
YouTube that, in about a week, has amassed a quarter-million views. To celebrate the release of Limbo, Aminé released a live show on “All that came out because I had extra time,” Aminé says.

Spritely “Compensating,” pensive “Can’t Decide,” candid “My Reality” and braggadocios It was in these sessions that standouts on Limbo were crystalized, like the The west coast and traveled to Toronto to work with producers (and friends), But, perhaps even more important than either of thoseīenefits, Aminé now had more time to craft his sophomore LP in full. The mixtape gave Aminé another hit and allowed him to go onĪ new global tour. Give myself more time, I put out my mixtape, OnePointFive, which did a lot for me.” “But I knew I had to put out music,” Aminé says. Was going to take longer to construct the cohesive work than he’d first As he began to build the album, though, he realized it Ideas, things that had bubbled up from long stints on the road, along withįresh ideas and flows. Hopped in the studio almost immediately and began putting down new thoughts and Aminé began the record directly coming off tour for his debut While “Caroline” was the start to Aminé’s career, Limbo will prove to be a giant leapįorward still. “After high school,” he says, “I couldn’t use that equipmentĪnymore because I didn’t go there anymore. In those car rides to school with his mother. But it also unexpectedly flamed the spark that had sprouted He and his peers were supposed toīe doing schoolwork, but instead they used the old mics and equipment toįreestyle over popular beets they played from YouTube. Me want to have that deeper connection with music, too.”Īminé recalls later being in class for radio programing inīenson Polytechnic High School in Portland.

Seen someone know the words to so many songs until I saw my mom sing. “It made me have a deeper connection with music, From Limbo, there is a direct line to artists like Tupac, Michael Jackson and Keith Urban. Today, Aminé, who recently dropped his latest record, Limbo, is one of the most popular lyricists on the scene and he’s become so thanks, in large part, to the support of his family and friends.

Those early morning trips, which seemed commonplace at the time, would provide both the spark and the foundation for the artist’s burgeoning, now-global career. Aminé (born Adam Aminé Daniel), the fantastically popular Portland, Oregon-based rapper, who rose to fame with his 2016 song, “ Caroline,” remembers listening to music in the car on the way to school with his mother.
