8.28.2020
Album: wifisfuneral – PAIN?
The South Florida Rapper Embraces Melody On His Engaging New Project, with Appearances from Coi Leray and Smoove’L
Critical Praise:
“[wifisfuneral] displays an impressive array of verbal acrobatics, showing off masterful breath control and a rapid fire flow.” – Pitchfork
“He’s synthesized the regionless, borderless world of the internet age from which he takes his name, while lacing it with a narcotically addictive flow and a distinct ear for melody that’s allowed him to develop while others stagnate.” – NOISEY
“The young rapper has a wide range of skills, from agile raps and bass-heavy tracks to dark and moody slow-burners, and his unpredictability is part of his appeal” – Pigeons & Planes
The Album:
Throwing himself into his new artistic direction, wifisfuneral is ready to turn heads with his emotional songwriting. Turning a new leaf in his career, wifisfuneral shares PAIN?, his engaging new album. Giving his tight flows a tuneful lift, PAIN? is a dramatic change in direction from wifi’s previous albums, fully-integrating auto-tune assisted melodies into his cerebral songs. The album veers from romantic devotionals, to X-rated sex jams, to expressions of loneliness, as wifi’s voice expresses the deeply-felt emotion reflected in his lyrics.
PAIN? is home to several well-received singles, most notably the expansive lo-fi pop gem “Lost In Time“ ft. Coi Leray, as well as the recently-released explicit jam “Back Ache” and the Smoove’L-featuring “Ocean.” The 23-year-old rapper showcased album highlights with performance videos, including clips for ride-or-die lead single “End Of Story” and the chilled-out “All In.”
Along with the album, wifi shares the space-time warping video for “Lost In Time.” A lo-fi pop banger driven by distorted low-end and wifi’s creative vocal performance, “Lost In Time” is a romantic duet with Coi Leray, as both vocalists attempt to escape a vicious cycle of breaking up and making up, determined not to waste their youth on a relationship that can’t be fixed. Directed by Silver Spoon, the video is an expansive head trip, focusing and wifi and Leray as they travel across exotic locations in search of one another. They exist in the same space, but they can’t seem to exist at the same time.
Praised by Stereogum, XXL, HotNewHipHop, Lyrical Lemonade, and more, wifi’s new music shows another side of the 2018 XXL Freshman, and heralds even brighter things to come. Featuring an additional appearance from Mariah Angeliq, PAIN? is available everywhere via Alamo Records.
Buy/Stream PAIN?: http://smarturl.it/PainWifisfuneral
Watch “Lost In Time” ft. Coi Leray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW40drW8uMI
PAIN? tracklist:
1. Lost In Time ft. Coi Leray
2. End of Story
3. What It Is?
4. Guy Like Me
5. Hills
6. Backache
7. Take Me Away
8. Motion
9. Front 2 Back Side 2 Side
10. Ocean ft. Smoove’L
11. All In
12. Day Switch
13. Screw Up
14. End of Story (Pt. 2) ft. Mariah Angeliq
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The Background:
22-year-old South Florida rapper wifisfuneral has taken his dark sonics, mature-beyond-his-years lyrics, and trunk rattling bass from the streets of Palm Beach to the world, amassing over 1.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify and over 700,000 followers on various social media platforms. wifisfuneral’s growth has been organic and cult-like, with his fans spreading his music like wildfire with each and every release. With virtually zero promotion other than his social media presence, wifisfuneral’s independent projects Black Heart Revenge (May 27th, 2016) and When Hell Falls (January 27, 2017) reached #69 and #17 on the iTunes hip-hop charts respectively, resulting in a label deal with Alamo and Interscope Records. His major label debut mixtape, Boy Who Cried Wolf, received critical acclaim, with two of the tracks earning placement in the Spotify’s coveted Most Necessary playlist. His latest mixtape, Ethernet, was released in June 2018 via Alamo Records. In 2018, wifisfuneral was officially named to the XXL Freshman List and reached #1 on YouTube’s trending chart. In 2019, wifi headlined two nationwide tours, released two follow-up EPs to Ethernet, and collaborated with Robb Bank$ on the Conn3ct3d project.
Links:
official site | soundcloud | twitter | instagram | tumblr | spotify
Bio, photos, music, and more for wifisfuneral can be found at www.audibletreats.com/wifisfuneral
PAIN?: http://smarturl.it/PainWifisfuneral
“Lost In Time” ft. Coi Leray: http://smarturl.it/LostInTimeWifi / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW40drW8uMI
“Back Ache”: http://smarturl.it/BackAcheWifisfuneral
“All In” Performance: https://youtu.be/oLCRkK4RO68
“Ocean”: http://smarturl.it/OceanWifisfuneral
“End Of Story”: http://smarturl.it/EndOfStory / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2imgkFvqU4