By - EB
Alright if you haven't heard of this kid yet your obviously not a Hip-Hop head like us here at SGL. Jo-Vaughn Virgie Scott popularly known as Joey Bada$$ is a brooklyn young gun from the rap collective Pro Era. He may have popped on your radar back in June of 2012 when he dropped his first mix-tape, 1999 or when he followed that mixtape up with Rejex. Needless to say this 18 year old brooklyn native kills it. With a very young Jay-Z esque flow and an ear for good old hip hop samples and beats we may be in the presence of one of the next greats. You may have heard him on A$AP Rocky's debut album Long.Live.Asap on the almost 8 minute long track featuring Joey, Kendrick Lamar, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson and Big KRIT. At this point Joey isn't signed to any record labels and is keeping it independent for now, but has referenced on a few tracks including this one how he turned down an offer from Roc-A-Fella Records and the man Jay-Z himself.
The track below is his first single released of his debut LP and although his album didn't make it on our Most Anticipated Albums of 2013, it is definitely on mine. This video is pretty cool, it features Joey and some of his crew members walking around brooklyn in a half animated half real life editing scheme that shouts a sort of Kanye-ish production. In a way it kind of disappointing to see this underground rapper that always looks kind of grimy and dirty in his videos, so clean and well produced. However, every great rapper eventually ditches the rags and moves to the riches. If you haven't had a chance to check out his most popular video to date for the track Survival Tactics, you can take a look here. Let us know what you think of this video and what you think of Joey Bada$$ in general. Comment below.
