Wolfacejoeyy has to hand it to his mother. “My mom always told me, ‘You know you can sing right?’” the Staten Island rapper says. “I'm like, ‘Why are you telling me this?
If I could sing I would know.’ Then I started recording music and I was like, ‘Hold on. Wait, I can like, actually sing.’” Initially a producer for artists like SoFayGo and Dom Corleone, Wolfacejoeyy (born Joseph Badejo) started rapping when the SoundCloud scene grew stale and unexciting.
But underground rap wasn’t what Mama Joeyy wanted to hear from her son: “She always told me, ‘You have to make music that people can dance to.’ And at first I was like, ‘Man, I'm trying to be the next Carti!
Leave me alone,’” he laughs. But the idea eventually stuck. “When ‘SHAKE IT’ came out and I played it for her, she was like, ‘See?
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