![]() The Purist: A desire to make something better than the dreary, played out boom bap hip-hop which I would say is prevalent in the U.K. What would you say is the common ground you both share that’s really been the catalyst for this album? We just dropped the vinyl, and it sold out in five minutes, so yeah, that alone made it worthwhile! The album has been really well received, so must not grumble. This has been four years in the making, right? What has it been like seeing it through? In an interview with Rolling Stone India, Sonnyjim and The Purist talk about their association, the collaborators on White Girl Wasted and India plans. Pop culture is wholly at the center of the slinky and slick hip-hop of White Girl Wasted, the references to Better Call Sauland South Asian heritage dropped alongside copious shoutouts to all kinds of psychotropic substances.Īlso See Action Meets Romance In 'Gyeongseong Creature' “Our initial cover concept was with a famous American porn actress, that fell through due to Covid and we ended up here.” Shout out to David Bars and Gary Bartz – if they had ever done a song together guess what it would be called….Barz Simpson! anyway the next day I woke up and had the idea for Bart with the doom mask and rest is history.” To this, The Purist offers up a bit of trivia. ![]() He adds about the “Barz Simpson” artwork, “The song was called something else initially and then one day we were high on ’shrooms chatting the breeze. Sonnyjim says they did their due diligence and got all their rights cleared to adapt characters for the artwork. After all, “Barz Simpson” put Bart Simpson in the inimitable MF DOOM mask, while the album art sees Homer with a bong in hand and surrounded by what can best be described as a treasure trove of Simpsons references. With the self-titled album White Girl Wasted out now, we know that the duo share a common love for long-running animated T.V. More than that, it also set the tone for their half-jokey yet gritty kind of psychedelic rap that borrows heavily from pop culture. ![]() Earlier this year, Birmingham-bred rapper Sonnyjim and London’s DJ-producer The Purist released their first song under the project White Girl Wasted, “Barz Simpson.” In addition to being a groovy bop, it also featured a posthumous verse from American hip-hop great MF DOOM and rapper-producer Jay Electronica. ![]()
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