![]() “They’ll be people in that audience who’ll always remember Teezo Touchdown bursting through a door with a chainsaw,” he laughs. “Whenever things feel too corporate, I remind myself that I started doing this because it’s fun.”Ģ020’s Sucka! caught the attention of Tyler, the Creator – he featured on his track Runitup and supported him on an arena tour, turning his 30-minute set into a garish home-improvement show. “It should never be that serious,” Teezo says, not wanting the songs to feel like cosplay. His first breakout moment as Teezo Touchdown came in 2019 when he rapped about gun violence over Panic! at the Disco’s histrionic emo anthem I Write Sins, Not Tragedies before trying out that string of different styles: “I just wanted to see how the world would react.”Īs the Pitchfork article suggests, the world wasn’t always positive – but rather than going into the studio and aiming for a specific genre mashup, he kept chasing what felt exciting. Photograph: Publicity imageĪaron Lashane Thomas first started making music in middle school, inspired by his father’s job as a DJ and the eclectic mix of crowdpleasers that were regularly played around the house. It’s like a good suit – the whole thing has been tailored to me.”Īrt on his sleeve … Teezo Touchdown. “That first version of the album was a showcase of all the things I could do. ![]() “If an album drops in the woods and no-one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?” he asks today. Initially the album was even more diverse and titled Ended Up Being Me, but after a couple of singles were met with a shrug from his usually hyper-engaged fanbase, Teezo went back to the drawing board. “These aren’t someone else’s words – this is my story.” ![]() “I just want you to get to know the person who you’re going to be spending the rest of your life with,” he says, eying a long career of his own. Love songs are written in such detail they feel voyeuristic. The title pokes fun at questions Teezo is asked about his hairstyle, but it also speaks to his intimate storytelling: the dreamy Familiarity wrestles with a hustler’s lifestyle the Quentin Tarantino-inspired Neighborhood takes in fatherhood, class and social mobility. How Do You Sleep At Night? opens with a watercooler conversation about the latest Spider-Man movie but quickly spirals out to explore parental relationships, masculinity and growing up in Beaumont, Texas, one of North America’s most disenfranchised cities, with over 20% of the population living below the poverty line.
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