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All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ is the sophomore album from Joey Bada$$. The project features some high profile artists. Joey Bada$$ is coming off the heels of starring in the award-winning TV show Mr. Robot and his latest single, "Devastated" being RIAA certified gold. – Press Release

“Joey has always been labeled as a conscious rapper with a heavy reliance on third eye perspectives on beats, rhymes and life. This liberated logic of music making is coupled with strong technical rap skills—a deadly combo for any artist. However, it’s taken Joey over five years of releases to get this complete arsenal. In a way, his past projects, like B4.Da.$$, have collectively groomed his expressive prowess to make an album of this importance. All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ encompasses everything we’ve come to love about Joey over the past few years with an added sense of social responsibility that is needed in times like these.

One of the most noticeable features on All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ is Joey’s wildly evolved sound. The lead single “Devastated” is a dead giveaway to the fact that Joey displays growth in his sound, as the grandiose production pumps a heavy rhythmic bass and a rattling chant-a-long chorus. As his biggest song to date plays through, it’s almost hard to believe that the boom bap-obsessed skater kid from Brooklyn made this type of anthem-laden track a mere five years after his debut. However, the sentiments of struggle turning into strength promoted on “Devastated” have very much been a part of Joey’s music since 2011, and are taken to the next level on this album.” – XXL

“All-Amerikkan Bada$$, the New Yorker's second full length record, feels like a culmination of all of the years spent working away at his craft. 'For My People' and 'Temptation' set the stall out early. Bada$$’s signature soul -infused samples are pasted all over the place, creating a almost surreally calm landscape for the man’s smooth yet vitriolic bars.” – Drowned In Sound

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