{"id":2519,"date":"2020-02-29T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2020-02-29T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:12:50","slug":"a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-artist-2-0-its-straight-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie &#8211; Artist 2.0 \u201cIt\u2019s Straight Street\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to A Boogie wit da Hoodie, 2018\u2019s Hoodie SZN album\u2014which broke the naming convention of 2016\u2019s Artist, 2017\u2019s The Bigger Artist, and 2018\u2019s International Artist\u2014was 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. \u201cIt\u2019s straight street,\u201d. With Artist 2.0, however, the hoodie has come down, the MC returning to Artist mode, once again baring his soul through R&amp;B melodies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2520\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2520\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/A-Boogie-wit-da-Hoodie-Artist-2.0-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/A-Boogie-wit-da-Hoodie-Artist-2.0-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/A-Boogie-wit-da-Hoodie-Artist-2.0-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/A-Boogie-wit-da-Hoodie-Artist-2.0.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geo.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/artist-2-0\/1498673868?mt=1&amp;app=music&amp;at=1010lLq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stream A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie &#8211; Artist 2.0<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He indulges this in many ways across Artist 2.0, interpolating lyrics from Fantasia\u2019s \u201cWhen I See U\u201d for a few bars during \u201cCinderella Story,\u201d singing a verse in Bronx-friendly Spanglish on the same song, or wailing on \u201cThug Love,\u201d \u201cI just wanna be a rock star like The Beatles.\u201d 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 \u201cAnti-Social Gangsta (Numbers)\u201d (Gunna, Roddy Ricch), but sounds equally comfortable next to proper R&amp;B stars Summer Walker (\u201cCalm Down [Bittersweet]\u201d) and Khalid (\u201cAnother Day Gone\u201d). It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to A Boogie wit da Hoodie, 2018\u2019s Hoodie SZN album\u2014which broke the naming convention of 2016\u2019s Artist, 2017\u2019s The Bigger Artist, and 2018\u2019s International Artist\u2014was 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. \u201cIt\u2019s straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[109,110,111,112,113],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-new-music","tag-artist","tag-boogie","tag-hoodie","tag-straight","tag-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}