Day: September 5, 2015

Bay Area rapper Symba has been showcasing a fiery collection of songs with his universal sound, balancing club-ready hooks with deft, incisive narratives. Today, he’s releasing his 13-track sophomore album, 2 More Words, which features Iamsu!, Young Gully, Marc E. Bassy, YMTK, and more, via HYPETRAK. The honest, street anthem-filled album holds production that leans from post-hyphy mob music heard on “How You Rockin” to dramatic, key-swirling songs like “Welcome to Fame.” “I feel in my career right now, I’m just figuring out who Symba is – I know who I am as a person but Symba is a lil’ different, and this project is me finding Symba,” he explains. “It’s now or never with what I’m doing, I gotta go hard for where I’m at now, mentally and physically or I never will… I’m proud of the way it sounds. It sounds like me, it doesn’t sound like any other artist, the beats, the mix, the content, some of the controversial shit I say. It’s just different, I’m glad that it’s not what nobody else is doing or talking about.” Watch a video introducing the project here. 2 More Words is Symba’s first project since his 2013 EP, Young Nate Nino, which channels Wesley Snipes in the film New Jack City. “Not following your usual Bay Area formula, Symba attacks the microphone with more aggressive tracks instead of the party or club lane.” ONSMASH explained in their coverage of the EP. The album also serves as the successor to