Westside Gunn (Griselda) // Hamburg

Schedule

Sun Feb 05 2023 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Location

Uebel und Gefährlich | Hamburg, HH

WESTSIDE GUNN (Griselda)
05.02.2023
Uebel & Gefährlich
Feldstraße 66, 20359 Hamburg
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Bringing the sounds of '90s hardcore rap into the 21st century, Buffalo-bred rapper
Westside Gunn emerged as an underdog from the underground alongside his brother and fellow emcee, Conway.
With their tales of street life, drugs, and gun violence, the
pair have employed sample-heavy production in the gritty East Coast tradition of the
Lox, Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga, and the Wu-Tang Clan. In addition to his
work with Conway and their Griselda labelmates, Westside Gunn branched out on his
own with a series of Hitler Wears Hermes mixtapes issued in the 2010s, as well as
solo albums such as Flygod (2016), Supreme Blientele (2018), and Pray for
Paris (2020), the latter of which cracked the upper half of the Billboard 200. Gunn's
fourth studio album, Who Made the Sunshine, arrived in 2020, followed by several
mixtapes, including 2022's Peace "Fly" God.
Born Alvin Lamar Worthy in Buffalo, New York, Westside Gunn started rapping at a
young age. In high school, he joined with Conway (born Demond Price) and fellow
rappers Benny the Butcher and Machine Gun Black as the Forerunners. They stuck
together over the years and in the early 2010s, they founded Griselda Records. In
addition to output as Westside Gunn & Conway, Worthy began issuing his own
mixtapes, including the Hitler Wears Hermes series, which kicked off in 2012. With his
strong, steady rhymes and often laid-back production, he released five installments of
the Hermes series into 2017.
His debut studio full-length, Flygod, arrived in 2016 and featured appearances
by Benny, Conway, Roc Marciano, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, and more, as
well as production by Statik Selektah and the Alchemist. In 2017, Griselda inked a
deal with Eminem's Shady Records, which graduated Westside Gunn to the majors.
That same year, he hopped onto a collaboration with MF Doom titled WestsideDoom,
and a year later he issued his sophomore LP, Supreme Blientele, which featured
many familiar faces from Flygod, as well as new guests Jadakiss, Busta
Rhymes, Anderson .Paak, and producers Pete Rock and 9th Wonder.
After Griselda hit the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B/hip-hop and rap charts with WWCD,
Westside issued the solo album Pray for Paris in April 2020. DJ Premier, DJ
Muggs, the Alchemist, and Tyler, The Creator were among the contributors to the
set, which entered the Billboard 200 at number 67 and the R&B/hip-hop chart at 39. A
second Gunn album, Who Made the Sunshine, was initially set for release that
August, but it was delayed following the death of longtime Griselda Records
collaborator DJ Shay from COVID-19. The album eventually appeared in October 2020
and featured appearances by Benny, Conway, Slick Rick, Black Thought, and
others. Two tracks, "Julia Lang" and "TV Boy," arrived in March 2021 as the first songs
released off Gunn's mixtape Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely, Adolf. Hitler Wears
Hermes 8: Side B followed, and the mixtape Peace "Fly" God appeared in 2022.

Where is it happening?

Uebel und Gefährlich, Feldstraße 66,Hamburg, Germany
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