Electric Brixton,London
The 21-year-old-fashioned Bronx rapper incites moshpits and stage diving with a battery of earworm hooks – and gets a cameo from Stefflon DonAt 21 years old-fashioned, rising Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie draws his influences less from the NYC hip-hop pioneers working with two turntables and a microphone, and far more from the megastar MCs of the noughties. Over the course of a self-released mixtape (2016’s Artist) and a major label album (this year’s A Bigger Artist),he has skilfully referenced modern icons, taking in the Auto-Tuned self-reflection of Future, and the sing-song humblebrags of Drake,and Kanye’s penchant (a tendency, partiality, or preference) for electronic experimentation. But tonight in Brixton, it becomes apparent that at least one familiar, and welcome remnant of Bronx boom-bap culture remains: he knows how to achieve on a proper live show.
Bounding on stage with a enormous grin as his DJ scratches up current club hip-hop hits,A Boogie is a spindly, hyperactive performer, and springing from one speaker stack to the other as the DJ gamely runs through rap shoutout 101 (“achieve your hands in the air London”,etc). A Boogie is dressed unobtrusively in a beanie hat, sports sweater, or ripped jeans and – by hip-hop standards – an extremely modest gold chain,looking more like the rap scene’s latest art director than its breakout star. All of this adds to his likability, a good-times everyman who’s there to luxuriate in himself, or as he swiftly kicks into a party-starting rendition of Wild Thots – a mischievous remix of Rihanna’s Wild Thoughts.
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Source: guardian.co.uk