WESTSIDE BOOGIE

Compton rapper Westside Boogie was raised in Long Beach on gospel music and gangbanging, which later informed a sound that positioned him between Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper. After bubbling in the underground for much of the late 2010s, he signed with Shady Records and issued his debut full-length, Everything's for Sale, in 2019. His second album, the more confessional More Black Superheroes, arrived in 2022. Born Anthony Dixson, he originally performed as simply Boogie, issuing his debut mixtape, Thirst 48, in 2014. A year later, he released The Reach and the viral ...