Regardless of the up to date large booty bass sound and really feel of his most up-to-date single “Large Drip,” the Florida-based artist often known as 3Fifs usually has usually had a more-heard-hitting type throughout his decade-long profession. The St. Louis native makes use of his various musical type to drive his deeper factors dwelling, as is exemplified within the re-release final yr of 1 his of first and heaviest singles, “Dive In Deep.” Now along with his return to hip hop, this City Songwriter of the 12 months is simply getting began.

3Fifs’s identify is a transparent reference to the oppression and enslavement of black folks in the USA, and his music began off with the identical message along with his debut single “Dive In Deep” and his 2013 album, Beginning of a Nation. “Dive In Deep” that includes Lydia Lyon appeared in a while the equally visceral The Runaway EP and is a jazzy replace on the basic “Wade Within the Water” non secular music sung by enslaved folks within the south.

“Dive in Deep” is the primary music I ever recorded, however I by no means promoted it; regardless of all my day-1 followers encouraging me to take action.  As somebody impressed by Black historical past, I knew I needed to flip a Negro non secular, and “Wade within the Water” was the primary one to come back to thoughts.  I wrote the music in my head whereas I used to be working a job on the mall and fascinated about the kind of lady I needed…“Dive in Deep” is my signature music: it represents all the things I’m as an artist – easy, laid again, introspective, and fashionable.  The story and the beat are attractive, the video options my brother, my sister, and my cousin, O So Amazin’, who was tragically taken from us too quickly.

3Fifs’s tie-ins to black historical past aren’t all the time in his vocals, as he states above, however they nonetheless are very a lot within the listener’s face. Each Beginning of a Nation and The Runaway have stark, callback-to-slavery imagery and toggle between heavy subject material with tracks like “Preamble,” “Jim Crow,” “Dred Scott” and, after all “Dive In Deep,” and extra standard-style bangers like “Danny Bonaduce” feat. O So Amazin and Streetza Ria and “Due Time” feat. Khyre. His flexibility helps get these deeper messages throughout and has additionally amassed him a formidable following, along with his new ventures amassing practically a mixed 200,000 listens on Spotify.

Since re-entering the limelight in 2021 along with his single “Season of the Fall,” 3FIfs has launched into among the newer kinds like heavy bass entice however followers can wager his ties to the golden age haven’t gone away fully. The very subsequent monitor after “Season of the Fall ” is “Smoke Within the Breeze,” a easy, jazzy melding of Nas-style large beat and Dr. Dre funk. Each tracks are enjoyable, danceable, and, most significantly, comprise well-spit verses with zero mumble rap.

Transferring to “Large Drip,” it’s clear 3Fifs needed to drag some throwback booty bass affect from his transfer to Florida, and hip hop historians will be capable of hear the trace of two Stay Crew on this monitor, nevertheless it’s additionally extraordinarily fashionable and incorporates entice and pop sounds. “Large Drip” could sound prefer it’s only a enjoyable, collar-popping monitor however 3Fifs says there’s extra to it than that.

It’s a really braggadocious music, however as the road says “I spit like I stay it:” I used to be one of many first folks to order the brand new Hummer SUV straight off my automotive enterprise cash; my Mother and I lived in a homeless shelter after I was younger, however now she has a house on 5 acres, and my Granny undoubtedly was pleased with me till her dying day. It’s a feel-good music with a bouncy beat and genuine realism. Hopefully others will relate.

“Season of the Fall,” “Smoke Within the Breeze” and “Large Drip” will all function on 3Fifs’s upcoming The Center Passage EP, which is due out in 2024. As has all the time been the case with 3Fifs, followers can anticipate a wholesome mixture of deep, thought-provoking ideas, stark imagery and a operating historical past of music within the remaining releases. It appears 3Fifs isn’t practically completed along with his message and music but, and hip hop can solely profit from his presence.

“Large Drip” is out now on Spotify together with the remainder of 3Fifs work. For a extra intensive discography, take a look at his SoundCloud web page and for extra movies, subscribe on YouTube.