Its been a banner year of sorts for the Gadsden, Alabama self described Slumerican: getting signed to Interscope and dropping Trunk Music 0-60, a consensus favorite as one of the better hiphop releases of the year. And that was just a mixtape that Interscope turned into an album.
This week he gets the attention of Rolling Stone's online Artist of the Week Spotlight. He shares his early brushes with hiphop in the backwoods.
"The first time I heard 'Paul Revere' I lost my mind!" he remembers. "But the thing is nobody told me it was hip-hop. I thought it was rock & roll. I was living in Alabama in the woods. I had a mullet, I was wearing a Swatch and listening to Guns 'n Roses. I didn’t know what it was but I knew I loved it – that 808 sound. It changed the way I heard music."
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