And you chase this American dream of being wealthy.
The mixtape’s opening track, “Humble Beginnings,” sets the stage for the personal project, as Bazzi rhymes “nothing doesn't make you who you are, 'cause money buys designer shirts to wear over your scars" and "grateful for it all, but my wealth is in my heart." The Pop Shop asked him if that mantra was something he learned from growing up, or was that something he learned the hard way when he started to get successful? Because they didn't fit the story and the relevance of the music.” “So, there wasn't any specific elements or, you know, tastes and flavors I was trying to stick to … It was a conscious decision those songs, because I had a bunch of songs I didn't put on the project. “I think the story I was telling was a very broad one - which is just my life,” he says. This is the dirt and existence of where I am, where I came from.”ĭid Bazzi set out with an intention to tell a specific story on the 11-track Soul Searching? I wanted people to really hear my story and listen to it like that.” To Bazzi, mixtapes in general feel more “home grown,” as if the artist is saying, “This is the root. Cosmic felt a little bit more commercial, you know what I'm saying? So, I wanted to do that so people would look at the entire project rather than look for a couple of star tracks that are singles or whatever. It's a lot about how I grew up, and how I think, and my own personal struggles.
“I think for me, historically, a mixtape has always been a very cohesive story,” Bazzi tells the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen to the full interview, below) about how he views the difference between a mixtape and an album. The effort includes his latest Hot 100 hit, “Paradise.”
Today, Bazzi is focused on his new mixtape, Soul Searching, which dropped on Aug. He then claimed another top 40 hit on the Hot 100 (and a top 10 on Pop Songs) with “Beautiful,” featuring Camila Cabello.įast forward to the present, and the artist and songwriter has earned more than 2 billion on-demand streams for his catalog of songs in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. The track later topped the Pop Songs airplay chart, and was followed by the release of his full-length major label album Cosmic, which hit the top 20 on the Billboard 200. Back in February of 2018, he made his Billboard Hot 100 chart debut with his hit single “Mine,” which eventually climbed to No. Bazzi has been a very busy man the past year-and-a-half.
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