jaboukie Younger-White lately introduced his long-awaited debut album, All who can’t hear should really feel, which is out this Friday by way of Interscope Data. Forward of the discharge, the artist has shared the venture’s remaining pre-release single, “26.”
Following the album’s beforehand launched “BBC,” “GONER,” and “not_me_tho,” “26” is fleeting and braggadocios, a rap observe constructed on the stress between a singsong chant and a maxed-out bassline so monumental and abrasive it might blow a set of automotive audio system. Test it out under.
Relating to the observe, jaboukie stated, “I discovered myself incorporating the sonics of music that I grew up with feeling challenged and oftentimes alienated by, and recontextualizing these sonics in a method that gave me empowerment and made me really feel nearer and extra accepted in those self same soundscapes I grew up in.
“‘26’ lyrically and flow-wise is a riff on Buju Banton’s ‘Growth Bye Bye,’ a homophobic anthem that has been a blemish within the historical past of dancehall music. Though the tune is 36 seconds, I consider it as packing an enormous punch like a shot of Wray & Nephew.”
This week won’t solely mark jaboukie’s debut album launch, but in addition the announcement of his debut dwell music performances. Catch jaboukie performing his music for the primary time ever, with some dwell comedy as effectively, this fall in New York, Los Angeles, and his hometown of Chicago. Public on-sale begins this Friday at 10 am domestically.
jaboukie, a 28-year-old Chicago native, is finest generally known as a slapstick comedian, but in addition for his TV writing (Huge Mouth, American Vandal) his stint as a correspondent on The Each day Present, numerous performing roles (Black Mirror, C’mon C’mon, Rap Sh!t, Solely Murders within the Constructing), and a number of other Twitter suspensions following impersonations of CNN, Donald Trump, and the FBI.
However after Interscope CEO John Janick heard some scrapped songs jaboukie had labored on for a venture paying homage to the late Juice WRLD, and found that he’d banked dozens of demos he recorded at a house studio he constructed himself, Janick drew up a file deal. The result’s All who can’t hear should really feel.
Purchase or stream “26.”
