Today we’d like to introduce you to Kenny Bagnis.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Kenny. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Growing up, I’ve always had a passion for music. I’d hear a song and immediately, it would stay glued to my brain for weeks to come. As I grew older, it became an obsession, I began to notice that every song I’d listen to would cause a wave of visual images into my brain which was basically ideas for music videos. Whenever I listen to new music, my brain would transport me to a different place and time where I was in control of what would happen. At age 14, I downloaded my first video editing software and began mashing up clips I liked according to the music, little did I know, that was the beginning of a journey I’ve been in for all these years. A few years later, I kept improving my video editing skills with a couple of Youtube channels under my name that we won’t speak of due to how embarrassing these videos were but it awakened my hunger. In mid-2017, I shot a cool test clip which was around 40-60 seconds long for my friend Yung Prozac. He wasn’t even rapping back then but he was pretty talented at dancing and mouth singing lyrics, so I decided to do a little edit of him with the song from Famous Dex “Get out my face”.
One week later, I get a call from Yung Prozac telling me a very small upcoming rapper named “Icy Narco” loved the video and wanted for us to create content together. As soon as I saw his page, even though he had around a thousand followers, I knew he had the look and potential to blow up so I decided to meet with him. After getting to know him personally, I took the decision to help no matter the cost because I saw potential in him when no one at the time took him seriously. I let him know I wouldn’t charge him a dime and that I was going to do everything possible to make sure he got the credit he deserved. We became great friends from that moment on and I recorded his first music videos, drove him to the studio here and there, even helping choose some instrumentals here and there. We were an awesome duo at the time – my editing skills which were some of the best in Miami at the moment and his enthralling charisma – before we knew it, the people we used to look up to were hitting us up to work with us.
As time went on, I decided to start recording our crazy adventures and I gained a pretty big following on YouTube. Looking back, I came to the conclusion that I had the talent for finding potential in others and their music before most people did. So, in late 2018, my friend Matias Villar and I decided to start an international rap channel in which we scouted out new rappers and promoted their music with my reach from YouTube. We were uploading new rap music from Germany, Mexico, Spain, and specifically Argentina ever since. What made the channel take off to the next level was a young rapper that goes by the name of “Dillom” from Buenos Aires Argentina. He hit us up on Instagram with only around 2-3 thousand followers at the moment showing us one of his first songs named “Drippin”. We heard it and immediately fell in love with the energy of the song and the vibe him and his crew “Talented Broke Boys” carried. The problem with most people is that they validate if a song is good or not depending on how many it has but if you truly have an ear for music you look beyond that… and that we did.
After posting the song, I promoted it in my main youtube channel and even did a reaction video to it and thats when the song took off. Plenty of subscribers started sharing it and it went viral all around Argentina. After that song, he dropped a music video named “Superglue” with fellow rapper Ill Quentin which went viral worldwide. YouTubers with millions and millions of subscribers were obsessed with the song reposting it on their pages and sharing it to all their viewers causing Lost Boys and Dillom to take off like we’ve never seen before. After that, everything was history, we have dozens of Artists from across the globe wanting us to post their music and Dillom and his crew are on tour nationwide. We never did this for the money, we did it for the passion for music Matias and I share. Most people would have seen these young talented kids as money signs but instead, we promoted them and by helping them grow we grew ourselves. I feel like this is something people need to learn because plenty of peoples mindsets are completely wrong and that’s why they struggle to make it anywhere in this industry.
We want to help young artists across the planet be heard. Many people have zero ideas on how much talent there is across the world outside of the US in the rap community and we are going to make sure to change that.
A special thanks to our co-owner Matias Villar because without him Lost Boys wouldn’t be where we are at.
Has it been a smooth road?
It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I naturally avoid interacting with others so putting myself out there hasn’t been easy. You learn to wear a mask and in a way create another “You” which sounds pretty weird. When I see myself on videos or pictures, I see myself as another person because if not I don’t know how I’d cope with the anxiety.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
We have HUGE plans for Lost Boys Label. Clothing and management is one of our greatest goals right now, but in a further term, we would want to have employees creating content for us at a larger scale, sort of like complex for example.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZi-mJYcObsi2MXmrIqN_iA?view_as=subscriber
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostboyslabel/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostboyslabell/?modal=admin_todo_tour
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/kennybagnis/
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