#AMINE LIMBO DELUXE PLUS#

I just felt it was necessary.ĭavid: Are the deluxe tracks also from the same recording sessions over the past two years?Īminé: Yeah, I mean most of them were songs that I really wanted on Limbo, but I took them off because they didn’t make sense for sequencing. I made OnePointFive to give me more time on this. OnePointFive was done in, like, one or two months. Before, I would usually make an album within a span of six to seven months, knock it out. I wanted to challenge myself and be more cutthroat about my song selection for an album. Why did you feel the need to take so much time between releases?Īminé: I felt like I had never done that before. Rings by Bernard James.ĭavid Aaron Brake: Something that strikes me is how long it took you to record this album. Right: Sweater, shorts, and socks by The Elder Statesman. Left: Aminé wears sweater and pants by The Elder Statesman. Each album Aminé releases is like a puzzle piece, slowly revealing a portrait of the artist, and as the picture becomes more clear, it only becomes more intriguing.ĭocument spoke to Aminé about Limbo and its deluxe, his Portland-inspired style, and his dog, Oliver. He thinks a lot about legacy for an artist who’s only 26, and takes pride in personally touching everything tied to his image, from music videos to merch. The death of Kobe Bryant forced him to reckon with his fading childhood.

Throughout Limbo, Aminé plays with themes of responsibility and purpose.

#AMINE LIMBO DELUXE PLUS#

The deluxe edition, released on December 3, adds seven new songs to the top of Limbo with features from Valee, Saba, and Toosii, plus a stunning, genre-busting collaboration with New Zealand band Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Oozing with the contrasting but surprisingly compatible influences of indie rock, LA hip hop, and sonics seemingly plucked from the humid air of the Pacific Northwest, Aminé’s latest rejects trends and shows the power of individuality. Recorded over the past two years, Limbo is a razor-sharp effort from a rapper truly coming into his own skin. We’ve now arrived at Limbo, Aminé’s second full-length LP that puts to rest any fears of a sophomore slump. Then came “REEL IT IN” and its subsequent Gucci Mane-assisted remix from 2018’s OnePointFive, a mixtape-style EP that flaunted Aminé’s intoxicating bars and playful melodies. A monumental track in every sense of the word, his breakthrough single has since gone four times platinum, spent weeks in the Billboard charts, and made countless viral appearances on TikTok and Instagram.

The Rip City MC exploded into the public sphere in 2017 with “Caroline” from his debut studio album Good For You.

He introduces himself with his given name, Adam, exuding remarkable humility for an artist who just released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year and snagged a Grammy nomination in the process.Īminé hails from Woodlawn in the Northeast part of Portland, Oregon, a residential neighborhood that is vastly more diverse than the rest of the overwhelmingly white city and state. Even when conversing with a stranger over the phone, his words are loaded with a palpably bouncy cadence (and just a whiff of a nasal inflection). The first thing you notice when speaking with Portland-born, LA-based rapper Aminé is his jubilant charisma. With his sophomore album ‘Limbo,’ the genre-blending rap visionary is already leaving a legacy

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