Exclusive: The motivational music maker discusses "4eva N A Day," including the tape's most talked-about track, and whether or not he intends to metaphorically become "The Best That Never Was."

One of the South’s sonic architects, Mannie Fresh, recently expressed to HipHopDX the pride he feels from witnessing the musical expansion of one of his regional descendants, Big K.R.I.T., additionally remarking that the 25-year-old Mississippi rapper/producer was “more than just a Rap song.” 

Fresh’s high praise is shared by the hundreds of thousands of K.R.I.T. devotees who downloaded 4Eva N A Day on Monday (March 5th). The latest lauded all-original material mixtape from the King Remembered In Time (his third in just the last three years and ninth overall since Krizzle’s 2005 unofficial debut, See Me On Top), with its arrangement of live-instrument laced, but still sample based, sounds and real-life raps, currently has the Internet going nuts and is increasing the demand from fans to Lupe Fiasco levels that Def Jam Records finally release Big K.R.I.T.’s formal full-length debut, Live From The Underground.  

The day after his tape dropped, the rhyming reincarnate of the late Pimp C spoke to HipHopDX about the real reasons behind the delay of his album, and clarified which “label” was the actual intended target of his lament on industry politics, “Handwriting.” K.R.I.T. also touched on several other topics during his discussion with DX, including how his grandmother’s grounding affected his current personal path, and how a fellow ‘Sip resident’s memorable but stifled sports career might inspire his musical future.

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