I love that Joey's music sounds so different than the other stuff coming from his age group & has more of a classic New York sound.

At first glance, 17-year-old Joey Bada$$ is like any of the cool kids at school: confident, and reluctant to reveal his secrets. On a Thursday after school, Joey and his Pro-Era crew assembled at Brooklyn's Dunham Studios --backpacks filled with laptops, laptops filled with loops-- to create a new song, from scratch. Within minutes, the beat Chuck Strangers made only the night before sent Joey searching the insides of his eyelids for bars beyond his years. "Daily Routine," the first in Yours Truly and Adidas Originals "Songs From Scratch" series, was written right there on the couch in the control room and will be available for free download tomorrow.

This joint sound like its gonna be ill. 3 upcoming MCs out of NY. No egos or none of that. Shouts to Jungle Gym Magazine.

We're back after last week's break. Today we got Joey Bada$$ and the whole Pro-Era up at the studio. Tune in and learn about the young upcoming MC and his crew. If you have any questions, tweet it to us before the end of the show.

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Today's DWND Radio guest released a couple of things over the last few days. Familiarize yourself with the young dude before today's show. 1999 coming soon. We'll be talking about that today ofcourse.



DOWNLOAD: Joey Bada$$ - World Domination

Joey didn't put this on his 1999 project so he blessed me with it for GoodTalk vol.10. "Catharsis" meaning the cleansing in greek for all u slow mutherfuckers Right . His 1st official BK show is the 27th @ the knittting Factory with his Pro Era crew. We are throwing it with the homies from Creative Control , Noisey & Vice come by & enjoy the Beast Coast GoodTalk - Shipes

Enjoy this free verse from Joey Bada$$. I got some news involving dude too so I suggest you listen into DWND Radio at 6.

Influenced by the likes of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, Joey began to take rapping seriously as he got older. Now he is the stand-out among his Progressive Era crew, a collective of 18 rappers, producers, graphic designers and studio engineers. The young man’s buzz even caught the attention of Mac Miller, who featured Joey on “America,” a track off of his recently released Macadelic mixtape.

All this and Joey hasn’t even dropped his first mixtape, though he estimates that 1999 will come shortly. The recent attention has him ready to step up. “Now I feel like I gotta give them something greater,” he said. “I’m just stressing myself out trying to do something amazing.”

This kid is 17. Listen to these 2 joints and then think about what I just told you. 1999 is set to release sometime late in March. Joey BadA$$ is definitely someone to look out for.