11.7.2022

Big Moochie Grape Keeps It Going From the Inside, Announcing East Haiti Baby: Incarcerated Mixtape, Coming Soon via Paper Route Empire

The Memphis Rapper Shares “Workin,” a Heavy-Hitting New Single

The Follow-Up to Last Year’s East Haiti Baby Mixtape, the Upcoming EHB: Incarcerated Features Guest Appearances Exclusively By Other Incarcerated Artists

Critical Praise:

“It’s hard-working hustler music that never lets up, with a beat that never sleeps. Big Moochie Grape makes soundtracks not just for grinding, but for surviving.” – Pitchfork

“[East Haiti Baby is] an impressive body of work from one of Memphis’s strongest frontrunners.” – HotNewHipHop

The Announcement:

Bursting out of the Memphis scene with his lockstep cadences and force of personality, Big Moochie Grape is one of his city’s rawest rhymers. Unwilling to let his prison sentence stop him from feeding the streets, Moochie announces East Haiti Baby Deluxe: Incarcerated, his upcoming mixtape. The follow-up to last year’s successful East Haiti Baby tape, which chronicled his upbringing in East Memphis, EHB Deluxe: Incarcerated offers lessons from the street-savvy Paper Route Empire signee, and proclamations about his goals once he’s released. In a unique twist that reflects Moochie’s situation, the upcoming mixtape offers featured appearances from several other incarcerated rappers. East Haiti Baby Deluxe: Incarcerated arrives this November via Paper Route Empire.

Along with the announcement of the tape, Big Moochie Grape shares “Workin,” his first new single of 2023. Produced with verve by BandPlay, “Workin” is a Tennessee trap stomper, complete with horror movie keys, defibrillating kick drums, and subsonic 808s. Moochie tramples the track with a stutter-stepping, double-time flow, touting his industriousness and shouting down those who don’t have that dawg in them: “F*ck all these n****s, they never been factors,” asserts the East Memphis native.

Big Moochie Grape burst onto the scene in 2019, with boisterous Memphis rap tunes like “Uh Huh Uh Huh Uh Huh,” which appeared on his debut EP, Eat Or Get Ate. Inspired by his late PRE mentor Young Dolph, Moochie went hard in 2022, releasing East Haiti Baby, home to street hits like the Bandplay-produced “Acting Up” (28 million Spotify streams) and “Christopher Wallace” (10 million Spotify streams). The mixtape earned praise from Pitchfork, who said “the Young Dolph associate’s latest album is full of hard-working hustler music that never lets up.”

With East Haiti Baby Deluxe: Incarcerated coming soon, Big Moochie Grape proves that nothing can stop him from putting in work. Stay tuned for more announcements about the upcoming project.

Stream “Workin'”: https://music.empi.re/workinbigmoochie

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