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JOEY BADA$$

Biography
Jo Vaugn Scoott (born Janurary 1995), better known n by his alias Joey Bada$$, is an American Hip Hop recording artist from Flatbush Brooklyn, New York. He has amassed a large Internet following and is a member of the Pro Era Crew (a group of hip hop artist, graphic designers, and singers from New York city).

Early Life
Joey Bada$$ was born in Flatbush, New York in 1995. Joey was the first of his brothers and sister to be born in the United States. Originally from the West Indies, his parents moved to look for a better form of living for their children. Joey has three brothers, and one sister. And he is the second oldest. At a young age Joey’s parents divorced and he ended living with his Mother, and the rest of his siblings ended up living with their father. He is his mother’s only child. As a child of 5 and 6, Joeys favorite things were poetry and smashing cars as he said in an interview with complex magazine; ““As a kid, I was into Hot Wheels, and cars. I was really into cars. I liked smashing things. I still like smashing things.[Laughs.] And then, I was really into poetry, that’s what got me into the whole rapping thing (Link: 1). One of Joey’s first instances that drew his attention to hip hop was The Notorious B.I.G.’s song, Hypnotize. He claims to have known that song word for word and would wait for the music countdown (he does not remember which countdown) to come on because he knew the song Hypnotize would come on and sing along to every word. Joey not only grew up listening to hip-hop but also listened to a lot of R&B, West Indian Reggae, and “soul” music (link 1). He also listened to a lot of Prince growing up because his mother would constantly play it around the home. Joey claims to have first started writing serious poetry and songs at the age of 11 (link: 2). The first time Joey ever put a song together, he was sitting in the barbershop in the chair getting a hair cut, and he said he saw s girl walking past him, and a song just flustered in his mind, like a melody. And he put it on paper. That was the first time Joey ever fully put a song with a “hook” together. From there he structured a full three verses. From there on he would attend various Poetry slams around his neighborhood and perform to perfect his craft and technique.

Music career
As Joeys raps become older so did he. Joey currently attends Edward R Murrow High School and he says it is very close to his becoming’s as a rapper (link 3). When Joey first began started to take rap as a serious career, he began under the alias, JayOhVee. But Joey ended up changing his name to Joey Bada$$ because he thought that it is “what sounded cool at the time, what fit my mood”(link 1). He also admits changing his rap name due to more social Medias paying attention to a rapper with a more cynical name. At this point of time Joey was delving into an older 90’s era of hip-hop that a lot of his peers did not listen to. Joey pays extreme homage to the 1990s style of hip-hop for cultivating his style and form as a hip-hop artist. Drawing from such major influences such as; MF Doom, Daft Punk, Nas, Jay-Z and gang Starr, he learned to create a craft resembling not only the golden era of hip hop but also a style of his own. Joey’s first recordings came from a “knock-off” IPod device he had. He would put the files on a CD-ROM and put the CD Rom in his PlayStation and play it through his television. He eventually bought a PC and a USB condenser mic, and a little vocal editing program. He really didn’t think anyone had the same creative sound, so he would also do the creative mixing as well.

Joey Bada$$ first performance was around 2010 during Christmas at a Dyme-A-Duzin event (Link 1), at his school in Flatbush. Joey says that performance changed the way he made music, “because I (Joey Bada$$) never got to see how my music was on the performance side of things. I didn’t get a bad response, I got good feedback. And it only made me want to work more (link 1).” Joey than started uploading freestyles on YouTube and it got on a popular hip hop website called World Star. Seeing Joey’s potential and worth, Jonny Shipes (Cinematic Music Group CEO), had seen his video and it caught his attention and he messaged him on twitter. He told him, “I (Jonny Shipes) wanna build you as an artist. I wanna see you grow (link 1).” Joey excited to see grow as an artist agreed to Jonny Shipes proposition and he became his manager. Before Joey had met Jonny, he was working on music to put out but later ended up trashing that music seeing it was not at his official potential. He began to work on a new project and with Jonny as manager would later on to create the wildly successful mix tape known as 1999.

1999
Jonny Shipes introduced Bad a$$ to Coodie and Chike, directors of the online TV network Creative Control TV. Coodie and Chike directed Joey’s first official music video called Survival Tactics featuring Capital Steez of the Pro Era Crew. Survival Tactics ended up seeing reviews that generated up to 1000000 views by mid-way through 2012. The video began to get high recognition from artist such as Big Krit, Smoke DZA and 9th Wonder, who said he sounded familiar to Mf Doom, Joey bad a$$’s idol. Following his recent success of Survival tactics he released the song hard knock. Gaining even more buzz from his latest video, big time young rappers such as Mac Miller began to contact Joey in hopes for a feature verse from the young artist. The mix tape got over a half million downloads. And got mostly positive reviews from magazines such as Pitchfork who gave it an 8/10 and Complex who said it was 8 out of 50 mix tapes that were important in 2012 hip hop thus far.

Rejex
On September 6th, 2012, Bada$$ released his second mix tape, Rejex. Rejex is a collection of tracks that didn't make it onto 1999. Rejex includes more tracks from Joey and rhymed over production and beats made by his admired artist such as Lord Finesse, Madlib and 9th wonder.