{"id":486948,"date":"2019-06-12T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=847464"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:36:30","slug":"the-first-time-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-first-time-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: A Boogie wit da Hoodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aboogie_thumb0052.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/boogie-wit-da-hoodie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boogie-wit-da-hoodie\" data-tag=\"boogie-wit-da-hoodie\">A Boogie wit da Hoodie<\/a> was in Florida when his producer Mr. Whyte came to him with a beat that would become one of the rapper\u2019s earliest songs, \u201cTemporary.\u201d A Boogie was ready to record, but there was a slight problem: \u201cI was on house arrest at the time, so I couldn\u2019t really leave my house,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d \u201cBut [Mr. Whyte] was like, \u2018You ain\u2019t got no anklet \u2014 we out!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elsewhere in the episode, A Boogie talks about focusing on music from a young age, constantly carrying a notebook with him around school, but using it to write lyrics instead of actually doing classwork. He also chats about honing is craft in private, not wanting to rap in front of his friends or even his mom (\u201cI didn\u2019t even want my mom to hear me curse!\u201d he cracks), and the story behind his record label Highbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt came as much from being in the hood, being bored a lot, and wanting to make a lot, a lot of money, and not thinking short term,\u201d he says. \u201cBecause you think short term, you think a hussle, you thinking this, you don\u2019t even think you can get a job. I feel like we picked the best choice for us when it comes to music \u2014 the way we started this damn label man, it wasn\u2019t easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Later in the episode, A Boogie talks about growing confident in his music and his career, as well as finding his voice after being heartbroken. But when asked to describe that heartbreak, A Boogie demurs, joking, \u201cNah, my girl don\u2019t like that shit. I\u2019m tired of these arguments, bro. I just said her name in a fucking song and I had to take it out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-first-time-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-847464\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boogie wit da Hoodie was in Florida when his producer Mr. Whyte came to him with a beat that would become one of the rapper\u2019s earliest songs, \u201cTemporary.\u201d A Boogie was ready to record, but there was a slight problem: \u201cI was on house arrest at the time, so I couldn\u2019t really leave my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 02:04:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}