A recent verse in his song Beat It he included a provocative verse mocking Queen Elizabeth II not long after her death - a joke he said sprung from conversations with friends and Nigeria’s past as a British colony.īut even with the controversy and criticism that stirred up, he says he’s not likely to change. He often wears a satin bonnet in his videos - a headcovering often associated with Black women - which draws some criticism. 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.
So we got an AI-modelled Liam to step in on some tunes that were originally written for a short-lived but much-loved band called Breezer.He first broke out of the “underground” - hitting traditional media spaces after already establishing himself on TikTok - last year with the hit Pizzazz.
“All we have now is Liam and his brother trying to outdo each other. “We just got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form,” says Bobby Geraghty, a 32-year-old singer, songwriter and producer. So who made it? How do you get a computer to sing like Liam? And why would you want to? But the eight songs, including Out of My Mind, Coming of Age and Forever, are practically indistinguishable from the real thing, with some seriously catchy melodies that give every post-What’s the Story album – not to mention the whole of Liam and Noel’s solo catalogues – a run for their money. It was created by AI – or at least, it’s an AI Liam Gallagher doing its best “hellooooos” and “sun-shiiiines” over a real band. A new “lost” Oasis album has been released, from the period between their third album, 1997’s Be Here Now, and their fourth, 2000’s Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. B efore you do anything else with your day, you need to listen to this.
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