
- **Likes:** 2,655
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- **Comments:** 151

## Tags

ogm, ourgenerationmusic, 454

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