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"Yo, Pi'erre, you wanna come out here?" the tag that sparked his ubiquity, a bit of Auto-Tune, a range of delivery from breathy sing-song to barring up, plus a whipping carnival ride of sounds and anecdotes on getting paid, laid and staying prayed up can be heard across tracks like "Guillotine," "Poof," "Hacked My Instagram” and "4U," among others. Since 2014, Pi'erre's dropped seven solo projects that feature his resonant rhymes and another seven joint efforts serving as producer. Stellar Pi'erre production on Carti and Lil Uzi Vert’s "Wokeuplikethis*," Young Nudy's "EA," Travis Scott's "Watch" featuring Uzi and Kanye, Uzi's "Bean (Kobe)" featuring Chief Keef, Juice Wrld and Young Thug’s "Bad Boy," Drake and Carti's "Pain 1993," Thug's "Surf" featuring Gunna, Ye's "On God" and 6ix9ine's "Gummo," plus many others, have contributed to P’s multiplatinum success as a producer.īut the artist's ability to rap has always been his focus despite some being late to the party. We're still curating the music even if we do or do not get credit for it." "Everybody's thriving off of stuff like that. "All these little n***as sound like TLOP 4 leaks, TLOP 5 leaks, Carti leaks," Pi'erre maintains of the sound many rappers seem to be pushing today that stems from his originality. Trap 808s, radiant synths and sweeping melodies. Ebullient beats dripping in color and quality. An anomaly at the time, his impact on the next generation of hip-hop's youth as a contemporary producer is evident. He’s a pioneer for a generation of SoundCloud rap that has elevated tenfold. Producing Playboi Carti's three-times platinum 2017 smash "Magnolia" thrust P into rap’s purview and winning a Grammy award for his production work on Kanye West’s 2019 Jesus Is King album earned P further respect. Though he’s been pushing his own solo artistry to the forefront from the start, his talents behind the boards brought him critical acclaim first. Over two decades later, Pi'erre has achieved his childhood dream.
That's when I was like, Yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life." “So, when I got done, I put the paper down, and I looked up and everyone was doing this,” he begins clapping, recreating the positive reception he got that day. A tween with a bit of stage fright back then, Pi'erre began reading the lyrics he wrote. "They were like, 'Who in here raps?' And I’m about to raise my hand, and all the little kids are like, 'Him, he raps," recalls the 28-year-old hip-hop doyen, as he sits in a purple-lit lounge at Universal Music Group's New York City office on a sunny April day.
Once his classmates returned, his teacher brought in a DJ for a special event. After he got in trouble for hitting another student and was prohibited from attending a school field trip, Pi'erre was forced into three days of "torture" with the younger kids, which he spent writing rhymes. While artists behind the boards and in the booth alike are emulating his sound, the multihyphenate's focus is on elevating his own rap career.Įditor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2022 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.Ī jab Pi'erre Bourne threw in the fifth grade, ignited by a game of punch buggy, no punch backs, is the catalyst for the celebrated rapper and producer’s current career. Pi'erre Bourne's career highlights as a producer have ensconced him in pioneer territory.
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