Pooh Shiesty’s explosion onto the music’s nationwide stage has been a sight to see.
Dubbed as Gucci’s “Kobe,” the 21-year-old Memphis product has lived as much as the nickname, delivering Guwop’s 1017 emblem a no. 4 album on the Billboard’s 200 Chart and no. 1 album on Billboard’s Rap Albums Chart along with his debut studio album, Shiesty Season (2021).
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Since signing to Gucci, the South Memphis native topped Rolling Stone’s Breakthrough 25 Chart, was chosen by Spotify’s Rap Caviar as one of many “10 Artists to Watch in 2021” and has gone platinum.
Born Lontrell Williams Jr, Shiesty’s resume — though temporary — already makes him arguably probably the most viable candidate for brand new hip hop artist on the BET Hip Hop Awards 2021. Going up towards fellow artists Blxst, Coi Leray, Don Toliver, Morray, and Yung Bleu, none can fairly declare the accolades he can, and he’s one of many youngest.
Because the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards strategy, right here’s a deeper look into the artist we would simply be speaking much more about sooner or later.
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Behind The Nickname
It’s not usually you’ll discover a rapper who shares the identify with an affectionate youngsters’s cartoon (moreover Snoop Dogg) however Pooh Shiesty makes that uncommon reduce.
Pooh is a by-product of his childhood nickname “Mr. Pooh,” given to him by his late older brother Tarrance Henderson (aka TeeDa P). So far as Shiesty? Effectively, as he tells Uproxx in an interview, it’s “due to his way of life and what was occurring”.
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Spent Time In Texas
Whereas Shiesty is Memphis to the core, the time he spent in Texas throughout his early life has had affect on the younger rapper.
Younger Shiesty moved to Pflugerville, Texas when he was 16 for 2 years earlier than deciding to return residence to Tennessee.
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Quick Begin
The whole lot about Pooh Shiesty’s rap profession so far has been a blur. Whereas the 21-year-old-rapper tells BET he didn’t even need to rap, saying he simply tried it at 18, he certain is nice at it.
The primary tune he ever recorded was his function verse on a collaborative single referred to as “Breaking Information” in 2018, which ended up going viral.
“I actually acquired on from coming with hearth verses. “Breaking Information,” that first verse, went viral. It’s all the time been like, in Memphis, I’ve needed to maintain my head on … simply trigger they know,” he tells UPROXX in an interview.
A few years later he is a platinum-selling recording artist.
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Comes From A Household of Music
Pooh Shiesty could have began his rap profession at 18 with early success, however the “Again in Blood” rapper additionally had a father within the biz to point out him the ropes.
He tells BET in an interview earlier this 12 months that his pops based the Memphis-based Mob Ties Report and rapped underneath the nickname Mob Boss.
“He wasn’t simply no rapper. He had his personal file label,” Pooh says to BET about his father and mentor. So whereas it’s stunning that he began rapping at solely 18, Pooh was in a position to see first-hand how issues labored within the studio.
When it comes to recommendation? Pooh tells BET he was advised to “be prepared for no matter comes of this.”
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Is Gucci Mane’s Kobe Bryant
The New 1017 is Gucci Mane’s Atlantic-backed file firm, comprised of Massive Cootie, Massive Fizzle, The Wops, Enchanting, Massive Scarr. Pooh Shiesty, Foogiano, Okay Shiday and Roboy.
And out of all of the expertise Gucci deems Pooh Shiesty the “Kobe” — or Most worthy — of the bunch.
Such reward shouldn’t go unmentioned, not solely as a result of Shiesty is so younger, however as a result of Gucci has a monitor file for launching the careers of Waka Flocka, Younger Thug, and Younger Scooter.
Gucci provides Shiesty the praise on the monitor “Like 34 & 8”, which is the second single off Gucci Mane’s Ice Daddy album.
“Shiesty, that’s my Kobe Bryant, ain’t no method I’m tradin’ the person/Don’t strive me or my goons be at your own home like they the cable man/They are saying I’m a intercourse image, they are saying I’m a girls man/Dressed up within the newest style, style present with Dapper Dan,” Guwop raps over the Mike WiLL Made-It manufacturing.
