Young Krew drops its hip-hop beats on iTunes
Sophie Singer
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: Features
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"I started playing piano when I was in second-grade and composing music when I was in fourth grade," Williams said.
With a rock 'n' roll influence from throughout high school, Williams has taken a different perspective on music and has begun to experiment with other areas of music, such as hip-hop.
While Williams started playing music early in his life, Lite got a guitar from Walmart during tenth grade and started "messing around with Garage Band."
"We started putting music together for fun," Lite said. "But we started to take our music a little bit more seriously when people started asking where they could listen to our songs."
One of their most popular songs, "Thirstay Thursday," has been played at fraternity parties and also in an independent film in California called, "The Hook Up." The song is the title track of their album.
The meaning behind their songs relates to having fun in life and creating beats that are catchy and unique.
"Our music is enjoyable," they say. "It can relate to a mainstream audience."
Young Krew has been heard by students around campus.
"They have amazing beats and their lyrics are constantly stuck in my head," Randi Lobstein, a sophomore early childhood education major, said. "It seems like things have already gone further than they expected in such a short amount of time."
"My Heart Stops," another popular song, has an additional singer within the chorus. Femke Ballard, a sophomore history major, said: "Working with them (Williams and Lite) was so much fun. It really started on a whim; Austin just asked me to sing in a chorus, then all of a sudden I was singing a verse as well."
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