Latest Release
- NOV 6, 2024
- 1 Song
- The Bigger Artist · 2017
- Hoodie SZN · 2018
- Artist · 2016
- The Bigger Artist · 2017
- Artist · 2016
- Artist · 2016
- Artist 2.0 (Deluxe) · 2020
- B4 AVA · 2021
- Hoodie SZN · 2018
- Artist 2.0 (Deluxe) · 2020
Essential Albums
- According to A Boogie wit da Hoodie, 2018’s Hoodie SZN album—which broke the naming convention of 2016’s Artist, 2017’s The Bigger Artist, and 2018’s International Artist—was him leaning into a harder sound, MCing a little more in line with what you might expect to come out of the Highbridge section of the Bronx. “It’s straight street,” A Boogie told Apple Music at the time. With Artist 2.0, however, the hoodie has come down, the MC returning to Artist mode, once again baring his soul through R&B melodies. He indulges this in many ways across Artist 2.0, interpolating lyrics from Fantasia’s “When I See U” for a few bars during “Cinderella Story,” singing a verse in Bronx-friendly Spanglish on the same song, or wailing on “Thug Love,” “I just wanna be a rock star like The Beatles.” Artist 2.0 is also rich with guest spots (Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, Gunna), but mostly they are vocalists of the same ilk: modern MCs gleefully toeing the line between rapper and singer. He makes room for two of them on “Anti-Social Gangsta (Numbers)” (Gunna, Roddy Ricch), but sounds equally comfortable next to proper R&B stars Summer Walker (“Calm Down [Bittersweet]”) and Khalid (“Another Day Gone”). It’s this kind of versatility that has given A Boogie his staying power, allowing him to outlast the many buzzing NYC artists that have popped up during his reign.
Albums
- 2020
- 2018
Artist Playlists
- Soft-spoken, hard-bitten bars from a melodic new voice in hip-hop.
- Beautiful Life All Stars, Mary J. Blige & Vado
More To Hear
- Five years ago, the Bronx’s finest kept his hitmaking streak going.
- New music from Victoria Monét, Saweetie, RMR, and more.
- Zane and the NYC rapper catch up on FaceTime to share new music.
- The rapper discusses Artist 2.0. Plus, the latest from Rema.
- The Bronx rapper on everything Artist 2.0.
- Juice WRLD, A Boogie and YNW Melly dominate the chart.
- “HML” ft. A Boogie wit da Hoodie is World Record.
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About A Boogie wit da Hoodie
In an interview with Apple Music around the release of his 2020 album, Artist 2.0, the Bronx-born rapper A Boogie wit the Hoodie described the liberation of changing things up. He’d been playing the guitar—no lessons, just wanted to see what came out. Every time he felt like he might be settling into a lane—something street, something melodic, something trap, something more classic—he challenged himself to find another wave. After all, isn’t that what hip-hop was about? That dynamic, that living culture? “It gets crazy when you experiment on your sound,” he says. “That’s when it gets interesting. And that’s why I was like, damn, people should really try this shit and have fun with their art. It’s not even music at the end of the day—it’s art, because people visualize in their head when they’re listening to it.” Born Artist Dubose in 1995, A Boogie—a nickname adopted in part from the 2002 movie Paid in Full—started rapping in that fertile, post-Drake, post-Future-and-Young Thug era where distinctions between divergent attitudes in rap—bars vs. melody, street vs. pop—blurred to their breaking point. He wasn’t an attention hound or big on social media and interviews—a reticence that made him a little more interesting than some of his peers, not to mention called back to the classic image of the stoic New York street rapper. His key tracks—“Jungle,” “Still Think About You,” “Numbers,” “Streets Don’t Love You”—don’t chart a course for hip-hop so much as leave a footprint: By the time he did it, he’s got something else on his mind.
- HOMETOWN
- Bronx, NY, United States
- BORN
- December 6, 1995
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap