Blueface is, perhaps above all, a first-rate character actor of the meme era, right down to the tattoo of Benjamin Franklin that creeps from his right ear all the way to the middle of his cheek. “Every rapper, I don’t give a what they tell you, they got two different personalities - they not like that when they at home.” In a genre that’s long been burdened with the expectations of authenticity bumping up against the dictates of entertainment, such candor is refreshing, and utterly reasonable.Īs rising-star origin stories go, this is rather unromantic, but telling of the times. “Blueface is probably 10 times Johnathan,” he said. Unlike most rappers, he openly describes Blueface as a character. The slow-tempo bacchanal full of nearly whispered boasts was originally released last summer, but has recently exploded: first as a viral sensation with accompanying dances, and lately via a couple of remixes - one, with YG, to bolster its street authority, and a second, with Cardi B, to ease its path into pop ubiquity. The unlikely and wild moments are arriving ever more quickly these days, now that Blueface has catapulted from local Los Angeles rap notoriety to national ubiquity thanks to his single “Thotiana,” which recently reached No. When the 22-year-old rapper born Johnathan Porter posts these happenings on his Instagram story, he often gives the camera a little flat-affect eyebrow-raise, a Jim Halpert out in the hip-hop wilds. Recently, seated in first class on a flight, he ran his phone camera over the sea of other people in cushioned seats, smiled and implored his viewers to “say hello to all my Caucasian friends.” When he asks women in the crowd at concerts to lift up their shirts, they oblige. A couple of weeks ago, he was paid $20,000 to perform two songs at the opening of a boutique. For Blueface, everything is still new, and a little surprising.
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