As he's on his first headlining tour of his career and selling out shows, like all three of his California dates.
Any rap fan can no longer dismiss him to the lower tier when discussing leaders of the new school.
It feels like a "Biggie, Jay Z & Nas" moment.
Sean Don has a catalogue and hits to back him up as the underdog indeed becomes the wolf.
"I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man" - Jay Z, Diamonds From the Sierra Leone Remix.
Besides his statistics musically his run business wise is second to none
If you listen to his music and not just "skim through it"
The undisputed king of children’s television at the time was Dan Schneider
He was on an unforeseen run of success after success starting with All That, which became a breeding ground for talent (Kenan Thompson - SNL, Nick Cannon - Wild N Out) Kenan and Kel, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, iCarly and my favorite show at the time, Victorious
This is not an article about comparing.
It is tempting to try and find parallels between greats but he is not the next Sondheim, Schwartz or ____.
He’s the first, the only Lin Manuel Miranda.
There has been a shift.
In the era of Method Man and The Firm, legendary group and Grammy nominated Cross Movement was dismissed by the mainstream as lame and who are only trying to criticize.
Lecrae had to battle that stigma as well but after becoming a multi Grammy winner and Anomaly went God independently he signed with Columbia.
His Reach Records' artist Andy Mineo has a friendship with Sway and has been featured on RapFix and Sway's Universe.
From a ten year period (1989-1999) Disney had unparalleled success.
Box office records, critical acclaim, Academy Awards.
This period of time was called the Disney Renaissance
On The Life of Pablo Kanye West responds to his detractors missing his more soulful and political activist side.
And even Big Brother Jay Z offered more validity to those cries by saying ‘We miss the old Kanye’
So what does this mean? Is there an etherial ‘old’ Kanye that was a backpacker who was a lovable producer-rapper
This thought process is dismissive forgetting all that came before this current iteration of Yeezy.
Hailing from Chatham’s 79th Street Chance The Rapper, born Chancellor Bennett, has had quite a run of success and it is more impressive when taking in the fact that he has accomplished so much without assistance of a major label.
After going on tour with Childish Gambino and with the release of his widely successful mixtape Acid Rap he stereotypically would have signed to one of the many labels that were courting him but instead he started his own path by remaining unsigned.
After parting ways with fellow producer, Noah 'I-Create' Nwachukwu, DroydDidDat expanding his sights to Asia inked a deal with SM Entertainment coming back from Korea as a multi Platinum selling producer with placements on K-Pop supergroup EXO's LOTTO & a remix on Red Velvet's project. In this exclusive phone interview we tackle various topics like timing, work ethic, leaps of faith, spirituality, mental health and more.
Paired with the limited edition Boys Don’t Cry magazine Blond has caused waves & shook up the industry.
As a visual album Endless essentially fulfilled any contractual obligations Ocean made with Def Jam.
Blond released a day after topped Billboard’s 200 while Endless is ineligible for Billboard Chart.
ELVNTWNTYSVN 