It’s easy to see why: A Boogie is winningly open, even when expressing scorn or torment or shame. His major-label debut, The Bigger Artist, reached Number Four on the Billboard 200 in 2017, out-selling long-established national stars like Miley Cyrus. These tales of love-as-mutually-assured-destruction have earned A Boogie a devoted following. “And the way I’m actin’ is all due to her/ If I think she thottin’, I’m gon’ do it first/ I’m gon’ call my side bitch and we gon’ do the work.” And that’s just the first song there are still 19 to go. “She know I’m mad rich, she think I’m usin’ her/ My diamonds mad rich, they so rude to her,” he raps. The very first line on Hoodie SZN, the new album from 23-year-old Bronx rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie, is “All she ever wanted was my heart to hurt.” Few rappers mine their torrid affairs for lyrical inspiration with the fervor of A Boogie, who presents romance as a highly addictive mixture of deception, betrayal and revenge.
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