You’ve been working with Future in the studio. You can’t leave until you finish writing to it.” I’m like, “I don’t even know what the fuck to say to this!” I’m always in the car…listening to some fucking Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes… Listening to some straight Jamaican shit… And then my dad used to make me write, as if it was homework… Like, “Start writing this song. Most likely my dad did have a really big part in me loving music. And that’s really what I really captured it from.ĭoes your father have anything to do with you falling in love with rap and hip-hop? But, what really made me do it was because my dad was a rapper in Florida when I was a kid. I really just like the aesthetic of the movie. Sin City is also one of my favorite movies that I’ve always as a kid rewatched it. He’s somebody I’ve always wanted to work with… I want to try and work with Post at least. I want to try and have Tyler, The Creator on it. Which artists will be on your sophomore album? If you fuck with me or X or our old sound, then I think that you’ll fuck with it in general. I really wanted to bring back the old me, which was really heavy bass, grunge, distortion music, kind of mosh pit music… I’m also going to be doing a lot of alternative sounds, you feel me? Things that sound different than what I usually do, but I think they really fit me in a way. What can fans expect on these upcoming projects? Because a lot of people actually fuck with the experimentation that I do… People usually know me for aggressive rapping and shit like that, but I also do a softer touch side. I just learned that I have to take it way easier on myself with how I look at my music. Since Stokeley dropped in 2018, what have you learned about yourself and your music? Because I haven’t really been out there for a while. Ski Mask The Slump God: We’ve just been masterminding and planning on what our next moves are and the best way to take our next steps. XXL: What have you been up to over the last few days? In the midst of readying his sophomore album, set to release around Halloween, Ski Mask speaks about his next chapter in music, his newfound love for MMA, staying inspired through the losses of Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion and much more. Fans can expect an album of the same flavor to arrive later this year. Producers Ronny J, Kenny Beats, John Cunningham, Slice and Nuri are the elected beat finessers who helped bring Ski Mask’s original bass-heavy, grunge music back into the fold. The effort, out June 25, showcases his dribbly flows and double-take metaphors. Ski Mask’s Sin City mixtape, named after his love for the 2005 movie and his father’s own rap name, Sin City 954, is his first solo release of the year. When he’s not bouncing between Apex Legends and Call of Duty or taking care of his French bulldog and two cats, the “Burn the Hoods’’ rhymer assumes the role of vampire, cooking up in the studio until the sun comes up. After taking some well-needed time to detox from the world, the 25-year-old rap juggernaut of Jamaican descent is now ready to turn himself and his music up again.ĭripping in a pair of Yeezy Foam Runners, a white tee with a straight-faced green-and-purple emoticon on it, his custom quarter million-dollar iceberg of a chain and, of course, a black durag to top off the fit, Ski Mask checks in with XXL via Zoom about his much-hyped resurgence. The effort’s standout songs, “Faucet Failure,” “Nuketown” with Juice Wrld and “Foot Fungus,” all charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and have since earned Ski platinum plaques, including two-times platinum for the former, to accessorize the walls of his Atlanta crib. 6 slot on the Billboard 200 chart that year. Before the hiatus, his gold-selling, debut album, Stokeley, reigned as one of the best projects of 2018, climbing into the No. native, born Stokeley Goulbourne, has served up a full pack of songs to his mosh-ready fans. Three drawn-out years have elapsed since the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It's comeback season for Ski Mask The Slump God. Possessing enough confidence to take on hell with a squirt gun, Ski Mask The Slump God is ready to mark his return to rap this year with his sophomore album.Įditor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.
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