RuslanSilvr
The post
@cutbymusic · Jun 10, 2026 · 6 slides
The interview
RuslanSilvr came out of a SCOUT leaderboard query on June 7, 2026, the highest artistry score of any artist below 20,000 monthly listeners. The call happened the next morning.
Where are you from, and how did you get into making music?
I was born in Minnesota, and it is kind of a weird story. I was there for about a year, then moved to Washington until I was five, then to North Florida, and that is where I grew up ever since. I would just say I am raised in Florida because it is all I have ever known. Growing up there in school I would think about a lot of melodies. I would be humming a lot, tapping my fingers on the desk. Eventually, when I was around 13 or 14, that turned into getting on FL Studio. Obviously it was ass at first. It took me a few years before I felt like I got the hang of it, or at least developed a better ear than I had before. And now I am here. That is really the origin story.
How did your approach to making your album Fighting the Pitcher differ from how you approach singles?
When I made that album I had enough songs in my discography to look back and realize there was a connection of sound that spoke to a story I wanted to hear at that moment, that headspace I was in. I found older collections of songs and newer collections, and I molded them together to create this world I want the listener to hear. Different from singles, I guess, because if I fuck with a single I am going to put it out. If I show my friends it, then I can show it to the world. I revolved the album around a feeling. I would not say it is nostalgia, more like coming of age. I could have released each song as a single and it probably would have done a lot better, but it makes more sense for when fans look back and see it was all together and molded as a story instead of separate.
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What artists have inspired your music the most?
Besides Jean Dawson, obviously. It is kind of weird because I do not sound anything like them, but Isaiah Rashad, The Sun’s Tirade, and The House Is Burning were very influential for me in my youth. ASAP Rocky’s first album, Live Love ASAP, had a specific song on it called Wassup, and that song literally almost made me make music, or made me realize it was what I wanted to do. I cannot explain it further than that. Those three albums, and obviously Blonde by Frank Ocean. The soundscapes. There is no way you can hate that.
Walk me through your creative process. How does something go from an idea or a feeling into a complete song?
More often than not it will just go a completely different direction than I wanted it to, and you kind of just have to follow it. Let’s say I have a specific synth sound in mind and I want to bring it out of my MIDI keyboard, some random preset I have, and I cannot find it. Then I find some other preset and think, hold on, this sounds kind of good too. That leads to building another melody, another track, putting different drums on it, and eventually it becomes its own thing, completely different from what I planned. When it does go how I planned, it is a banger. You enter this state. It is a very popular word now, but flow state. You go with whatever is with you at the moment.
When do you feel success toward a piece of music?
When I get the feeling I wanted from it. When I finish the song, listen the next day and get goosebumps, I know that is how I want my audience to feel about it. If I can get the feeling I got, then I know I can share it with the world and hopefully people take it that way too.
You are on a desert island and get to bring three albums. Which are you choosing?
The Sun’s Tirade by Isaiah Rashad. Pixel Bath by Jean Dawson. And Live Love ASAP. Those are my three.
You shoot a lot of content for your music. Which has been your favorite to film?
I do not know if I could list them, I feel the same way about a lot of them equally. But the one I went the most out of my way for was the music video for Whatever Reason. I flew out to Chicago because my bandmates originally lived in Florida and then moved there. I had this idea that I wanted to dance. Have you seen Miserable America by Kevin Abstract? There is a scene where he is dancing really weird and spontaneous, freely, without any care for how he looked or how people would perceive him. I wanted to add that into the video. The shot is in their basement in Chicago. I walk through a snow field, get into the house, walk down to the basement, and the band is there waiting. Right on cue the song starts and I am just dancing all over the place. I had to fly six hours for that, and I went at the worst time, during winter. It was negative five degrees. I am a Floridian, I do not think I have ever been in something that cold. We were out there for an hour and realistically only explored about twenty minutes of it because we kept running into shops to get tea and warm our hands. It is the most viewed video on my channel, around 42,000.
What can we expect coming up from RuslanSilvr?
A lot more music and a lot more visuals. Probably an album in the next month and a half to two months. I want to waterfall some releases. I am on my rush grind right now.
How long does it take to go from an idea to a finished piece of work?
Honestly kind of fast, because you have to get it done while you are feeling it. If you come back to it the next day, and I have done that plenty of times, you can continue it but that flow state is gone. Usually just to get the idea down takes me two to four hours. If I am not home I will go on my voice memos and sound like an idiot, trying to make bass noises while there are kids watching. Then I go home, listen back, and remember what I was trying to do. If I am at home I get straight on my laptop, open FL, and mess with presets until I get close to that sound. That two hour period is a deadline. I just have to get it out.
What is the message for those who are just discovering RuslanSilvr?
Welcome to Silver’s Verse, baby.