![]() ![]() For his part, he says the interactive nature - and ensuing glut of up-and-coming-rappers - is fundamentally altering what rap is and can be. The impact of success on an app wasn’t exactly easy to explain. I’m 23 now, so I’ve been rapping since I was ten, since that day.” ![]() “So that night I went home, started writing raps, and I’ve been rapping pretty much ever since. I was like, ‘This is amazing and I need to do this,’” he said. When he delivered his first verse though, that all changed. When the teacher asked for a volunteer to rap the new Drake part, he put up his hand even though he didn’t feel any real interest in being a musician though he had experimented in choir before, played piano and went through a couple years of flute, he never found much passion there. That’s the music that I grew up on.”Īt ten, he was onstage at a middle school concert, performing the Young Artists for Haiti version of K’naan’s Wavin’ Flag that released earlier that year. He used to sing it in my ear to get me to go to sleep. ”He used to sing Biggie to me when I was like a baby,” he said. What helped some of what he referred to as “little culture shock” was his dad - a huge fan of West Coast hip hop, who indoctrinated him into the genre before they even arrived. Born in Lagos, he moved to Vaughn at nine. I’m just the first person to rap about my anxiety, and my depression and my mental health things.” I’m not the first person to rap about anxiety or depression or mental health things. “I benefit from the era I’m in for sure, but. “All the greatest rappers - the Kendricks, the Coles, the Drakes, the Nases, the Tupacs, the Bigs - these are things they rapped about, just in their own particular way, and the way it relates to them,” he said. To him, it’s just a - decidedly slight - evolution of the genre. Pizzazz alone garnered millions of streams, and at least partially led to Mind Check 1-2,1-2, the short documentary centred around his engagement with mental health that premiered at this year’s Hot Docs festival. Now I’m picking up the pieces of my spirit with some oven mitts.” “Yesterday’s depression makes tomorrow’s hits.” And in a TikTok post on his most recent birthday he goes even darker, and more direct: “I lost the need for celebration of self back when I almost cut the lights out. “Check the calendar for every hour miss,” he raps in I Pray. “Every hour spent in isolation makes it easier to face annihilation,” he says in that video. The mental-health anthem detailed his own long struggles with anxiety and depression, spoken about without adornment or deflection. Song of the Day is created by Sheldon Zoldan, and produced by Pam James for WGCU.He first broke out of the “underground” - hitting traditional media spaces after already establishing himself on TikTok - last year with the hit Pizzazz. The song title, "What's Love Got to Do With It?" became the title of her 1993 biopic. Turner hated the song and she only recorded it because her manager insisted.Īll the song did was go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and win Grammys for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Vocal Performance in 1985.Īt the time, Turner was the oldest woman, at age 44, to have a number one hit and the longest time between number one hits. Graham Lyle and Terry Britton wrote the song of the day," What's love got to do with it?" Several artists, including Donna Summers, turned it down. She starred opposite Mel Gibson in "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome." Her 1984 album, "Private Dancer," was #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. Turner made a successful comeback in the 1980s as a solo act. The marriage was filled with physical and emotional abuse, but it also was filled with hit songs like "River Deep Mountain High" and "Proud Mary." They married in 1962, a stormy relationship that ended in divorce in 1978. Turner was only 18 when she began her singing professionally under the name Little Anne. She sang and danced through 18 songs each night. The tour was a critical success, as well. She played her final concert, May 5th, 2009. She played to about a million people in 84, sold out concerts in North America and Europe, grossing $130 million. She finished it at age 69 with her 50th Anniversary Tour. Tina Turner knew how to closeout a career.
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