![]() ![]() ![]() He’s married the bright melodies and pop hooks of Good For You with the trunk-rattling trap he explored on OnePointFive. Limbo represents a notable progression in this creative project. What Aminé wanted to do was make melodic, buoyant, left-of-center rap songs with broad appeal. It would become clearer what he wanted to do.” The process hasn’t been without its hurdles.Īround this same time, Aminé landed summer internships in New York, at Complex and Def Jam-and according to his friend and longtime tour DJ, Madison Stewart, performed a thorough survey of New York nightlife, tagging along to Stewart's DJ sets-"the entire summer.” Pasqué thinks these summers out east helped refine his creative partner’s vision.“Every time, he would come back a little bit more-I don't know how to describe it- direct. He even got a dog.Īnd after releasing his Technicolor major-label debut Good for You in 2017, and a quick follow-up project in OnePointFive just a year later, Aminé now finds himself on the verge of releasing his true sophomore album. He’s left his native Pacific Northwest, traveled the world, and settled in the land of Erewhon. In that time, the multitalented rapper has gone from a precocious, gap-toothed provocateur bouncing around in the back of his friend’s Honda to one of popular music’s most commanding and eclectic new forces, as comfortable on a track with lo-fi indie rockers Girlpool as he is with Young Thug. I literally played him ‘Woodlawn’ through the phone, and he was dancing in his cell.” It was a bittersweet moment, he says, but in its combination of pop and pathos, the song is characteristic of the career the rapper has forged since his grinning, Habesha visage first grabbed the public’s attention in 2016.īut the four years since Aminé’s career-catalyzing hit “Caroline” rocketed to the top of your summer party playlist (and to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100) feel a little more like 400. The song is dedicated to a close friend who became incarcerated last year: “It was heartbreaking, so I was trying to make a song for him. It’s a nimble anthem of the kind audiences have now come to expect from the 26-year-old artist, but one with a sober backstory. “Came a long way from that Woodlawn Park / Now, Young Aminé pushin’ ‘PUSH’ to start,” he boasts over rubbery 808s and a simpering flute sample on the song’s chorus. He’s talking about “Woodlawn,” a song named after the neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon, where he was raised, and the second track on his new album. "This shit has to be a hit and if it's not, I swear to God I'm going to go crazy,” Aminé says, laughing into the receiver from somewhere in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. ![]()
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