Some people say I have that, but I may never feel like that.” Teezo Touchdown to Hakeem Rowe I’m waiting for that point when you put on my songs, you know it’s a Teezo song. I’m just trying to figure out what works for me. That’s just me experimenting, I’m not really stuck to anything. The same reason why my style changes, why my music changes, I’m just trying to figure out what impression I’m gonna have on the world. READ + WATCH □: /wZIP1HDP9h- Our Generation Music March 23, 2022 □ □□□ □□□□□□□□□ □ chopped it up with #OGM host to speak on “Handyman,” his upcoming debut project, and so much more! ⬇️ Throughout his relatively short career, Teezo has garnered co-signs from not only Trippie and Tyler, but also Kenny Beats, Madonna, BROCKHAMPTON, Chance the Rapperand many more - still hard at work creating his long-awaited debut project trying to “figure it all out.” Gaining major attention in part by his appearance with Redd during a Montreality interview, the rap-rocker also caught the eye of Tyler, The Creator following his string of 2021 singles - earning a feature on CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’s anthemic “ RUN IT UP” as well as opening his CMIYGL tour alongside Vince Staples and Kali Uchis. ![]() ![]() From rapping in high school to shooting music videos in his hometown, his 2019 remix of Panic At The Disco’s “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies,” managed to catch the eye of Trippie Redd - later befriending him and joining his 1400 entourage early in his career. It’s also proof, perhaps, that Paris Texas aren’t yet completely overwhelmed by the burdens of audience expectation.A post shared by Our Generation Music □ the son of a DJ, Teezo was destined for stardom stemming from intrinsic desire to create. Where much of ‘Mid Air’ concentrates on weightier themes of paranoia (‘Everybody’s Safe Until…’) and malaise (‘tenTHIRTYseven’), this moment of lightness feels especially invigorating. On Teezo Touchdown team-up ‘Full English’, Felix manages to namedrop Nando’s, Harry Potter, Tesco, King Krule and baked beans in the space of 30 seconds, as he relishes in the song’s increasing absurdity. Still, there’s a sense of real curiosity across the record. The inspiration is lost when they occasionally choose to coat songs in a layer of gloss. In places, however, the arrangements can feel a little too clean on tracks like ‘Nüwhip’ and ‘Earth-2’, Paris Texas nod to the energy of their heavier rock and punk influences without ever fully committing to laying down a lengthy, jagged riff or switching up Felix’s delivery. The fast and loose nature of ‘Mid Air’ is accentuated by the rumbling beats of ‘Bullet Man’ or the warped vocals that stir ‘Closed Caption’ into action. Its 16 tracks are equally propulsive and elusive, yet reveal little about the pair beyond that their creative relationship is largely focused on making a scuzzy, purposefully disjointed sound of their own. Listening to their debut album ‘Mid Air’ two years on, it’s tempting to say not much has changed. Yet rather than bask in the hype, Pastel and Felix soon recoiled from it: interviews and social media posts were kept to a minimum, allowing a mythology surrounding Paris Texas and their backstory to materialise. READ MORE: Paris Texas at Governors Ball 2022: “We just want to make shit that we think is tight”.I didn’t know it was gonna happen,” Felix told NME nine months later. “ definitely took everybody by storm hit them over the head. ![]() When the Californian duo, otherwise known as producer Louie Pastel and rapper Felix, emerged in February 2021 with their impactful breakthrough single ‘Heavy Metal’ – a firecracker of a track that recalled the epic urgency and swagger of Brockhampton’s ‘Saturation I’ – they became an internet sensation, enjoying viral ubiquity on Twitter. In a way, it has always felt like Paris Texas versus the world.
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