- GOV’T NAME: Elijah Policard
- AGE: 20
- REPPIN’: Boston
- X: @richamirii
- INSTAGRAM: @richamiri
- TIKTOK: @richamirii
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Poppin” that includes Lil Tecca, “One Name,” “Aint Nothing,” “Outta There”; Album: Ghetto Fabulous; Tasks: For The Higher, Evolution
- LABEL: Web Cash Information/10K Tasks
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Struggle Prepared album dropping this fall.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “Rappers-wise, I really feel such as you all hit the nail on the pinnacle, to be sincere. I can’t actually consider anyone that deserves it greater than anyone that’s over right here. I’ve my private pals, however I don’t suppose that they’d be higher matches than the folks y’all selected.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “Lots of people; Kanye West, Future. I hearken to Brent Fiyaz. I hearken to plenty of Gideon. I hearken to plenty of Frank Ocean. However so far as rap, I might say Kanye, Future, Lil Keed. I might say these are the large three on them. They’ve a unique method than every other artists. Whether or not it’s vocal inflations, how they’re stretching their songs, their lyrics, their content material. They’re not rapping about the identical factor as everyone else. And even when they’re, they’re saying it otherwise.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I used to be misplaced, simply looking for myself. Discover my little area of interest on the planet the place I belong, however I believe I discovered that. I didn’t actually care about college. I used to be making an attempt to make folks chuckle. I didn’t have the perfect grades.”
I’ve the momentum proper now in my profession. I’m at that spot the place XXL can take me to the subsequent degree. I’m a Freshman in hip-hop. I don’t suppose anyone in my lane or round my age goes to be coming how I’m coming.
[Once the cover drops], I’m most likely going to exit to dinner with my mother. I’m going to be like, ‘You see your son?’ We would should go to Nobu. I may need to go massive for XXL. I don’t know if [the fans are] going to be stunned, however I believe it’ll make them blissful, for certain.”—As advised to Bianca Torres
Watch Wealthy Amiri’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
Wealthy Amiri 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle
Wealthy Amiri has been betting on himself and he’s beginning to stack up some main wins. The 20-year-old rapper from Boston has constructed a serious following arising from rap’s underground over the past couple of years with a mode and melodic supply that’s each welcoming and enigmatic paired with entice soundscapes. Wealthy stays true to kind and gloats with a syrupy stream in his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle.
Wealthy Amiri Followers pined for the rising artist for in final yr’s XXL Freshman Class, however his spot within the 2024 XXL Freshman version is extra apt. He has been in uncommon kind just lately and raps like a person who sees himself in pole place.
“I do not care a few b***h, cool with none of those rappers I am f**king they broad/I do not know nothing ’bout a key, this a 2024 push a button once I’m beginning my automobile,” he raps as he pantomimes his lyrics for the digital camera. “Working by means of the money like tracks, signed a deal for the M and I went and purchased a Audemars watch.”
The New England native is flexing as he ought to be. After he began to rap in 2020, he put collectively a string of well-received singles together with “Stroll In” in 2021. After dropping his debut venture, For the Higher in 2022, final yr Wealthy really piped up. He acknowledges his latest progress.
“It is the lyrics, content material, it is my writing expertise have improved, my manufacturing expertise have improved,” Wealthy tells XXL. “I’ve extra of a hand in manufacturing. The place I am getting inspiration from, it modified. Music is subjective, so you possibly can’t actually say whether or not it improved as a result of I am listening to totally different artists. However undoubtedly, the place I am pulling inspiration from, artist-wise, has modified. Every little thing is simply revamped. Every little thing is totally different.”
Wealthy, who inked a cope with 10K Tasks in March of 2023, put out his Evolution venture that includes the music “Poppin” with Lil Tecca in March final yr. He doubled again with extra music in 2023, dropping the singles “Codeine Loopy,” and “Ain’t Nothing” earlier than delivering “One Name,” his largest report so far final November. They appeared on his Ghetto Fabulous album two weeks later. “One Name” peaked at No. 60 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and was licensed gold in late Could. The time is now.
“I really feel like I’ve the momentum proper now in my profession, and I am at that spot in my profession the place XXL can take me to the subsequent degree,” says Wealthy, who now has over 10 million month-to-month Spotify listeners. “I do not suppose there’s anyone making what I will launch. I do know I’ve taken a few half-year break the place I solely had one releases, however throughout the half-year, I have been on this studio each single day engaged on my craft, and I simply do not suppose… I do not suppose anyone in my lane or round my age, like, interval, goes to be coming how I am coming.”
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