[NEW ARTIST] HOBO JOHNSON

Hobo Johnson is a fairly popular artist right now that is taking a different direction in rap. He is from Sacramento and he has made a name for himself as a local artist. He really got big after his video entry to NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest appeared on Facebook. It currently has 3 million views on Facebook in less than a week. His other videos average around 500,000 views. 

You can view it here:

This is how I found out about him and I think he’s really great. He turns rap into poetry to make a hybrid of the two works. He even has a punk sound due to the topics in his songs. The song’s theme is being in love with a girl who has a boyfriend, which has all happened to us at some point. He is not afraid to show his emotions and he has such a way with words to make you feel his pain even behind the screen.

I am so happy that he got his name out through the Facebook platform and I hope we can see this unconventional artist make it big in the next few months. We need someone like Hobo Johnson to spice things up.

Check out his other videos:

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