Having dropped his debut album ‘Dear Annie’, the Irish-footballer-turned-hip-hop-artist talks tripping and touring
- TextBen Perdue
Taken from the S/S18 issue of Another Man:
It was right around the time that everyone in the crowd suddenly looked further away and his body “went weird” that rapper Rejjie Snow realised the weed brownie he’d necked before getting on stage in Leeds was stronger than he’d bargained for. “It didn’t go as bad as I thought it might, but it was pretty different,” he says. “I remember being interviewed afterwards and I was still tripping. That last tour was unreal.”
Snow, born Alex Anyaegbunam, was raised in North Dublin and found hip hop through the graffiti writers he painted with as a kid. He left Ireland at 16 for a failed football scholarship in Florida, studied at art college, then dropped out and began putting his music on YouTube. And since blowing up in 2013 with killer EP, Rejovich, he has collaborated with the likes of Joey Badass and Kendrick Lamar producer, Rahki.
So it pays testament to his talent for creating funk-infused acid rap that he’s attracted emerging stars Kaytranada and Dana Williams to work on his new album, Dear Annie. Let alone have Parisian wonder-kid Lewis Ofman producing. “I still wouldn’t call myself a musician though, I haven’t earned that right yet.” Sounds like Snow’s tripping again.
