{"id":792128,"date":"2019-01-17T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780428"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:28:26","slug":"a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-performs-look-back-at-it-amid-a-week-of-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-performs-look-back-at-it-amid-a-week-of-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boogie Wit da Hoodie Performs \u2018Look Back At It\u2019 Amid a Week of Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-seth-meyers.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/boogie-wit-da-hoodie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie<\/a> is having one of the biggest weeks of his life. His album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/boogie-wit-da-hoodie-szn-album-review-772697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hoodie SZN<\/em><\/a> is number one in the country and he has four songs on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. To cap off the week, he performed a medley of \u201cDrowning\u201d and \u201cLook Back At It\u201d on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-night-with-seth-meyers\" data-tag=\"late-night-with-seth-meyers\">Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a><\/em>. Surrounded by a sparse band and a DJ, Boogie gently sang his ode to a partner who has never made love, but is surprisingly good at it.<\/p>\n<p>The Highbridge rapper\u2019s recent chart-topping accomplishment was met with skepticism in the media. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8493282\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-first-number-1-album-billboard-200-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, Hoodie SZN set a record for a number one record for the lowest number of units sold since the chart integrated streams and other consumption into its rankings, only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charts-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-823-copies-number-one-779069\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing 823 physical copies in sales<\/a>\u00a0and capturing an essentially streaming-only audience. During an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2019\/01\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-everyday-struggle-hoodie-szn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Complex<\/em>\u2018s Everyday Struggle<\/a> he made sure to address the hate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sound like they trying to discredit my shit. I\u2019mma keep it a buck,\u201d A Boogie said. \u201cBut at the same time it\u2019s like, I don\u2019t give a fuck because I just went brazy. I did 90 units the first week. 50-something the second week. 50-something again, the same number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t deny real music \u2014 like good music \u2014 you can\u2019t deny that shit. That shit live forever, for real for real. And a lot of songs on this album is like forever lasting,\u201d he continued. \u201cHow many did I like, 83 almost a hundred million streams right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-look-back-at-it-on-late-night-with-seth-meyers-780428\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is having one of the biggest weeks of his life. His album Hoodie SZN is number one in the country and he has four songs on the Billboard Hot 100. To cap off the week, he performed a medley of \u201cDrowning\u201d and \u201cLook Back At It\u201d on Late Night with [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:10:09","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}