Roddy is by far the favorite artist coming out of Young California in 2020 and here’s why. Check out his mini-concert live from West Coast Customs with 1500 or Nothin playing the background.
Continuing with the SXSW footage we all want, NPR had Vince Staples at one of its showcases in Austin last week, and now we get the professional footage from the crew. In all he performed 13 songs across a 40-minute set performing all his bangers from the last two projects. The crowd was feeling it, so will you! Aye!
NPR sat down with IAMSU! and the Bay Area rapper had just as many questions for Ali astheye had for him. The three of them spoke about not putting anybody on a pedestal and what would happen if more people in hip-hop brought their moms to the situation and a lot more. Click play and listen below.
The 21-year-old spoke with Microphone Check in Austin, Texas, during SXSW a couple days before the release of his second major label album. He says he feels like I Don’t Like S—, I Don’t Go Outside is really his first album, though. “This is the first thing that I’ve said that I fully stand behind, like the good and the bad of it,” he says. “I’ve never been this transparent with myself or with music. I’ve never been behind myself this much.”
Last year you heard Terrace Martin’s work on YG’s album, Ninth Wonder’s compilation, Big K.R.I.T.’s Cadillactica and, just this week, a new song by Kendrick Lamar, called “The Blacker The Berry.” In the space of less than six months in 2014, the LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist also put out a full solo album, ‘3ChordFold Pulse,’ and a Christmas project called ‘Times.’ Check out his interview below.