Shwayze
Although the Jamie Kennedy movie Malibu's Most Wanted posited that the beachside Los Angeles suburb is so upper class and lily white that the only rappers it can produce are rich teenagers fronting gangsta poses, real-life Malibu resident Shwayze begs to differ. He's in touch enough with movie culture that his handle is a corruption of the surname of the star of Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse, and his musical mentor is Cisco Adler, son of multi-millionaire record producer Lou Adler, most notorious for a hugely unflattering nude photo widely circulated on the Internet while Adler was dating TV star Mischa Barton, as well as a stint on a short-lived VH1 reality series, The Rock Life. Shwayze claims to have grown up in a comparatively tough trailer park in one of Malibu's less prosperous neighborhoods. Born Aaron Smith in 1986, legend has it Shwayze was working as an assistant to his handyman grandfather in 2005 when he began an impromptu on-stage freestyle with a friend, drummer Alex Orbison, prior to a local gig by Orbison's band Whitestarr. Adler, Whitestarr's singer/songwriter, was impressed enough with the young rapper that he started collaborating with him. Co-writing the songs with Adler producing, the duo came up with a mellow, largely acoustic sound akin to a hip-hop Jack Johnson, far removed from the glammy Southern rock revivalism of Adler's own band.
Shwayze signed to Geffen Records sublabel Suretone in 2007 and his self-titled debut album was released the following year, preceded by the single "Don't Be Shy" and followed by a stint on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. The album yielded the hit singles "Corona and Lime" and "Buzzin'," the latter of which became the title of the duo's short-lived reality show, which aired on MTV during the summer of 2008. A year later they returned with the electro-influenced album Let It Beat along with the single "Get U Home." Following a few free mixtapes and EPs, the duo released Island in the Sun in 2011 on their own Bananabeat Records. The release was credited to Shwayze & Cisco Adler rather than just Shwayze, in order to avoid confusion. However, Shwayze and Adler ceased working with each other after the album's release. Shwayze's first release without Adler was the 2012 EP Shwayzed and Confused, followed by the full-length Shwayze Summer in 2013. His EP King of the Summer appeared in 2015.
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Surf Trap
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Always by Couture - Feel Good ENT le 17 juil. 2020
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Hate Me
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Always by Couture - Feel Good ENT le 10 juil. 2020
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Just Friends
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez LAW Records le 19 mai 2023
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Shwayzed and Confused - EP
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Big Bad - Feel Good Music le 13 nov. 2012
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Matthew Mcconaughey
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Shwayze le 26 juin 2020
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Kick Back
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Ineffable Records le 13 oct. 2023
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Live At The Hollywood Palladium
Pop - Paru chez Live Nation le 1 janv. 2010
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Breathe In
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Ineffable Records le 27 mai 2022
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Matthew Mcconaughey (La Felix Remix)
Disco - Paru chez Inspiration Factory - SunPop Music le 8 janv. 2021
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Coastline (feat. Wildcard)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Feel Good Ent le 7 juil. 2017
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Romeo & Juliette
Reggae - Paru chez Ineffable Records le 29 juin 2023
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I Pray
Alternatif et Indé - À paraître le 31 mai 2024 chez Ineffable Records
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