Deluxe Editions have always been around, but never have they been quite so prevalent as they are today. And while the releases of yore tended to feature three or four new tracks, these days Deluxe Editions have become full-fledged albums. Albums that artists have occasionally touted as superior to the original version, leaving us wondering — why didn’t they just release the Deluxe first? In any case, fans are arguably benefitting from the trend, receiving twice the music, even if it can feel slightly rushed.

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Now, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has taken to Instagram to announce Artist 2.0 Deluxe Edition (does that technically make it Artist 2.0 2.0?), penning a lengthy dedication to his loyal fanbase. “To the best fans in the world: Thanks for being patient and always supporting everything I do,” he begins. “It took a while to bring you this Deluxe because I wanted to make sure it dropped at a time that felt right.”

Confirming that the album will be arriving on June 19th, A Boogie also revealed that he’d be doing his part to help the young people of his community. “I am donating $100k worth of tablets/laptops to my old elementary school, PS 126, in the Bronx, so that they can do their remote learning in the safest way,” he continues. “With everything going on in the world, I believe it’s important to invest in the youth because by doing so, we are investing in a better future. I can’t wait to see y’all soon but until then, stay safe and take care of each other!”

Check out the album cover and announcement below, and look for Artist 2.0 Deluxe to drop on June 19th.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has made his way back to the late-night performance stage this time alongside H.E.R. to perform “Me & My Guitar” on TheTonight Show Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Coming off of the release his third studio album, Artist 2.0 (2020), which debuted at number two on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart and number one of the Billboard R&B/Hi-Hop Albums chart, A Boogie is quickly becoming a world-renowned musical act that supersedes the genre borders of traditional hip-hop. 

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Artist 2.0 did extremely well upon its initial release racking up over 141 million streams in its first week alone. The only other album to amass more streams this decade was Eminem‘s Music to be Murdered By (2020). With so much commercial success, it was only right for the Bronx-bred hip-hop artist to take the stage alongside Grammy Award-winning songstress/instrumentalist H.E.R. to perform a song A Boogie intended the late Juice Wrld to be a part of. 

The 24-year-old, born Artist Julius Dubose, took the stage in his finest rock-inspired garments standing in front of a full live band alongside H.E.R. as he began to croon the “Me & My Guitar” lyrics into an auto-tuned mixed microphone. The crowd was responsive and the young emcee flawlessly delivered a late-night musical television experience that is going to continue to propel his career into the forefront of mainstream music. 

Check out A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s live performance of “Me & My Guitar” featuring H.E.R. on the guitar on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the video provided below. 

It looks like A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie was trying to get Chicago rapper Juice Wrld on his song “Me & My Guitar” off his Artist 2.0 project. In a new interview with Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins, the NYC spitter revealed he specifically made his guitar song for Juice Wrld.

“To be honest, I made that song for Juice Wrld to get on. I was in LA and I was talking to Bibby… Juice Wrld never picked up his phone mind you. He lost his phone every other day literally. Rest in Peace to the bro though,” A Boogie says in the clip.

A Boogie continues: “Yeah I was tryna send it to him but it happened like a week later I think. I feel like nobody else could even master up to that. If I put anybody else on that song it never would made no sense so. Even though people will look like it’s not my style to drop a rockstar song like that, and they’ll be like ‘yeah thats some Juice Wrld shit,’ I made it for Juice Wrld.” he adds. (swipe right to watch clip)

While we didn’t get to hear Juice on “Me & My Guitar,” the two did previously link up on the track “Demons & Angels,” off A Boogie’s 2018 tape Hoodie SZN.

Check out the full 30-minute interview with A Boogie & Jinx (below) and stream Artist 2.0 right here if you haven’t already.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's going ghost?! Say it ain't so! The Queensbridge rapper is a little bit over a week removed from his latest project, Artist 2.0, which debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 2. With each project, the rapper pushes his own creative boundaries and treads new genres. However, it looks like he has one more album in him -- for now. Taking to Twitter, he announced that he has another project on the way but that might be the last we'll hear from him for a while.

"Thanks to everyone supporting the Album.I’m glad you guys respect where I’m going with this shit," he wrote. "YOU CANT PUT ME IN A CATEGORY! ARTISTRY is EVERYTHING I wanna drop A boogie VS Artist this year. But only if ya ready. Before I go ghost I wanna flood your ears with straight ART."

The rapper's latest project included a variety of features and collaborations such as Lil Uzi Vert, Summer Walker, Young Thug, and more.

Perhaps a break is well deserved for the rapper. He has been on an incredible run in the past few years while watching his sound influence a new generation of artists. On top of that, the rapper and his girlfriend are also expecting their second child together so there's no doubt that he's catching blessings in both his professional and personal life. 

It has been said that the Big Apple isn’t for everyone. The city’s arteries breed a certain type of hardened individual. Those who are lightning struck and stride through the treacherous desert of quicksand before somehow reaching a real-life utopia revel in navigating the congo of concrete. Never will they let you forget from where they originated. As the theme to Power reminds: “I gotta make it.” Like Ghost, Boogie’s goal is to be the King of New York. But in his own eyes, he’s both there and not quite there.

His ambition is clearly declared on “King of My City,” stating: “I be feeling like the king of my city, from the Bronx, not Benny.” Here, Boogie uses an analogy of the character Benny Blanco from the 1993 film Carlito’s Way to say he’s no fraud or imposter, but rather the real thing. The 24-year-old might not be ready to boast on it but he’s climbed a long way up that steep metro-mountain. Perhaps the young phenom is finding himself. In “Might Not Give Up” Boogie refers to himself living a “rockstar lifestyle” and says he’s “nothing like a rapper, he’s an artist.” The guitar solo introduces “DTB 4 Life” sounding like something from Nirvana’s early 90s catalog. Yet Boogie’s voice and delivery feel natural. It seems as though we’re trending towards more genreless music and artists transcending labels.

The album’s name reflects his intentions of eclipsing the rapper label. This has been the sentiment of several emcees in the last decade — not wanting to be limited to rap in the traditional sense. Longing to be cradled as artists first. His style is engineered to manufacture hit records. A monster on the hook. An anthem maker. An expedition through risky yet harmonic sound elements. He has discovered a formula of catchy choruses, melodic arrangements, and guitar-driven production while emphasizing the braggadocious style that New York rap is famous for. His versatility has earned him equity in the music game. Boogie has listed Kanye West among his many inspirations, a claim reflected in the diversity of his fanbase. He plays to this base merging modern rock, R&B, and hip-hop. In his own brand of street gospel, Boogie effortlessly melds brutally blunt messaging on fast life over the undone pavements of Gotham. Breaking the mold shaped by New York’s rappers of the past and a few of the present, Boogie flaunts a style all his own, his bravos on full display.

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No matter how melancholic his sound appears, A Boogie stays true to the central message of overcoming adversity and triumph over circumstances – in his case surviving the disenfranchisement of urban life. The lack of hope in paths that did not include music, insinuating if not for a life of creativity he fears what may have become. He addresses tragedy and quests for love once foiled, a modern-day lyricist tight-roping the line between singer and rapper in the ultimate balancing act. Boogie strands himself in the cables thousands of feet in the air. His confidence allows him to do backflips on that rope. Unbothered and unrequited. Singing his heart out on “Thug Love” and getting introspective on “Me and My Guitar.”

The album has some high-profile and well-placed features: Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, DaBaby. Although the songs with Boogie by himself may be more enjoyable, the overall production and curation hit the mark on a majority of the project. Boogie welcomes artists of the same undefinable ilk in Roddy Rich and Gunna yet blends seamlessly with the likes of refined vocalists Summer Walker and Khalid. The most satisfying and stimulating selections on the presentation are “Blood On My Denim” & “Right Back.” Boogie pairs astonishingly, yet blissfully with Lil Uzi on “Luv Is Art.” However, several songs on the album do lack cohesion and come off half-baked. It feels bloated at times and smells like a chart chase. Really no reason for this to be an hour long. There are a few skippable tracks that should’ve never made it out of the editing room. He doesn’t dete enough from song to song to justify this. It can feel like he’s alternating between the same two shells over and over. 

Is A Boogie adopting a more mainstream sound or simply expanding his creative bandwidth to manage the influx of new experiences and influences that inevitably come with success? He does not come without his limitations. Not much lyricism. The need to more thoroughly clean up his track selection. I feel there may still be untapped potential which will only come with experience and time. Hopefully, the ambitious creative cross-section merges and we get a classic album. That and only that will jet him into the NYC pedestal. Overall, Artist 2.0 finds him reaching for the throne but mostly coming up with air. Be that as it may, the highs still undoubtedly overshadow the lows and make for a concentrated listening experience. 

A few months back, we started our R&B-centric Spotify playlist, “R&B Season”. HNHH curates a bunch of playlists on various streaming platforms, but they are predominantly focused on hip hop. While it may appear that our expertise lies in hip hop, we are great admirers of R&B. As the border between these two genres becomes increasingly porous, it’s hard to be a fan of one without being a fan of the other. However, the distinction remains important when deciding what vibe you’re going for when you turn to your preferred medium of music consumption. R&B tends to be catered for your more mellow moments and there should be a place for you to comfortably retreat into to enjoy those sounds. That’s why we’ve been putting love and care into building up our “R&B Season” playlist. 

Since Valentine’s Day coincided with New Music Friday this year, some R&B artists took the opportunity share songs focused on their favourite lyrical theme: love. Snoh Aalegra is the queen of giving us ~those feels~, so we were grateful that she came through with a V-Day offering. It may not have been a brand new track, but it was something equally exciting – a Pharrell remix. Romantic P hopped on “Woah” from Aalegra’s 2019 sophomore album, – Ugh, those feels again. It’s always a cause for celebration when we get to hear Pharrell’s unconventional approach to rap. 

A Boogie wit da Hoodie is one of those artists who is incredibly skilled at fusing together trap and R&B. He oscillates between these musical inclinations, as exhibited on his new collaboration with Summer Walker, “Calm Down (Bittersweet)”. The track marks one of the more mellow moments on A Boogie’s new album, Artist 2.0. Anything Summer Walker does is sure to secure a spot on our playlist.

We have no rules against including throwbacks on “R&B Season” and since Valentine’s Day had us reflecting on Kendrick Lamar’s tender 2017 track, “LOVE”, we decided to add to the queue. Grimes also dropped “Delete Forever”, the most gentle single yet from her forthcoming album that we felt fit the vibe of “R&B Season”. The same argument applies to Billie Eilish highly-awaited Bond theme, “No Time To Die”. Enjoy!

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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie will be setting the tone for Valentine’s Day. This could mean great or terrible things but from the looks of the tracklist of Artist 2.0, he might have a little something for everyone. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie just shared the tracklist on Instagram earlier today which includes appearances from some of the biggest names in the game including several of his own contemporaries.

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Extending twenty tracks, the project includes singles like “Mood Swings” and “King Of My City” with appearances from DaBaby, Summer Walker, and more. Lil Uzi Vert appears on the tracklist twice and Young Thug comes through with the assist on “Might Not Give Up.” One track that seems like it could become one of the biggest records, solely of the guest appearances, is “Anti-Social Gangsta (Numbers)” ft. London On Da Track, Roddy Ricch, and Gunna. Aside from those features, Khalid, and Trap Manny also help out A Boogie on his new project.

A Boogie has been revving up for this moment for a while. The success of Hoodie SZN only solidified him as one of the biggest artists in New York City right now and earned him his first number one album on the Billboard 200. We’re excited to see what he has in store on this upcoming project. Peep the tracklist below.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has continued to flood the streets with new music following the release of Hoodie SZN, the rapper’s highly-successful sophomore album. The project arrived at the tail end of 2018 and helped him storm into 2019 scorching hot. Now, people have been anticipating the release of his third studio album which he’s been teasing heavily over the past few months. 

It appears as though we’ll finally be getting the new album this week. The New York City native announced on Instagram that the album is officially dropping this Friday on Valentine’s Day. This confirms fan speculation ever since he shared the cover art for the project. The rapper shared a trailer for the album with “King Of New York” soundtracking the clip to drive the point home. He has yet to share the tracklist but it wouldn’t be a surprise if it’s stacked with high-profile guest appearances. 

Ahead of the album’s release, the rapper shared a PSA to everyone in the game who he feels like is stealing his sound and even went as far as threatening legal action, although that could’ve been a joke. Despite that, several other artists in the game also stated that they’d follow suit in suing rappers for stealing their sound. But as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is tired of hearing rappers who sound like him, as expressed on his Twitter, Saturday.

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal the cover art for his upcoming album, Artist 2.0. The rapper shared a photo of the artwork and assured his fans that the album is on the way, apologizing for the wait.

“ART?,” Boogie wrote in the caption of the post. “The expression of creative skill and imagination, producing work to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power… Album on the way! Sorry for the wait????????” The cover was designed by illustrator Cosmic Sepctrum, who “specializes in character design/comics/illustration,” according to their Instagram bio. The image shows Boogie in animated form standing in front of a frosted window. He is holding up what appears to be a heart-shaped guitar with a knife piercing through it, as pixie-sized women flit about. Many fans in the comments expressed their excitement for the project to drop, some speculating that the album will be arriving on Valentine’s Day next week.

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In November, A Boogie noted that he might be taking a break from music once Artist 2.0 officially drops. “This might be my last project for a while,” he revealed. “There’s a lot of things I want to do in life and it’s just moving too fast for me to focus on everything at once. But I will never let my fans down. When you need me most, I’ll be there.”