Tallassee native Luigi Fast’s always been into rap lyricists like Eminem and Young Jeezy.
But before he was Luigi, a young man known as Cory McGinnis took that love of rap into Air Force basic training and wrote a song while he was there. It got him into a bit of trouble when someone accidentally grabbed his bag in the cafeteria that had the song inside it.
“The TI (training instructor) got the satchel and said, ‘Whose satchel is this?’… I was sitting there eating and was like, ‘Please don’t be mine. Please don’t be mine.’”
Next thing Luigi heard was “McGinnis!” being shouted through the room.
Luigi got in trouble for that. Apparently songwriting and basic training don't mix. Soon afterwards, he had a command performance for a captive audience.
“They made everybody do pushups while I did the rap that I wrote,” Luigi said. “Then afterwards everybody was saying that if they had to do pushups, that was definitely worth doing them for.”
He served in the Air Force from 2010 to 2014.
Back home, Luigi is great buddies with fellow rapper Kaptain Cloud of Eclectic, who encouraged Luigi to keep writing and improving.
“I was working with (Cloud), and then started working with other people,” Luigi said. “A year and a half later, I reached out to (Noah Baker) and got on the first Alabama Massacre. I’ve been trying to push and evolve since then.”
He’s been involved with a mixture of different projects and styles.
“I don’t really put myself into any particular style of rap,” Luigi said. “I just consider myself an artist. Right now, I’m just trying to get some positive music going. Some feel good music going.”
He also gets into some spirituality in his music. “Releasing demons. Trying to get the demons out of the way,” Luigi said.
A music video was released back in May for Prattville's Kappa Carter song "Wavelengths," which Luigi was featured in. This is one to watch just to see Kappa with his "stack of cheese," and that doesn't mean cash in this instance. They went literal on that with a giant stack of cheese singles being tossed around onto a car's hood.
While Luigi's been recording, there haven’t been many live performances since that one in the Air Force. He did one recently for his song "Blue Skies" in an artist spotlight by the Montgomery Area Musicians Association, hosted at The Sanctuary.
Fortunately, no one had to do pushups as he sang.
So why Luigi Fast?
“My name is Luigi Fast, but I’m not Italian,” he said.
He’s named after a world-famous Italian-American plumber/video game hero, though.
“I went to Melbourne, Florida, and me and Kaptain Cloud did a feature with FJ Outlaw," Luigi said. "I made a joke that I was going to twist my mustache up like this (twisting the ends up), go in there and I’m going to kill it the first take.”
It was supposed to just be a joke, but Luigi (then known as Fast Lane) forgot he’d twisted his mustache up like that when he walked into the studio.
“FJ Outlaw says, ‘Man, you look like Luigi (from the Mario Brothers video game),” he said.
The “Fast” half comes from him being an adrenaline junkie. “Anything that gets my adrenaline pumping, I love it,” he said.
The name Luigi Fast got put on the song they did, and it stuck to him like his twisted up mustache.
Follow Luigi on Facebook under Luigi Fast, and Instagram under _luigifast_
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Shannon Heupel at sheupel@gannett.com.
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