Joey Bada$$

Bringing the Golden Age of hip-hop into the 21st century, New York rapper, actor, and producer Joey Bada$$ rose to fame by releasing a series of underground mixtapes and founding the hip-hop collective Pro Era. Influenced by Nas, Tupac, Black Thought, J Dilla, and others, he focused on insightful street tales and socio-political issues in his rhymes, smoothed out by sample-heavy production heard on official debut B4.DA.$$ (2015) and All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ (2017).