Check Out Lucas Batten’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lucas Batten.

Hi Lucas, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
I”m from Mobile, Alabama and I only started making music around my junior year of high school. Before that, I was making these sketch comedy videos on my YouTube channel called “Broughnut” and I wanted to be a YouTuber for a long time until I started getting burnt out coming up with more content every week.

I wanted to be a singer like Bazzi or Post Malone until I tried recording it and made some God-awful recordings and realized I probably wasn’t going to go anywhere with my singing voice. That’s kind of what put me onto rapping where I think it was easier for me to fit my voice into.

It probably took me like two years to get comfortable enough with my voice to post an actual song. I don’t really have any big ambitions with a career – the only thing I really am dead-set on doing is getting to play at Hangout Fest one day.

It’s this big music festival in Orange Beach, AL about an hour from my house that everyone in high school goes to. Everyone just gets drunk on a beach for the weekend around a whole bunch of other people so that’s like the one thing I really want to play one day.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
The only big challenge I had to get over was my voice and how I came across on a track. I was really insecure about how I sounded until like a year ago after I got enough validation from people around me to be like, “Okay I guess I don’t suck as much as I thought I did”.

I still don’t think I have a lot of confidence in how I sell myself or how I come off to other people. I can be really confident when I’m recording or rapping live but talking about my music is something way different. I think I’m probably just always unsure of how my own tracks sound to other people.

It also hard looking this good in this line of work because every time I get in the studio with my man Martin (who helps me produce), I always catch him stealing a look behind my back, and sometimes you just have to put your foot down and say “Hey bruh, enough with the lookin’, let’s get to cookin'”.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
So I rap on beats, which a lot of people do. I try to go for an Amine, Isaiah Rashad kind of feel but I’m just saying what I know because I’m not big on flexing things I don’t have.

I’m big proud of this EP I put out a few weeks ago called “Orange Beach”.

It has 6 tracks on it and the crowd favorite is Noxious with Olivia Ray on it. We filmed a music video together at our friend’s apartment and dressed to the 9s. And it was the first girl I got on a song.

Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
My favorite memory is when I was probably 6 or 7 and my grandma was cooking me okra for some reason and I just kept eating it and then she ran out. I don’t like okra anymore so I am very envious of that time when I could clean it out.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucas.batten_/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSLJ76zCTJU2YeUUbTZxzA
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/48DDPu4RnypKKKF6vVBlba?si=rnvTaOoHQ_Gu7trHdMQEMA

Image Credits
Bitty Burke and Drew Batten