Kyle Norville, better known by his stage name KyNoel was born on May 27th 1990 in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Flatbush, Norville now resides in Bedford-Stuyvesant. With his bachelors in English from Brooklyn College, he currently works as an administrative assistant in a law firm. With an up and coming official project in the works, Norville shares his work on his Soundcloud account.
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At the age of 16, Norville discovered that his pursuit for a rap career came from his love for poetry. With the encouraging words from his classmates in high school, Norville used his poetic abilities and began to rap because he was told that his spoken words sounded like he was rapping.
The rap and hip-hop culture is strongly associated with gangs, drugs and violence. Many rappers embrace the culture with gritty street styles and profanity in their music. Norville tackles the culture differently, keeping it clean.
“What I have that others don’t is I don’t curse at all, it’s interesting because I can stand next to another rapper and throw better punchlines while keeping it clean and appropriate, the raunchiness isn’t a lane for me, that lane is already filled, I show a different appreciation” said Norville.
With recorded tracks under his belt, Norville has yet to release a full put together project. His debut mixtape entitled “Indigo Dark Child” is in the making. Norville’s infatuation with the color plays a huge part for getting a spot on the title.
“It changes over time, what you have is one color and what it is will turn to something else, it’s a metaphor for black struggle, it changes throughout time but the nature is still there,” said Norville.
For serious topics such as black experience and black lives, he uses his poetic justice to express the struggles and sends messages in his music. The rapping he does centralizes on his life, cultural issues, and shares his lenses on the world with his listeners.
“I talk about what I see, the books I read, what I know, my childhood, I tell no drug or gang culture because I don’t know that life. My music always has a piece of me somewhere in it,” said Norville.
Knowing the focus of the mass artists are different, Norville chooses to maintain in his own lane of being aware and standing ground for all that’s happening around him. He wants to use the platform he stands on to speak upon the truths of world.
“I don’t relate to trap music, it’s fine to have in music but in actuality we are being killed, we aren’t unified, I’m very aware we struggling, that’s the now,” said Noville.
Raw performances and taking notes from the responses of the crowd, Noville believes that performing is what he enjoys best. He’s performed multiple times at the Nuyorican Café and at different colleges such as Brooklyn College, City College and Kingsborough Community College. Giving the crowd all of him, Noville truly puts on a show.
“I perform this song “Ghouls” on the ground for the whole song, it’s about a dying body and its last words. The second verse is when I rise again, it’s a phoenix, a rise from the ashes and I display that,” said Noville
To entertain and do what they love is what drives rappers to keep on a steady grind but for Noville to educate is what keeps him writing rhymes.
“My goal is to be an educator, I want to teach others all I know, music is my plan B but before anything I want to use creativity to educate,” said Noville.
Killing his competition with clean lyrical abilities, Noville unifies himself with the hip-hop community to share, educate and destroy.