TA13OO: How a relatively underappreciated rapper made one of the best and most influential albums of the 2010's.
A Still of Denzel Curry from the CLOUT COBAIN music video. In 2018, A Young and relatively unknown rapper named Denzel Curry was about to release his third studio album, TA13OO. At the time, Curry was a 23 year old rapper out of who grew up in Carol City, in Florida's Dade County, a relatively poorer area. Curry rose to the notoriety he had gained up to 2015 through being a member of a notable hip-hop collective called Raider Klan. Although not the group's leader, Curry was a well-known member due to his collection of 5 mixtapes he had released, as well as for his first album made after Raider Klan disbanded, Nostalgic 64, which showed a lot of potential as well as a lot of the styles Curry would continue to use even to present day . Then, in 2016, Curry gained a viral smash hit with the song Ultimate and capitalized on the hype surrounding his name with the release of his second studio album Imperial the same year, featuring Curry's signature airtight ...