It doesn’t mean it’s bad or good, it just … I don’t know. The way you think about life as a kid completely changes and morphs into who you end up becoming when you’re 26. When I was in high school, I thought that when I was 26, I would have kids, a wife, and a car. I still feel like a college kid trying to become an adult right now. And I completely scrapped them, because by the end of making this album with my co-executive producer Pasque, we both agreed that no matter how much success we’ve reached with Good for You, or ONEPOINTFIVE, we’re still figuring it out. I had a bunch of titles in mind for this project that I had drafted up and had written for like two years. It came from an actual feeling that I’ve had for a long time. The album feels, and sounds, like the musings of a person that’s stuck in more ways than one.
I personally chose the title for completely different reasons. Personally, I’m not a fan of being on the nose of things, of the times, or of anything, really, ever, so the title just kind of worked out in our favor when it came to the timing. What’s fucking crazy is I had it for about a year and a half - way before this pandemic, before everything. How long have you been sitting on that title? Limbo is a fitting name for an album coming out right now when we’re all in limbo, in a sense, due to the pandemic. Now he’s ready to explain his personal limbo - and why he believes he’s still stuck in it. Recorded over the past two years, Limbo is a time capsule of the feelings, experiences, and personal thoughts that, up until now, Aminé was hesitant to reveal. He’s now wiser, wearier, and eager to show people that despite having a gold album plaque under his belt and more than 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify around the world, he doesn’t actually have it all figured out. The following year, he shared an “LP/EP/Mixtape/Album” ONEPOINTFIVE this summer saw him branch out to acting with a small role on Insecure, which arose from his friendship with Issa Rae, who’d appeared in his 2017 “Spice Girl” video. After signing with Republic Records that same year, he released an equally cheery debut album, Good for You, in 2017. It’s also a large step for Aminé, born Adam Aminé Daniel, who first won teen hearts and ears by rapping about a “bad thang” that was “fine as hell” on his vibrant, charismatic debut single “ Caroline” in 2016.
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It’s from the viewpoint of new adulthood through a shattered window, cracked by failed relationships, realizations about money, and discoveries about happiness.
These days, the 26-year-old rapper smokes to get away from the feelings at the center of Limbo, his long-awaited sophomore album. “It has really calmed down my anxiety and my paranoia.” “Once I accomplished the dream of becoming a musician, a lot of weight kind of came off of my shoulders, and I kind of just wanted to try it for the first time,” he says on a call from Los Angeles, a week before his new album was set to drop on August 7. A lot’s changed since then, including some of his reservations. Growing up he avoided status symbols, even smoking, unsure of what his self-control would be like as he worked frantically, and desperately, to make it out of Portland.
For Aminé, blazing a fresh joint is the same high as turning over the ignition to a new Lamborghini Urus.
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