He has made an independent biographical movie, Ghetto Stories in October 2010, with Lil Boosie, based on their lives and lyrical themes. The album was released on November 19, 2013. The first single from the album "What I Do" was released on April 16, 2013. Webbie's fourth album Savage Life 4 is the fourth in the Savage Life album series. The album has currently sold over 50,000 copies. The first single from the album was "What's Happenin'". Webbie released his third studio album Savage Life 3 on November 15, 2011, under Trill Ent. As of 2020, it is Webbie's most successful song to date, peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top of the Rap Songs chart. Singles from his next album, Savage Life 2, include " Independent" featuring Boosie and Lil Phat. Trill began a deal to sign Webbie to the subsidiary label Atlantic Records & was successful. As Webbie's solo track " Give Me That" featuring Bun B was frequently featured in mixtapes, as a label Trill Entertainment was growing in popularity & was signed for a distribution deal at Asylum Records along with (Webbie).Īfter he was signed there, his major-label debut Savage Life was released in 2005, debuting at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart. He and Lil Boosie released Ghetto Stories in 2003 and Gangsta Musik in 2004. Webbie first appeared on Lil Boosie's album For My Thugz on the track "Gotta Get It" in 2001. Ever since he was five years old, he had been writing rhymes, and throughout his childhood he had become an avid fan of hardcore rap artists including Southern hip hop performers Master P, Eightball & MJG, the Geto Boys, UGK Along With DjTrillReed (Second Cousin). His mother died when he was nine years old so his parental care was split between his father and grandmother. Listening for it feels like pressing your ear to a wall, trying to make out conversation in the next room.Webbie was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Yeah, the whole dreamy-blurry-muffled-indie thing has been done to death, but there’s still a lovely dialogue taking place at the heart of this album. (He sings in Spanish, she sings in vowels.) This collaboration from electronic musician Helado Negro and ambient vocalist Julianna Barwick is haunted by the ghost of Brazilian tropicalia in all of the best ways - chords are strummed on nylon-stringed guitars, and vocal melodies are quick to dissolve in reverb.
Even at 3am in December, these songs still retain all of their colour and cool.
Poolside’s only crime is that they’ve coined a silly genre tag for all this: “daytime disco.” Pffft.
#LIL BOOSIE ALBUMS 2012 PLUS#
There are juicy synthesizers and cute falsettos, all locked to a mid-tempo grid, plus the most adorable Neil Young cover you could ever hope to hear (Harvest Moon). Leary says he’d like to produce tracks for rappers in the future, but for now he’s given us some spacious, stylish, contemplative music that needn’t be clogged with too many words.ĭoes the 21st century need its own lounge music? This Los Angeles duo answers a question that nobody was really asking with 16 brainless, toe-tappy dance tracks. Listening to the guy’s eight-track instrumental debut feels like navigating the charred ruins of a hip-hop album, as smoky synth textures curl around an 808 drum machine’s indestructible pulse.
This year, the label’s big find was Joshua Leary, a 22-year-old Brit who was uploading music to YouTube as Evian Christ while he spent his days studying to become a schoolteacher. Together, Wax and 100s prove that no matter where it originates, rap music is ultimately about the sparks that fly when a voice grinds up against a beat.Īnd now a quick round of applause for Tri Angle Records, the remarkably consistent electronic music label that scours the Internet for nerds making innovative music in the comfort of their bedrooms. He also has an expert partner in Joe Wax, a young producer whose otherworldly tracks for Cali duo Main Attrakionz have made that group’s moniker feel like false advertising. As he aspires to eclipse the cool of West Coast legends Too $hort and Snoop Dogg, you can hear him repurposing the cadences of Southern greats Pimp C and Lil Boosie.
This teenage rap rookie from Berkeley, California, is emblematic of the blur. As more rappers forge their identities online, the genre’s regional characteristics turn hazy. So here are my favourite underloved albums of 2012:Ĭloud rap - that new-ish strand of hip-hop defined by the smeared, diaphanous quality of its backing beats - might as well be a reference to the cloud that Wired readers talk about. It’s also our annual excuse to do the thing that all music scribes love to do: babble about what the world should be listening to. As the record biz slows down its release schedule over the holidays, we use the lull to highlight Lost Tracks, recordings that have gone largely overlooked in the past 12 months.
0 kommentar(er)
