07.20.2020
Project: Baby Smoove – I’m Still Perfect
Riding Production from Rocaine, Michigan Meech, and Topisde, The Detroit Native Sharpens His Pen, Shares 15 New Endlessly Quotable Rap Gems
Critical Praise:
“He knows that any combination of words he strings together automatically turns into poetry” – Pitchfork
“Baby Smoove loves a lot of things: shopping, smoking, and talking about the cost of what he bought and smoked. He also happens to be really good at rapping…that unbothered personality is part of Baby Smoove’s appeal, in addition to an ear for piano melodies and a natural prowess for lyrics made for Instagram captions.” – Pitchfork
“Detroit rapper Baby Smoove’s [I’m Still Perfect] album is one of my favorite projects of the year so far. He got a lot of initial hype for his unmistakable style: subdued yet powerful, like a dormant volcano. But spend some time with I’m Still Perfect and Smoove will show you a sensitive artist who’s as deep in his feelings as he is in the streets.” – The FADER
“He mumbles each flex, barely getting the words before laughing at his own audacity.” – The FADER
The Project:
Rhyming with a seductive nonchalance about his life of luxury, Detroit rapper Baby Smoove is one of his city’s flyest stylists. Loudly touting his lack of flaws, Baby Smoove shares I’m Still Perfect, his latest project. With assistance from fellow D-Town natives like Rocaine, Topside, and Michigan Meech behind the boards, Baby veers from pep talks to put downs, effortlessly stringing together quotables atop melodramatic movie soundtrack strings (“Sleep Walking”), 8-bit harp arpeggios (“Drank-Juice“), or hard-charging Detroit-style instrumentals (“Lonewolf“). The young rapper approaches beats from unexpected angles, using his deliberate rhyming pace and soft delivery to force listeners to pay close attention to his words: “I bet a dime you ain’t got a dime/VS make you blind/Sent a hit, it’s a homicide/I ain’t never lied,” rhymes Smoove on album opener “The New Smoove.”
“I’m perfect for life,” says Baby Smoove. “It goes over people’s heads. When you say, that I’m full of myself, or I love me…I’m still me. I know every project I drop goes 40 times harder than the last one. You think I was full of myself last year? Guess what…I’m even more full of myself. I literally love me. My sh*t literally doesn’t stink.”
Along with the project, Baby Smoove shared “Losing My Mind Pt. 2,” his latest music video (89k views since its release this weekend). The sequel to a 2018 cut from Smoove’s I’m Still Serious mixtape, which features a similarly atmospheric and mysterious beat from Michigan Meech, “Losing My Mind Pt. 2” demonstrates how much Baby Smoove has improved as an emcee in just two years. Tossing off threats through a wry grin, Smoove makes sure everyone knows he’s self-made: “Came up on my own, I ain’t have no big homie/I ain’t have no co-sign so you can’t Lil Bro me.” In the video, directed by JuddyRemixDem, Smoove tours Detroit in his white Hellcat, before getting faded with homies in a neighborhood driveway.
His first full-length project of 2020, I’m Still Perfect features previously released tracks “Dirty Faygo” and “Palm Angels.” The new project follows a busy 2019, which saw the rapper releasing new projects, Baby, Flawless, Mr.Perfect, and Purple Heart, each highlighting a different aspect of his personality, and dropping his underground hit “Akorn” (over 5 million YouTube views and 2 million streams on Spotify). Praised in publications like Pitchfork and The FADER, Baby Smoove is only getting started on his mission to convince the world of his perfection.
Buy/Stream I’m Still Perfect: Spotify | Apple
Watch “Losing My Mind Pt. 2”: https://youtu.be/DUW8lD0S81k
I’m Still Perfect tracklist:
- The New Smoove (Prod. by Rocaine)
- Losing My Mind Pt.2 (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
- Dirty Faygo (Prod. by Rocaine)
- Risk It All Pt.2 (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
- Phenergan (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
- You & Me (Prod. by Okay Jones)
- Drank-Juice (Prod. by Ace Cino)
- I Can’t Believe It but It’s True (Prod. by Topside)
- Settle Down Pt.2 (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
- Sleep Walking (Prod. by Rocaine)
- It’s Up (Prod. by Rocaine)
- Palm Angels (Prod. by Rocaine)
- Oh My God (Prod. by Topside)
- 1 Time. (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
- Lonewolf (Prod. by Michigan Meech)
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Links:
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I’m Still Perfect: Spotify | Apple
“Losing My Mind Pt. 2”: https://youtu.be/DUW8lD0S81k
“Dirty Faygo”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmTuGqrbmII
“Palm Angels”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWS3SMTMWQ
Practice EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/2eS0RUjuGceRnkWTX4q0L8?si=lTA9j5pxQ9-qJEAR1kff6w