Who Is Joey Bada?

At only 22 years old, Joey Bada$$ is already solving complex real-world problems through his new album ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ with his conscious hip-hop music. His style contests political, cultural, social and economic issues in his music. A topic that, while it has been mentioned by other rappers in the past couple years, it hasn’t been tackled for the entirety of an album. The important issues covered in each song is a really good way to open up these subjects to the world. Within todays cultural society, music is everywhere, using it as a tool to express problems is a very effective way to get the point across. "My greatest power is my voice," Joey says. "So it starts with me bringing [these topics] into the conversation and putting it in
The Brooklyn raised 22 year old wants to make a positive change in the world, and uses his natural music artistic skills to do so. Joey Badass has always been seen as a guru towards rap music. At the age of 17 he released his first album 1999 in 2012 which had people excited due to his overnight fame because of his ability to rap. He was originally imaged as the nineties boom-bap rapper and seen as ‘the young man with an old soul’. Now at 22 after releasing ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ he believes it is his responsibility to educate people on these problems. In relation to his first album, you can feel that the vibe has matured and he has grown up. Initially rapping about rapping itself, he now very effectively highlights issues that seem very personal, very important towards him. They are not only statistics, or a news article, its one man and his passionate thoughts on all these compounding problems. In this essay I will review Joey Bada$$’ new 2017 album ALL-AMERIKKKAN
He also adds extracts from speeches like Zianna Oliphant who is a nine year old girl who performed a speech at a council meeting about the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott. He uses more sample recordings, a very powerful tool to prove that these issues do exist. These days, we believe that rapping has fallen off and is not as good as what it used to be in the 90’s. “Hip-hop has a bad habit of idealizing the past, canonizing long-deceased legends, and leaving the youth to fend for the themselves, struggling to appeal to a fanbase who aren’t inclined to give them a chance in the first place.” (Aaron Williams, uproxx). Joey says that artists are trying too much to replicate the past and should focus more on the future of rapping. This album he believes, is a new step forward into the future. The lyrics are actually topics that need to be discussed, words which are sung from the heart and told by someone who is passionate and believes that this is a chance for change. Joey was originally known as a kid born in the wrong era, his first album 1999 was a kind of 90’s rap and gained popularity being able to recreate and throwback what rapping fans loved. However, rap has to evolve and cannot be stuck trying to recreate the past and needs to advance towards the future and change for this new generation of