Rapper/producer Russ is greatest identified for releasing commercially profitable singles similar to “Losin Management,” “Finest on Earth,” and “Handsomer.” The Diemon collective member additionally made headlines for his controversial feedback.
Again in January 2017, Russ blamed the present state of rap music on different producers “making wack s###.” These remarks led to beatmakers like Metro Boomin, Frank Dukes, and Cardo Acquired Wings capturing again on the New Jersey-born entertainer on social media.
Russ additionally angered some followers and trade friends when he went on an anti-drug Twitter rant simply days after Lil Peep (born Gustav Elijah Åhr) died from a drug overdose in November 2017. That prompted dangerous blood with Lil Peep’s collaborator, Smokepurpp.
A brand new dialog with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 could shed some gentle on Russ’s frame of mind across the time of his contentious quotes. The Santiago album creator revealed that alcohol consumption performed a job in his actions throughout his profession.
“I used to be ingesting lots, and it was simply because after I first began making music, that’s what it was. The studio was a celebration. You’re smoking weed, you’re ingesting. And so I might drink after I was within the studio. It simply felt regular. It felt common,” recalled Russ.
He continued, “However then I used to be ingesting earlier than interviews, and that’s how plenty of these interviews went left. I used to be fairly hammered in a few of them. As a result of it’s all that’s popping out, however I by no means had an issue. I wasn’t waking up and like, ‘I would like a drink.’ I might simply drink in sure conditions, however that in and of itself was a problem.”
“And it was simpler to only try this than truly be genuine and be like, ‘ what? I’m nervous, I’m feeling insecure, I’m all this stuff.’ And now it’s, yeah. I’m not inflexible to the purpose the place it’s like, ‘I cannot drink.’ It’s, ‘I’ll have a drink at any time when I wish to have a drink.’ It’s simply now I don’t wish to have a drink after I wished to have a drink again then,” Russ defined to Zane Lowe.
Santiago by Russ got here out at the moment (August 18). The 13-track venture, impressed by the e book The Alchemist, follows extra than a dozen earlier studio LPs by the 30-year-old recording artist. He acquired a Platinum plaque from the RIAA for 2017’s There’s Actually a Wolf. Plus, 2018’s Zoo and 2020’s Shake the Snow Globe went Gold.
