HotNewHipHop premiered the highly anticipated new mixtape, The Golden Age, from Funk Volume rapper Dizzy Wright. The 22-track tape features an impressive roster of guest rappers and producers, including Funk Volume family members Hopsin, Jarren Benton, SwizZz, and DJ Hoppa, as well as Joey Bada$$, Wyclef, Logic, Kirk Knight, Tory Lanez, Honey Cocaine, Kid Ink, SupaHotBeats, Cardo, AF Supreme, and many more. The mixtape comes on the heels of an incredibly successful year that saw Dizzy named as one of XXL Magazine’s Freshmen Class of 2013, and performing nonstop doing tours and festival dates around the country and abroad.
The mixtape draws inspiration from the storytelling element of the 90’s, an era to which the title of the tape refers. “I wanted to bring back the 90s,” says Dizzy, “I feel like people appreciated music a little more in the past. In 2013 our flow should be developed and mixed with substance. We should be talking about something, not wasting any bars. The most important thing is substance.” Some of this substantive content comes directly from Dizzy’s notorious “smoked-out” conversations with fans and friends around him but sometimes he simply lets the mood and feel of a beat draw out subject matter. His artistic process is continually evolving and growing.
Dizzy also confidently asserts that he and his team have raised the bar across all aspects of his new material. “The production is better [on The Golden Age],” he says, “The team of people around me have grown. The producers have learned from what we’ve done before and they’ve stepped it up. That puts me on a level to just talk that shit.” There are several messages Dizzy hopes to communicate with the new mixtape but overall themes of growth, self-acceptance ,and positivity abound on tracks like “Killem With Kindness,” “We Turned Out Alright” featuring Wyclef, and “World Peace.”
“It’s important to be you, to talk about the shit you know about, whatever that is,” he says, “People should grow to be something better, not just an image. You are teaching other people. I believe in being a man and wanting to be better.” Ultimately Dizzy believes in the evolution of hip-hop in general, and he aims to be a part of a new era that pushes the genre forward while maintaining reverence for what has come before. ” ‘New History’ is the last track on the tape, and I feel like that’s what this all is,” he says, “With Funk Volume, everything that we’re doing, everything that we’re creating. It’s all going to be part of a new history.” Dizzy will begin The Golden Age Tour on September 7th in San Diego, CA. The tour will also feature New York rapper Emilio Rojas, and is presented by Funk Volume and HotNewHipHop and sponsored by Gig It.
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