Famous American rapper of Serbian origin, Mihajlo Perić, aka Valid, will hold his first concert in Chicago on Saturday, February 1st, at the Tunnel Vision club (2019 W.Division St.), and all interested parties can buy tickets HERE!
Perić, also known as the Serbian Eminem, has an impressive rap career behind him and is originally from Detroit, the city where the most famous white rapper of all time also emerged. Mihajlo’s nickname also comes from the fact that his songs are produced by Eminem’s producer, DJ Head.
Last year, he recorded a video with Eminem for the local MLB professional baseball team, the Detroit Tigers.
In a statement for Serbian Times, Mihajlo invited all Serbs and Balkans from Chicago and the surrounding area to his performance:
I invite my brothers and sisters to come to the concert. Let’s first have a drink of rakija, as is customary, relax, and then all enjoy the good music. This is my first performance in Chicago and I’m very excited because I know that many people of Serbian origin live in that city. I hope they will come to see me, and I will try not to disappoint them, he says.
Valid once intrigued the public by releasing a single for St. George’s Day called “6th of May” (May 6th), and the lyrics of this song talk about one of the greatest Serbian holidays, St. George’s Day.
In his new hit, Mihajlo says, among other things:
It was at dawn when my eyes opened
Turkish coffee on the stove, it’s time for a cup
I rarely smoke but I had to now
Pour some rakija, drink it
A sip
We celebrate being alive
Because we weren’t supposed to succeed
The verses that Mihajlo personally writes continue like this…
Yes, mom, you can flaunt with Louis
but I’ll play a song by Bijelo Dugme
For all those little bosses, we’ll rock like it’s St. George’s Day!
-My parents were born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. They are both Serbs and met here in Detroit in the late 70s, got married and started a family. Hardworking people, working class, that’s the best way I can describe my parents, Mihajlo, aka Valid, told Serbian Times.
He knows a lot about his parents’ origins, and he has been to Serbia twice so far.
-The last time I went there was in 2005, when I was eighteen. I visited Belgrade, Kraljevo, and Vršac, where my mother grew up. My father’s side of the family is mostly from Kosovo, which I visited on my first trip when I was only two years old. I am aware of what is happening to the Serbs in Kosovo, and my heart aches for it. All I can say about that is that I can only pray that one day this political violence will pass.
Mihajlo Perić Valid recently announced his first European tour, where he will perform in Serbia for the first time.
About his childhood, Mihajlo Perić says that he spent it hanging out with Serbian and immigrant children…
-My childhood was unique. I grew up with a lot of other Serbian, at that time “Yugoslav” children. My childhood was spent being surrounded by children from so many different cultures and backgrounds and I’m glad for that. I didn’t dance the kolo, but I liked it, and I still like our music… Šaban Šaulić, Arsen Dedić, Toma Zdravković, and I also really like the legendary Serbian jazz musician, Duško Gojković. I love our spiritual music, old songs that come straight from the heart.
Listen to the entire album “Peach Brandy” HERE!
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