{"id":35772,"date":"2025-07-31T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/amine-interview-new-album-azealia-banks-karma-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:15:58","slug":"amine-interview-new-album-azealia-banks-karma-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/amine-interview-new-album-azealia-banks-karma-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Amin\u00e9 Interview &#8211; New Album, Azealia Banks, Karma and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Sweet Life<\/span><br \/>Amin\u00e9 has brought sunshine to the game for over a decade. Armed with a new album and his colorful personality, there are no clouds in his forecast.<br \/><em>Words: Georgette Cline<\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Editor\u2019s Note: This story appears in the\u00a0Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands\u00a0now and available for sale on the XXL website.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seasons change, but there\u2019s one that stays the same in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/amine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amin\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJ42EmExH5C\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Jumping around<\/a> onstage with dreads flying and fans screaming around him, the Portland, Ore. native tears through <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/1kHUc1GdwFl5QMwIsdVGc3?si=7121eb93894d407c\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cArc de Triomphe,\u201d<\/a> The Streets\u2019-sampled track from his new album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5B4zpYhcIOJXQO7YWBh0LE?si=a8iSp6sxRuW3HKDjBPccWg\" target=\"_blank\">13 Months of Sunshine<\/a><\/em>. As the crowd shouts the standout lyrics, \u201cThe f**k you be on?\u201d Amin\u00e9\u2019s white T-shirt says it all: Spring, Amin\u00e9, Fall, Winter. The 31-year-old rapper has become synonymous with summer, making upbeat, feel-good songs soaked in sunny production with all the requisite flexes to evoke a two-step and head nod. He\u2019s the paragon of the Vitamin D genre.<\/p>\n<p>For the last eight years, the artist with Ethiopian and Eritrean roots has shared his kaleidoscopic energy on albums like his 2017 debut, <em>Good For You<\/em>, and the Kaytranada joint effort <em>Kaytramin\u00e9<\/em> in 2023. Amin\u00e9\u2019s made it tangible, too, through CLBN (Club Banana), the clothing brand he created in 2016 and a showcase for his sneaker collaborations with New Balance. But before all that, Amin\u00e9 was deep in the SoundCloud trenches, combining his passion for rapping over spirited dance tracks in 2014, which helped launch his career.<\/p>\n<p>The multiplatinum-selling executant, whose big 2016 hit \u201cCaroline\u201d could very well see a diamond certification in Amin\u00e9\u2019s lifetime, dialed in on his patience with the release of <em>13 Months of Sunshine<\/em> through 10K Projects this past May. In an era of feeling rushed, he went back to songs he started working on four years ago and came out golden. The 16-track album finds him collaborating with longtime producer Lido as well as Dahi, FNZ, Loukeman and Toro y Moi, among others. Just like one of its song titles boasts, the result \u201cfeels so good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off the treadmill, getting his 10,000 steps in, Amin\u00e9 speaks to <em>XXL<\/em> in May on Zoom while sitting in his California home. A week before his project\u2019s arrival, he opens up about having his dad on the album, the joy in discovering new bars and metaphors, inflections with Lil Wayne in mind, throwing his own festival, and the surprise connection he made with his favorite MC, Azealia Banks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>XXL<\/em>: Your album title, <em>13 Months of Sunshine<\/em>, was inspired by the tourism posters in Ethiopia that you\u2019d see as a kid. What do you think this album may change about people\u2019s perspectives of you as an artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amin\u00e9: My dad is doing skits all over the album. And it\u2019s him speaking English with his really, really heavy accent. I think it really gives, with the title and the background of my culture and stuff, I think it gives a lot of people a lot more of this telescope into my life that feels like, \u201cThis is what conversations with his dad is,\u201d which is cool to hear.<\/p>\n<p>I think from some of my favorite artists, sometimes I really love their music, but I don\u2019t really know much about them, personally. So, I\u2019m hoping that this kind of gives people just a whole new kind of outlook and kind of more in-depth version of whatever kind of fan they are, whether that\u2019s a passive fan or a super fan. I hope this gives a lot more insight to who I am as a person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cArc de Triomphe\u201d is your talk-sh*t record. Did somebody piss you off that day? Because you\u2019re talking about burning bridges, stepping on people with the sneakers you\u2019ve designed via your partnership with New Balance?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nah, what\u2019s funny is, I just think when I focused my entire album on this concept and digging deep in songwriting and stuff, this beat is so fun. There\u2019s no way I\u2019m not going to talk sh*t on it. And I don\u2019t think I talked that much sh*t on this album, which was worrying me actually a couple months ago when I was finalizing all the records for it. I looked at my tracklist and I was like, Man, I\u2019m not really talking that much sh*t.<\/p>\n<p>I think for me, it was more like, that\u2019s just hip-hop. That\u2019s how being an MC works. You talk your sh*t, and you don\u2019t back down. No matter if the people consider you the best rapper alive, you have to rap as if you\u2019re the best rapper alive at all times, or else no one\u2019s ever going to believe you\u2019re good.<\/p>\n<p>The beat is so fun and dancey, and I think bars get missed here and there, but that\u2019s perfect for me because I filled it with tons of bars. So, maybe in two months, you\u2019ll recognize one bar you never understood, which is what I love about hip-hop and how I\u2019ve experienced hip-hop growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of Jay-Z records I listened to as a kid, and then when I got older and I learned what a Presidential was, I was like, Oh, that\u2019s a crazy bar. And it\u2019s like those moments, the youth might not understand this, or the adults might not understand. It\u2019s cool to just see people kind of understand metaphors and bars later on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Azealia Banks is very vocal. She praised you in multiple tweets this past May and described the music you\u2019re making right now as boyfriend rap. When you first read it, what did you think about that?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As long as Azealia Banks ain\u2019t cussing me out, I\u2019m happy. To be on a serious note, she\u2019s genuinely one of my favorite MCs, boy or a girl, you know what I mean? I think she raps circles around everyone.<\/p>\n<p>When I rap over dance music\u20142015, that\u2019s when I started to do it on SoundCloud and sh*t, 2014\u2014she is the epitome of that. She\u2019s been doing it since forever, and she is one of the first to do it, on just this grand level. That was so impressive to me and showed me that there were other beats you could select in hip-hop. It didn\u2019t have to be a certain way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like she said, you can\u2019t lose being the boyfriend rapper.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And me and her have been talking since then. I\u2019m so psyched. I\u2019ve always wanted to speak to her and collaborate with her and all that. So, I\u2019m on 100 right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, you put out the \u201c360.5\u201d freestyle. You killed it in your own way, but it was also giving Lil Wayne from over a decade ago in the best way possible.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a compliment. That\u2019s crazy. Yeah, I love that era of Wayne doing Da Drought 3, or whatever, and remixing every hot beat on Earth. That was the whole point for me when I did that.<\/p>\n<p>I was just like, I love this beat. A. G. Cook is a really, really good producer. And yeah, it was summertime, I had nothing to do. I was still working on my album. I was like, let me just rap. I just felt like rapping.<\/p>\n<p>I actually had Covid [in Italy] when I was shooting that. I was dead. I turned it on to look happy for that thing. I had to shoot it, but I went back in bed, and I was so sick after that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, you get some kind of inspiration from Lil Wayne. How has he been able to play a part in your career, when you\u2019re thinking about rapping, bars, excellence, wordplay and songwriting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to find the perfect words for it, but Wayne, growing up for me, I was on LimeWire, illegally downloading music all the time, you know what I mean? I had \u201cA Milli\u201d before \u201cA Milli\u201d came out years ago. He\u2019s the G.O.A.T., everyone knows he\u2019s one of the best ever. But for me, it was more so, he has this personality on records that can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of people are really good at lyrics and metaphors and bars, but something about the way Wayne says something has an inflection to it. He makes sure you remember the way he says something. And that part is really important to me in rap, where I think we focus a lot on lyrics, but delivery and the way you say a word is so important because it can change the perception of a song, completely.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve done a verse, listened to it and thought, Oh, this is pretty good. And then, I recut the entire verse with way more attitude, way more inflection, way more dramatics to it. Just because, yeah, I\u2019ve seen that in Wayne, and you learn that that\u2019s the way to deliver a song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve mentioned you leave things up to God. How important is faith to you in your personal life and your business career?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faith is really important to me. I grew up Orthodox Christian, and I might not be the ni**a that goes to church every week, but I definitely pray all the time. And that\u2019s something me and my therapist talk about all the time, about my relationship with God, and how much that means to me, because for me, it\u2019s not even just a religious thing, but for me, it\u2019s more so that I just know how I\u2019ve seen things work out for other people in their lives, and crazy sh*t happened to people and great sh*t happened to people, and the worst sh*t happened to some people.<\/p>\n<p>I really believe in karma, and I don\u2019t really believe that things just happen because you\u2019re so great, you know what I mean? I do believe I have been blessed because of a greater purpose, and it\u2019s not just me, because I just rap good. A lot of ni**as rap good. So, yeah, it\u2019s harder for me to not have faith in something like that because it\u2019s really hard for me to believe just me. And, also, I cringe at the fact that anyone would think that it\u2019s just them.<br \/><strong><br \/>What are you enjoying about rap so far in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me see. I got my downloaded albums, but off rip, I mean, for sure, [Rob49\u2019s] \u201cWTHelly.\u201d That is a phrase I love saying just because.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, I really like the new 2hollis album [<em>Star<\/em>]. It\u2019s pretty sick to me. I think 2hollis\u2019 album is sick just because of his production that he\u2019s doing on there as well. I love Ken Carson\u2019s new project, <em>More Chaos<\/em>. I think that\u2019s really good. There\u2019s a freestyle I heard from this rapper named Nino Paid that\u2019s really fire. Nino got this slang to the way he say certain words that just sound good. I really like the new Playboi Carti album [Music]. I love Carti sh*t.<\/p>\n<p>I really, really like the Sault album [<em>10<\/em>], even though that\u2019s not hip-hop, but it feels like it has hip-hop in its soul.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the Blaccmass remixes. He\u2019s this producer, where he\u2019s been doing these remixes that are fire. There\u2019ll be a song I barely like, and then he\u2019ll remix it with a classic beat, and I\u2019m like, Oh wait, this is kind of crazy.<br \/><strong><br \/>It\u2019s Freshman season. Looking back on your 2017 class, what was a memorable moment that you have from the shoot or just from that time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dude, I remember there\u2019s this whole lore of people saying that me and Carti are twins. We look alike. It\u2019s this whole thing that\u2019s been going on for years and years and years. And I know him. He\u2019s super chill about it. We have never personally talked about that, which is funny.<\/p>\n<p>But when we were on that shoot, Carti had, he was standing next to me, and he had Cheetos before you guys took the photo of us. I was young and really thinking about marketing. I wore that T-shirt [with the different ways people would mispronounce my name] on the cover, and I sold that T-shirt the day after the cover happened. I think that was the first time someone ever sold merch they wore on the cover after the cover came out.<\/p>\n<p>But he had the Cheetos in his hand, and I was trying to convince him to keep the Cheetos on the cover. He was just like, I don\u2019t know.\u201d But it looked so cool with the outfit that I just wish he kept it on there. It would\u2019ve been hard.<\/p>\n<p>I look at our <em>XXL<\/em> cover sometimes, and I\u2019m just like, Man, I was so happy I did that. I would\u2019ve been so dumb if I didn\u2019t do that. It is just legendary. I think those <em>XXL<\/em> covers are such an award. It\u2019s not just like a magazine cover. I think it\u2019s a stamp in hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>I have [the cover] framed in my crib somewhere, and it\u2019s sad to look at it and see how many deaths have happened in hip-hop [with XXXTentacion and PnB Rock] and just in general. It\u2019s just melancholy. It\u2019s nice to look at the cover, but I guess it\u2019s just the reality of things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last summer, you had your inaugural Best Day Ever Fest in your city of Portland. Are you going to bring it back this year?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definitely, yeah. We\u2019re finalizing and planning this year\u2019s one right now. Just keeping the lineup to be true artists I\u2019m a fan of. I think that\u2019s been the goal for me is to make the lineup always feel like these are the artists that I definitely listen to and you\u2019ve seen me either post their music or you\u2019ve seen me just be a fan of it and just kind of trying to offer something that Portland doesn\u2019t usually get.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also trying to do something with New Balance this year at the festival. So, just something one of one and really special with New Balance as a popup at the fest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Album\u2019s out for the summer. You have the\u00a0Tour de Dance world tour coming. What are\u00a0you excited about next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I definitely have a tour coming later this year. The thing I\u2019m more excited about is just the<br \/>album and just people consuming it and living to it for the next year or months or forever, whatever it is. I\u2019ve just held this music and had it for three-plus years, so, I think it\u2019s really, really nerve-wracking to see it say, \u201cAlbum released,\u201d and fully out into the world.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, I\u2019m just excited to see how people react to it, see how it changes people\u2019s perspectives or lives, or just whatever it might do.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Amin\u00e9&#8217;s Tour De Dance Dates<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Listen to Amin\u00e9&#8217;s <em>13 Months of Sunshine <\/em>Album<\/h3>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Amin\u00e9 photo<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Lucas Creighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The summer 2025 issue of XXL magazine featuring Amin\u00e9&#8217;s interview is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.xxlmag.com\/collections\/freshman-2025-capsule\/products\/xxl-magazine-freshman-class-2025-issue\" target=\"_blank\">purchase here<\/a>. 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