HOUDINI Exclusive – An Interview With Pink Boy

Slug takes a quick sit-down in the DMs for an interview with the elusive Pink Boy, an up-and-coming artist lurking the eastern coastlines of Texas.

Preface

This is a HOUDINI Magazine exclusive interview with Pink Boy! This interview was conducted by Salty P. Slug via Instagram DMs in August of 2026. We sent Pink a number of questions and let him choose which ones he'd answer. Note that we've lightly edited his responses for punctuation and readability.

Big love to Pink Boy for taking time to answer the Slug's questions. We recommend you pair this article with the Pink Boy Companion Playlist on our YouTube channel.

How long have you been making music? Where'd the passion start?

Pink Boy: "I've been making music for probably like 5 years now. I honestly always played instruments… I went to a Waldorf school from kindergarten to 5th grade. They focused more on arts than regular public schools. I played violin from like 3rd to 5th [grade], and then my mom’s boyfriend showed me a live performance of the song "My Generation" by The Who, and I knew I wanted to learn the bass."

"I eventually began recording on Garage Band late in high school, and then really started in 2022. Now, for the past two years, I've been learning guitar."

Who/what do you look to for inspiration when creating new shit?

Pink Boy: "I listen to a variety of stuff, or at least I try to… I always kinda do things my way, and I've been tryna be a better 'student' of music."

"X, Peep, Current Joys, and Yung Bans heavy influenced me in high school. I'm the type of person to find one song by someone and stick to it. However, these artists I actually listen to more of their discography, which is rare for me."

"If I could put all my money on a new artist for making a huge impact, and one that I would support, it would be psychi. I talked to him briefly years ago and found out he self-produced his music. That's why I started making my own beats about 2 years ago and one of the reason I try not to sample… gotta try to one up the homie. :))"

What's your ultimate goal with putting your music out there? Where do you want it to go?

Pink Boy: "Honestly I don't really wanna be known. I've said for a couple years that it would be real nice to make it just a lil more in music, then be able to have a 'cabin in the woods' setup… just drinking and smoking all day, with some physical activity like gardening or something, and having every chance to make music. Really get lost in the sauce, but in a good way, I think."

Artist's rendering of Pink Boy at his cabin in the woods.

Are you a music gearhead? If so, what kind of gear are you into?

Pink Boy: "Hahaha I'm actually not, or at least not yet… like, to put in perspective how slow and how self-taught I am, I'll tell you two things."

"For the first year of recording music I would play a beat off a speaker, record it through a mic, and that would be the beat. I had no idea you could download YouTube beats."

"It wasn’t until like 2023 that I realized that I never set my projects to the beat's tempo. Garage Band auto-sets it to 120bpm… This meant that if I made a song 140bpm and I wanted to copy-and-paste the chorus, I would have to drag it and try to get it as close-to-perfect as possible. So a lot of my older songs are technically not on beat, they're milliseconds off. Sometimes I'd just record a full song in one take to not have to do that."

What's your desert island piece of music gear?

Pink Boy: "I just need a laptop and a Blue Yeti or Audio Technica mic."

Artist's rendering of Pink Boy cooking up on a deserted island.

What's your favorite sample to use in your production?

Pink Boy: "I try my best not to sample and [...] I'll give you one reason why. Not only do I feel like there is too much sampling nowadays, which has lead to so many songs being good because of the sample or production, but it's kind of a lame way to get a good song, or like half-assed. We also live in a time where so many musical instruments are available through technology. There has never been a time to 'sample less' than ever before."

"There has never been a time to 'sample less' than ever before."

"Like, early hip-hop thrived off samples 'cause it was so new and fresh and creative, and it was true talent… You had to find records or just love music to even be able to find fun samples. And not everybody or every store had the record you were looking for. There was just many more levels to the process before, which made it a true art form… samples are dope though."

What song would you put on for some special one-on-one time with your girl?

Pink Boy: "Hahaha, I don't got one, but I'll put all the new homies on real game... Harvest Moon by Neil Young."

What's your favorite song you've ever made?

Pink Boy: "Lowkey gotta couple, just 'cause they get drowned out with the shite music I make – Casca, sad trap, 17 freestyle, twacked."

Any shoutouts you want to give?

Pink Boy: "Shoutout to wakeuptimmy aka voidboy and my brother, Eli E."

Thanks again to Pink for sitting down and answering our questions! You can check out our other Pink Boy article here. Follow him on Instagram, YouTube, Soundcloud, and anywhere else you stream music.