- GOV’T NAME: Devante McCreary
- AGE: 25
- REPPIN’: Port Salerno, Fla.
- X: @bossman_dlow
- INSTAGRAM: @bossman_dlow
- TIKTOK: @bossmandlow
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Get In With Me,” “Mr Pot Scraper,” “Finesse” that includes GloRilla, “Discuss My Sh*t”; Mixtapes: Too Slippery, 2 Slippery, Mr. Beat The Highway
- LABEL: Alamo Data
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Untitled debut album dropping this fall.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “I don’t know. It’s powerful. It’s expertise in all places. Nearly who grind the toughest. Assume the folks you chose, all of them labored exhausting. [There] is perhaps some folks on the market you miss, however hey, can’t get all people. They’ll have their flip subsequent yr.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “Wiz Khalifa. Rod Wave. Future. I like those that speak motivation, cash, keep in your personal lane, get some cash. I like those that speak like that. F**ok unhealthy bi**hes, drink some liquor, smoke some weed.
[Future] simply converse for itself. Bruh been rapping since ‘Flip On The Lights.’ Nonetheless going. Nonetheless making hits. It’s 2024. [Rod Wave] was simply extra simply with the ability to see a younger Black dude make it from nothing. He like promoting out dumb arenas proper now. That’s simply [from] nothing to the largest, for positive. In order that’s just a few superb sh*t. You see him do it, make you wish to do it, you’re feeling me?”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “[I was] unhealthy as f**ok at school. Like sixth, seventh, eighth grade was all the time referral this, referral [that]. Simply dumb sh*t. Acquired caught cussing, acquired caught on the telephone, dumb sh*t. Highschool, it was extra sh*t like, ‘He smelling like weed,’ I’m saying? ‘He misplaced. He out of bounds throughout class.’ All sort of stupid-a*s sh*t.”
I rap like I’m in any individual’s face simply speaking to ’em. I don’t sound like no person in the entire class of this yr. Even outdoors of XXL, I sound completely different than all people. So it’s time proper now.
[I was] excited [when I found out I was a Freshman]. Like, Rattling, OK, these artist objectives getting completed. It is a platform that possibly one hundred pc of my followers ain’t or which might be being attentive to. Possibly this might be one other probability to point out myself to different genres of followers. Simply networking. That’s the way it’s going to profit your profession.
When it first began popping slightly bit after which it’s like, OK, you getting booked for exhibits, however they simply prepared to pay slightly certain quantity and a few of ’em exhibits it’s like, Oh, sh*t. They your ass like, ‘Who the f**ok is you?’ Sure sh*t be taking place to let , Yeah, OK. Yeah, you going up, you going loopy. [Being a Freshman] is a type of moments the place you going loopy.
All the things occurred for a purpose. All the things occurred on the time it occurred. It is a good yr.”—As informed to Peter A. Berry
Watch BossMan Dlow’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
BossMan Dlow 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle
Port Salerno, Fla. is a minute dot on the map on the East Coast of Florida that’s most well-known for its world-class angling tournaments, however the city’s present massive fish is rapper BossMan Dlow. Rising up quick in a small city gave the 25-year-old rapper a grassroots grind. He is been reeling in new followers with a easy but efficient lure of uncanny swagger and conversational baritone braggadocio. He hooks onto the identical power for his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle,
As the one member of the 2024 XXL Freshman Class from Florida, it is solely proper that he shines for the trenches. “The lure n***as successful, child, we acquired massive pockets,” he raps within the video beneath. “Made hundreds of thousands off a hen speaking, I accomplished skipped faculty/Ten-pointers moon strolling, child, I acquired massive diamonds,” Dlow spits a cappella whereas palming a big wad of freshly minted money.
Although his title is now ringing bells, Dlow nonetheless has an underdog mentality and a Kobe Bryant-like confidence. “35 hunnid simply to place these in your ft, n***a/I’ma wake them up for appearing like they sleep, n***a,” he confidently spits afterward in his freestyle. “They ain’t wanna see me make it, b****es had they nuts crawling/Pull up, i7, inside duck sauce.”
2024 might have been BossMan Dlow’s breakout yr, however he is been effervescent slightly below the radar since 2020, when he started placing out music following a short stint in jail for drug prices. After releasing a number of singles, issues ramped up for him in 2023, with the releases of the mixtapes Too Slippery and 2 Slippery. In between initiatives, he inked a cope with indie powerhouse Alamo Data. This previous January, Massive Za began issues off with a bang. He dropped the now-certified gold single “Get In With It,” which peaked at No. 49 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart and acquired cosigns from Lil Child, Quavo, Ciara and others. He adopted that up with a second hit, “Mr. Pot Scraper,” which has gained over 26 million streams on YouTube and been a TikTok mainstay.
“I rap like I’m in any individual’s face simply speaking to ’em,” he tells XXL about his catchy rapping fashion and closely influenced Florida lure sound that separates him from the pack. “It ain’t all of the taking pictures and killing and all of that, what I am saying? The vibe and sh*t. Simply bringing optimistic power.”
This previous March, he delivered his third mixtape, Mr Beat the Highway. The providing debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 chart, additional solidifying Dlow’s standing as an artist on the rise.
“I simply [feel] like all the things occurred for a purpose,” he tells XXL about his 2024 come up. “All the things occurred on the time it occurred. It is a good yr. I do not sound like no person the entire class of this yr. Even outdoors of XXL, I sound completely different than all people. So it is a good time proper now.”
Take a look at BossMan Dlow spit recreation in his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle beneath.—C. Vernon Coleman II
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