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Toward the tail-end of Boogaveli’s story, Sharif walks back into the concert room and stamps the two-year tenure as a “terrible era” where he would sometimes do shows in New York and head to overnight shifts in Jersey on the same night.īy the late 2010s, Sharif was immersed in the Jersey underground scene, doing ciphers, performing at shows, and collaborating with artists to build his buzz as a solo artist after leaving Strange Colors and Age of Extinction, two Jersey-based crews that have since disbanded. He says Sharif “got away with not doing work” because he was so jovial that no one complained about him.

ANDRE RUSH SHIRTLESS MOVIE

Boogaveli suggests a particular song, and Sharif retorts, “hell no, this is a fuckin’ party.” You can tell this is a routine that they have down to a science.īoogaveli tells me during soundcheck that he met Sharif while they were both working at a movie theater as cleaners. When he’s not feeling it, he quickly scraps it. The two have a simple formula: When Sharif considers one of Boogaveli’s suggestions, he raps a bit of the track and then OKs it.

In the Elsewhere greenroom before his performance, New Jersey rapper 89 The Brainchild and rapper/producer DJ Kohai, the other half of their four-man Strangers Live radio show, are in the room while Boogaveli and Sharif pick songs for the set.

That’s why he’s so thoughtful about his live show. New Jersey Celebrates First-Ever 'Bruce Springsteen Day' to Mark His 74th Birthday But to me, A Beautiful Mind is a real thing where people embrace ‘I don’t think like this guy, I don’t see stuff like this guy. In this world, they make it seem like it’s a bad thing, especially when you’re growing up. Growing up, I felt different than other people with how I looked at stuff and expressed myself. And that a lot of things with the rest of me. “It’s only one of you in the world, so you got to fully embrace it.

“ always preached being confident,” he says over a hearty helping of rice and black beans. When I ask Sharif what he attributes his confidence to during our mid-afternoon feast at Brooklyn’s Mi Sabor Cafe, he credits his upbringing, where self-acceptance was paramount. But he’s generally the life of a party, and usually shirtless like in the “Phantasm” video, where he rhymes in the snow throughout the Mike Petrow-directed visual. Sharif could easily hide behind his enigmatic catalog, lurking as a mysterious figure in the tri-state underground. His punctilious, every-word-counts lyricism makes your head hurt in a good way, like GZA’s Liquid Swords, Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele, and RZA’s Gravediggaz work all congealed in a thrilling sonic stew. There are plenty of rappers who fans claim “no one else is rapping like,” but the dignification is actually true of Sharif, who recently released Decay with indie stalwart producer Steel Tipped Dove on the mighty Backwoodz Studios. No sonic expectations can be gleaned from the cover, but it compelled something out of most viewers. with the cover of his 2020 breakout album Gandhi Loves Children, where he stands in the woods wearing just a weathered wig, sunglasses, and boxers alongside GLC producer (and close collaborator) Roper Williams, who dons a Ronald Reagan Mask and a dickies suit. He jokes about taking his shirt off during his set: “Small niggas think they the only ones who can take off their shirt. Boogaveli blasts Wayne Wonder and Surpriz’s “Enemies” from his DJ deck - I thought he was playing the song to test the venue’s speakers, but they would close Sharif’s performance with the festive 2010 track later that night. Midway through the soundcheck, Sharif resolves that he’ll walk offstage into the crowd during the third song. Fatboi Sharif and his DJ Boogaveli are in the middle of a soundcheck for Sharif’s set at the Brooklyn venue Elsewhere’s 15th-anniversary show.

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