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Do they help with the music production or is that all Teezo? There's always friends and different collaborators popping up in your videos and you perform with a band sometimes. I called my friend and I was like ‘yo the talent curve out here is so tremendous, like everyone’s so good.’ But I have this appreciation for it because it has so much to do with my character development. In Beaumont, me and my friends just wanted to have a show at SXSW in Austin or be on Say Cheese TV, so to actually go to LA was pretty surreal. I probably didn’t get out of Texas until like 2019, then I went to LA. I do all the stuff that Beaumont people like to do.

Like John’s Seafood to get me some salt and pepper chicken, or like give me some Willy T's Gumbo. Every time I go back I’m like a complete Beaumonster, I gotta go everywhere. Once I left Beaumont it made me really appreciate that there’s no other place like your city.

Other people were playing basketball and baseball. Instead of saying to my parents like: ‘hey he knows what he wants to do! You should water this plant’, she was actually like trying to see what the hell was going on in my house.

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And I wrote about how I just learned how to chop and screw music the day before. My class was asked to write down what we were passionate about or something like that. I started mixing around fourth grade, I remember because my teacher wrote a letter home to my parents about it. He showed me how to DJ, now he’s kinda like my booking manager. Your dad’s a DJ right? So you were surrounded by music from a very young age? I think that was like the first thing, unless you want to call turntables an instrument. Teezo: They have this thing called Sam’s Club everywhere in the US, it’s like this wholesale warehouse, but they have like a piano that sits in the middle of their store to test out.

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So it’s full circle.ĭo you remember the first instrument that you ever picked up? Teezo: I was going for Mass Communication, which is ironic because now I think I’m doing mass communication for sure with my art. But when they ask now I’m like: ‘I’m a full-time artist’. I was in school at the time because I thought it was what I was supposed to be doing, kind of something to tell my family on Thanksgiving when they ask what I’m up to, you know. In 2016 I decided to take it by the horns and really take this thing for what it is and just engulf myself in it. I think my first memory is music, so it’s always been there. Teezo: Oh, music has been a part of my life since as long as I can remember.

But my timeline was really this: artist turn video director, turn artist. My origin story came so in the moment that I didn’t really get to track it.

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He’s what you would call a trial and error artist. We caught up with the artist to find out more and talk Texas, tunes, and Willy Ts.Ĭan you tell us how Teezo Touchdown came to be? But his cowboy-hat-wearing, lolly-pop sucking alter-ego, Eugenius Hanes, who pops up in Teezo’s video skits from time to time, takes credit for a lot of the creativity: “Teezo’s like an empty glass you know? He just waits for me to come in and I flood him with the ideas,” he says in a recent clip.ĭespite his prolific output, and the fact that he now has support from the likes of Tyler, The Creator, Lil Nas X, and Chance the Rapper, much about Teezo Touchdown remains shrouded in mystery, including his real name. Teezo is a natural when it comes to melodic hooks, and has a truly unique ear for harmony, with most of his tracks featuring deliciously layered vocals. Despite the setting, each visual (directed by the multitalented Teezo) bursts with the vibrancy of his extravagant clothing (think Prince and Rick James with glitter-smeared arms and nail-studded hair) and the bright notes of his melodic 80s-inspired rap ballads. 2019 saw the release of his first single “Slice” but it was his July 2020 follow up, “Strong Friend” – an infectious emo-pop ode to companionship – that proved to be the first significant step on his journey to the top.Ī stream of singles quickly followed in the months after, including the mellow “Careful”, and the heavier, punk-rap “SUCKA!”, each accompanied with a video shot in front of a rusty, graffiti-covered, garage somewhere in Beaumont. “Don’t worry, you’re early”, reads the Instagram tagline of Teezo Touchdown, the Texan artist who wants to let you know he’s destined for superstardom.

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