Party says he "outgrew" songwriting for others after realizing his music was becoming too personal to sell to anyone else. MTV: Let’s go back into that, because your process, I read about that. MTV: In your music, I hear a lot of conflict. People would call me one too. Yeah, I guess so. How did those drives in California shape the sound of this new record? I linked with him through this other rapper I worked with from Houston, Stockz.
After 17-year-old Party was discovered on MySpace, he left Canada for L.A. He interpolates his native Jamaican Patois in the opening verse, aiming to get on his girlfriend’s friends’ good side. Are you engineering, as well?
And that’s the reason — it just all came together, it looked dope and it just felt like that — it felt right. His latest full-length LP, PARTYMOBILE, is out today through OVO Sound/Warner Records. When he joined the choir as a preteen, he was so advanced for his age that he was bumped up to the program's senior group. It was a program used for scoring movies and stuff. "In my mind I'm like, 'Okay, I gotta pay my mom back this 50 bucks.' Guap might have been crashing on Stockz’ couch when he first moved to LA. Me and Guap probably have about 20 songs on the tuck. So, I guess -- I don’t want to say I was in a relationship with an older woman, but I was friends with an older woman and her needs inspired the song. I know you value your personal privacy, so how do you prepare for the attention after PARTYMOBILE releases?
I was raised in a Jamaican household, all my friends are Jamaican, so we just relate a lot culturally.
PARTY doesn’t mind, though. The first time I saw PARTYNEXTDOOR in person was this March, at a sold-out show at New York's Irving Plaza, where his performance inspired not so much a chorus of support than feverish screams and chanting. In fact, he was still fine-tuning mixes, keeping reference tracks and preliminary streams away from his label until the last second. When he can find the time, he'll work on new beats on the bus, but he won't pick up recording his new EP until April—not because he needs to be in a proper studio, which he actually likes to avoid, but because he needs a clear head. In the two weeks that follow, his tour will snake its way through the midwest, then hop over the Atlantic for a European leg.
Though steeped in melody and story, most of the songs he'd written for other artists were bland, the sort of pop that anyone could sing but by which no one would feel truly represented. Férina, he'll later explain to me, is crew slang for a declaration of approval, the way those of a certain age say "true" or "word." Who else can we expect to hear on PARTYMOBILE?
He also produced three standouts on Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late: "Legend," "Preach," and "Wednesday Night Interlude," the one song on the mixtape that does not feature Drake. Then Drake hit me back like two days later, like, 'Yo, that Party kid's nice!'"
And as soon as I smoked weed, that's when I started writing like that." He once performed as Jahron B., an abbreviated version of his government name, Jahron Anthony Brathwaite. "A lot of things that came out of Toronto were darker at the time," he said. They were both custom sound systems, but I think the quality of the sound in the Range was just so important, and was also very nostalgic to me.
But I would personally rather listen to Jodeci. PartyNextDoor released his third studio album Partymobile back in March, landing at No. Your fans haven’t heard that song ever, and they wanna hear it. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After letting his music do all the talking for two years, OVO singer and producer PARTYNEXTDOOR gave The FADER his first-ever interview, for …
The two music videos he's put out reveal him to be a handsome, brown-skinned man with a nose ring, shadowy beard, and chin-length dreads that he habitually covers with a du-rag or winter cap.
PND: Jodeci, but if my mom was listening I’d say Boyz II Men.
He submitted songs to Justin Bieber and wore his hair in a perm. What was the inspiration behind the title PARTYMOBILE?
Oh, man, my first beats? The Swedish band is turning its back on expectations and entering a new chapter.
"It's not to be annoying or pretentious or purposefully mysterious," he says of Party's rollout.
He's pulling all of the strings, he's doing everything, so you hear his final production exactly the way he envisions it," he says. That’s my big bro. Is waiting and sitting on cuts the hardest part of being a producer? I put songs out that are five years old, the same way I put out songs that are two weeks old.
Man! I’d seen William [Child]’s work on YouTube and it was just so interesting to me. PNDTWO, I didn’t use a lot of Auto-Tune on a lot of my R&B songs, but I don’t care to tell people that because it’s more of a creative thing. If I was making music 10 years ago, I definitely wouldn’t be using it.
Party says he "outgrew" songwriting for others after realizing his music was becoming too personal to sell to anyone else. MTV: Let’s go back into that, because your process, I read about that. MTV: In your music, I hear a lot of conflict. People would call me one too. Yeah, I guess so. How did those drives in California shape the sound of this new record? I linked with him through this other rapper I worked with from Houston, Stockz.
After 17-year-old Party was discovered on MySpace, he left Canada for L.A. He interpolates his native Jamaican Patois in the opening verse, aiming to get on his girlfriend’s friends’ good side. Are you engineering, as well?
And that’s the reason — it just all came together, it looked dope and it just felt like that — it felt right. His latest full-length LP, PARTYMOBILE, is out today through OVO Sound/Warner Records. When he joined the choir as a preteen, he was so advanced for his age that he was bumped up to the program's senior group. It was a program used for scoring movies and stuff. "In my mind I'm like, 'Okay, I gotta pay my mom back this 50 bucks.' Guap might have been crashing on Stockz’ couch when he first moved to LA. Me and Guap probably have about 20 songs on the tuck. So, I guess -- I don’t want to say I was in a relationship with an older woman, but I was friends with an older woman and her needs inspired the song. I know you value your personal privacy, so how do you prepare for the attention after PARTYMOBILE releases?
I was raised in a Jamaican household, all my friends are Jamaican, so we just relate a lot culturally.
PARTY doesn’t mind, though. The first time I saw PARTYNEXTDOOR in person was this March, at a sold-out show at New York's Irving Plaza, where his performance inspired not so much a chorus of support than feverish screams and chanting. In fact, he was still fine-tuning mixes, keeping reference tracks and preliminary streams away from his label until the last second. When he can find the time, he'll work on new beats on the bus, but he won't pick up recording his new EP until April—not because he needs to be in a proper studio, which he actually likes to avoid, but because he needs a clear head. In the two weeks that follow, his tour will snake its way through the midwest, then hop over the Atlantic for a European leg.
Though steeped in melody and story, most of the songs he'd written for other artists were bland, the sort of pop that anyone could sing but by which no one would feel truly represented. Férina, he'll later explain to me, is crew slang for a declaration of approval, the way those of a certain age say "true" or "word." Who else can we expect to hear on PARTYMOBILE?
He also produced three standouts on Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late: "Legend," "Preach," and "Wednesday Night Interlude," the one song on the mixtape that does not feature Drake. Then Drake hit me back like two days later, like, 'Yo, that Party kid's nice!'"
And as soon as I smoked weed, that's when I started writing like that." He once performed as Jahron B., an abbreviated version of his government name, Jahron Anthony Brathwaite. "A lot of things that came out of Toronto were darker at the time," he said. They were both custom sound systems, but I think the quality of the sound in the Range was just so important, and was also very nostalgic to me.
But I would personally rather listen to Jodeci. PartyNextDoor released his third studio album Partymobile back in March, landing at No. Your fans haven’t heard that song ever, and they wanna hear it. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After letting his music do all the talking for two years, OVO singer and producer PARTYNEXTDOOR gave The FADER his first-ever interview, for …
The two music videos he's put out reveal him to be a handsome, brown-skinned man with a nose ring, shadowy beard, and chin-length dreads that he habitually covers with a du-rag or winter cap.
PND: Jodeci, but if my mom was listening I’d say Boyz II Men.
He submitted songs to Justin Bieber and wore his hair in a perm. What was the inspiration behind the title PARTYMOBILE?
Oh, man, my first beats? The Swedish band is turning its back on expectations and entering a new chapter.
"It's not to be annoying or pretentious or purposefully mysterious," he says of Party's rollout.
He's pulling all of the strings, he's doing everything, so you hear his final production exactly the way he envisions it," he says. That’s my big bro. Is waiting and sitting on cuts the hardest part of being a producer? I put songs out that are five years old, the same way I put out songs that are two weeks old.
Man! I’d seen William [Child]’s work on YouTube and it was just so interesting to me. PNDTWO, I didn’t use a lot of Auto-Tune on a lot of my R&B songs, but I don’t care to tell people that because it’s more of a creative thing. If I was making music 10 years ago, I definitely wouldn’t be using it.
Party says he "outgrew" songwriting for others after realizing his music was becoming too personal to sell to anyone else. MTV: Let’s go back into that, because your process, I read about that. MTV: In your music, I hear a lot of conflict. People would call me one too. Yeah, I guess so. How did those drives in California shape the sound of this new record? I linked with him through this other rapper I worked with from Houston, Stockz.
After 17-year-old Party was discovered on MySpace, he left Canada for L.A. He interpolates his native Jamaican Patois in the opening verse, aiming to get on his girlfriend’s friends’ good side. Are you engineering, as well?
And that’s the reason — it just all came together, it looked dope and it just felt like that — it felt right. His latest full-length LP, PARTYMOBILE, is out today through OVO Sound/Warner Records. When he joined the choir as a preteen, he was so advanced for his age that he was bumped up to the program's senior group. It was a program used for scoring movies and stuff. "In my mind I'm like, 'Okay, I gotta pay my mom back this 50 bucks.' Guap might have been crashing on Stockz’ couch when he first moved to LA. Me and Guap probably have about 20 songs on the tuck. So, I guess -- I don’t want to say I was in a relationship with an older woman, but I was friends with an older woman and her needs inspired the song. I know you value your personal privacy, so how do you prepare for the attention after PARTYMOBILE releases?
I was raised in a Jamaican household, all my friends are Jamaican, so we just relate a lot culturally.
PARTY doesn’t mind, though. The first time I saw PARTYNEXTDOOR in person was this March, at a sold-out show at New York's Irving Plaza, where his performance inspired not so much a chorus of support than feverish screams and chanting. In fact, he was still fine-tuning mixes, keeping reference tracks and preliminary streams away from his label until the last second. When he can find the time, he'll work on new beats on the bus, but he won't pick up recording his new EP until April—not because he needs to be in a proper studio, which he actually likes to avoid, but because he needs a clear head. In the two weeks that follow, his tour will snake its way through the midwest, then hop over the Atlantic for a European leg.
Though steeped in melody and story, most of the songs he'd written for other artists were bland, the sort of pop that anyone could sing but by which no one would feel truly represented. Férina, he'll later explain to me, is crew slang for a declaration of approval, the way those of a certain age say "true" or "word." Who else can we expect to hear on PARTYMOBILE?
He also produced three standouts on Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late: "Legend," "Preach," and "Wednesday Night Interlude," the one song on the mixtape that does not feature Drake. Then Drake hit me back like two days later, like, 'Yo, that Party kid's nice!'"
And as soon as I smoked weed, that's when I started writing like that." He once performed as Jahron B., an abbreviated version of his government name, Jahron Anthony Brathwaite. "A lot of things that came out of Toronto were darker at the time," he said. They were both custom sound systems, but I think the quality of the sound in the Range was just so important, and was also very nostalgic to me.
But I would personally rather listen to Jodeci. PartyNextDoor released his third studio album Partymobile back in March, landing at No. Your fans haven’t heard that song ever, and they wanna hear it. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After letting his music do all the talking for two years, OVO singer and producer PARTYNEXTDOOR gave The FADER his first-ever interview, for …
The two music videos he's put out reveal him to be a handsome, brown-skinned man with a nose ring, shadowy beard, and chin-length dreads that he habitually covers with a du-rag or winter cap.
PND: Jodeci, but if my mom was listening I’d say Boyz II Men.
He submitted songs to Justin Bieber and wore his hair in a perm. What was the inspiration behind the title PARTYMOBILE?
Oh, man, my first beats? The Swedish band is turning its back on expectations and entering a new chapter.
"It's not to be annoying or pretentious or purposefully mysterious," he says of Party's rollout.
He's pulling all of the strings, he's doing everything, so you hear his final production exactly the way he envisions it," he says. That’s my big bro. Is waiting and sitting on cuts the hardest part of being a producer? I put songs out that are five years old, the same way I put out songs that are two weeks old.
Man! I’d seen William [Child]’s work on YouTube and it was just so interesting to me. PNDTWO, I didn’t use a lot of Auto-Tune on a lot of my R&B songs, but I don’t care to tell people that because it’s more of a creative thing. If I was making music 10 years ago, I definitely wouldn’t be using it.
"A lot of things that came out of Toronto were darker at the time. MTV: What does that say about your audience? Toronto didn’t get a chance to level up, but we’ll see, we’ll see.
Party says he "outgrew" songwriting for others after realizing his music was becoming too personal to sell to anyone else. MTV: Let’s go back into that, because your process, I read about that. MTV: In your music, I hear a lot of conflict. People would call me one too. Yeah, I guess so. How did those drives in California shape the sound of this new record? I linked with him through this other rapper I worked with from Houston, Stockz.
After 17-year-old Party was discovered on MySpace, he left Canada for L.A. He interpolates his native Jamaican Patois in the opening verse, aiming to get on his girlfriend’s friends’ good side. Are you engineering, as well?
And that’s the reason — it just all came together, it looked dope and it just felt like that — it felt right. His latest full-length LP, PARTYMOBILE, is out today through OVO Sound/Warner Records. When he joined the choir as a preteen, he was so advanced for his age that he was bumped up to the program's senior group. It was a program used for scoring movies and stuff. "In my mind I'm like, 'Okay, I gotta pay my mom back this 50 bucks.' Guap might have been crashing on Stockz’ couch when he first moved to LA. Me and Guap probably have about 20 songs on the tuck. So, I guess -- I don’t want to say I was in a relationship with an older woman, but I was friends with an older woman and her needs inspired the song. I know you value your personal privacy, so how do you prepare for the attention after PARTYMOBILE releases?
I was raised in a Jamaican household, all my friends are Jamaican, so we just relate a lot culturally.
PARTY doesn’t mind, though. The first time I saw PARTYNEXTDOOR in person was this March, at a sold-out show at New York's Irving Plaza, where his performance inspired not so much a chorus of support than feverish screams and chanting. In fact, he was still fine-tuning mixes, keeping reference tracks and preliminary streams away from his label until the last second. When he can find the time, he'll work on new beats on the bus, but he won't pick up recording his new EP until April—not because he needs to be in a proper studio, which he actually likes to avoid, but because he needs a clear head. In the two weeks that follow, his tour will snake its way through the midwest, then hop over the Atlantic for a European leg.
Though steeped in melody and story, most of the songs he'd written for other artists were bland, the sort of pop that anyone could sing but by which no one would feel truly represented. Férina, he'll later explain to me, is crew slang for a declaration of approval, the way those of a certain age say "true" or "word." Who else can we expect to hear on PARTYMOBILE?
He also produced three standouts on Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late: "Legend," "Preach," and "Wednesday Night Interlude," the one song on the mixtape that does not feature Drake. Then Drake hit me back like two days later, like, 'Yo, that Party kid's nice!'"
And as soon as I smoked weed, that's when I started writing like that." He once performed as Jahron B., an abbreviated version of his government name, Jahron Anthony Brathwaite. "A lot of things that came out of Toronto were darker at the time," he said. They were both custom sound systems, but I think the quality of the sound in the Range was just so important, and was also very nostalgic to me.
But I would personally rather listen to Jodeci. PartyNextDoor released his third studio album Partymobile back in March, landing at No. Your fans haven’t heard that song ever, and they wanna hear it. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After letting his music do all the talking for two years, OVO singer and producer PARTYNEXTDOOR gave The FADER his first-ever interview, for …
The two music videos he's put out reveal him to be a handsome, brown-skinned man with a nose ring, shadowy beard, and chin-length dreads that he habitually covers with a du-rag or winter cap.
PND: Jodeci, but if my mom was listening I’d say Boyz II Men.
He submitted songs to Justin Bieber and wore his hair in a perm. What was the inspiration behind the title PARTYMOBILE?
Oh, man, my first beats? The Swedish band is turning its back on expectations and entering a new chapter.
"It's not to be annoying or pretentious or purposefully mysterious," he says of Party's rollout.
He's pulling all of the strings, he's doing everything, so you hear his final production exactly the way he envisions it," he says. That’s my big bro. Is waiting and sitting on cuts the hardest part of being a producer? I put songs out that are five years old, the same way I put out songs that are two weeks old.
Man! I’d seen William [Child]’s work on YouTube and it was just so interesting to me. PNDTWO, I didn’t use a lot of Auto-Tune on a lot of my R&B songs, but I don’t care to tell people that because it’s more of a creative thing. If I was making music 10 years ago, I definitely wouldn’t be using it.