Fresh Batch: PAT. and 4D
Mini-Interviews with Rising Artists
Welcome to a new Midnight Donuts segment where we highlight upcoming talent in our space with mini-interviews! Today, we’re talking to PAT. and 4D.
This article originally appeared in Midnight Donuts #5 from October 2024. Want to read the most recent edition of Midnight Donuts? You can do so here!
PAT.
Where are you from?
Sugar Hill, Georgia
Use three adjectives to describe your music.
Uptempo, diverse, introspective
What got you into making music?
Growing up North of Atlanta and deeply invested in basketball, I was around a ton of hip-hop—trap especially. I loved it from an early age and to this day. When I started following Jesus in High School, I grew an even deeper love for the genre of Christian hip-hop. Both its sound and message really lift my spirit in ways that few other things do. 4D and I would always write little raps in our notes and show each other, or mess around freestyling late at night. I always had an ear from music and a musical family, but it wasn’t until Covid lockdown in 2020 that I finally tried to pick up a mic. I immediately fell in love with the process, and when I showed my boys, they gassed me up. Four years later I haven’t looked back. I’ve grown like crazy as an artist, producer, and engineer. At this point, my long-term goal is to be a full-time artist. I love doing this so much, I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon, whether I gain a large following or not.
What song would you recommend a first-time listener to hear first?
My discography is honestly so diverse that you’re not going to get a great idea of my sound in one track, but if I had to choose, it would be “TIMING.”
Favorite Bar?
“To my funeral, I show up in the grave clothes oh so suitable. I keep taking em’ off, daily I gotta take up my cross.”
The wordplay and analogy on this is crazy. By “my funeral” I mean dying to my old self when choosing to follow Christ. I am now a new creation. But “to my funeral, I showed up in the grave clothes”—y this I mean that I keep living in my old ways. “Oh so suitable:” Double entendre here… you wear suits to funerals, and it’s quite suitable that I keep living in my old ways. To quote Paul, “I do the things I do not want to do, but the things I do want to do I do not do.”
What’s next?
I’m dropping a single this month [October 2024]! Stay on the lookout.
Also, I’m finishing senior year at UGA, graduating in the spring!
4D
Where are you from?
Sugar Hill, Georgia
Use three adjectives to describe your music.
Christ-centered, energetic, honest
How did you first get started making music?
My best friend Patrick (PAT.) started making music after he suffered an injury from basketball. Long story short, he inspired me to try to make music of my own, and that’s how our careers started. We’ve been making music together ever since!
What song would you recommend a first-time listener hear first?
“STILL.” is my most recent track, and it’s one of my favorites. It’s a collab with PAT., and I’m really proud of the combination of catchy flows and complex rhyme schemes that I brought to my verse.
What’s your favorite bar you’ve written and why?
One of my favorite bars I’ve ever written is: “I guess I got the fire in me like I’m ghost rider / the Spirit write my lyrics He a Holy Ghost writer.” I love this bar because it’s both a double entendre and in context it’s a reference to Matthew 5:16, which says to “let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
What's up next for you?
Right now, I’m focusing on finishing up my senior year at Samford University! Lord willing, I will graduate in May and attend seminary shortly after. I hope to continue to make music, but the ultimate aspiration is to serve a local church as a pastor.
For more mini-interviews, catch Midnight Donuts #6 where we talk to Nikkuubeats and Chris Caro!
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