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Buddy Brings The Jazzy ‘Ain’t Fair’ To ‘UPROXX Sessions’

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UPROXX Sessions returns with a performance from a West Coast favorite, Buddy.

In 2018, the rapper made his major label debut with Harlan & Alondra. Fans of the Compton-born-and-bred MC went almost four years without a project until he dropped his sophomore album, Superghetto, in March this year. Although short, with features from heavy hitters like Tinashe, T-Pain, Ari Lennox, and Blxst, it’s no surprise that Buddy delivers an excellent, laid-back performance of the album’s “Ain’t Fair.”

Buddy takes the 3 minutes to detail the “lifestyle of the super ghetto fellow,” including drug use, his musings on gentrification in the hood, and exes popping back up in his life. The performance showcases Buddy’s range as he switches flows over a jazz-inspired beat and demonstrates his love for LA by wearing a tee from the Fairfax-based design collective, Brain Dead.

Watch Buddy perform “Ain’t Fair” for UPROXX Sessions above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

Buddy Battles The Law And His Evil Twin In The Claymation Video For ‘Bad News’

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Buddy had a spotlight moment in 2018 with the release of his debut album Harlon & Alondra. It was yet another example of an excellent debut album from new artists in the 2010s that documented their experiences growing up in the West (see: Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid M.A.A.D. City, YG’s My Krazy Life, and Ty Dolla Sign’s Free TC). However, after Harlon & Alondra arrived, Buddy would go almost four years without a project before dropping his sophomore effort Superghetto earlier this year. It was a brief effort with just ten songs to its name, but in the spirit of keeping the album alive, Buddy returns with a new video for it.

Just a month after Superghetto was made available to the world, Buddy shares a new visual for “Bad News.” It’s a claymation effort that begins with a fight between a police officer and what appears to be Buddy’s love interest. Soon enough, Buddy himself is fighting a cop, but that’s not all the tussling he does for a video. The visual concludes with an unsuccessful fight between the rapper and his evil twin.

The new video arrives after Buddy announced the tour dates for Superghetto. His string of shows will begin on June 15 in Oakland, California and continue for a couple of a weeks before concluding on June 30 in Chicago, IL.

You can watch the video for “Bad News” above.

Superghetto is out now via RCA Records. You can stream it here.

Buddy Announces The Tour Dates For His New Album, ‘Superghetto’

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Compton rapper Buddy is fresh off the release of his new album, Superghetto, which dropped on April 8 via RCA, and today, he announced the tour dates promoting the new album — his first in nearly four years. The tour begins June 15 in Oakland, California at The New Parish and includes dates in LA at The Roxy, New York at the Bowery Ballroom, and Toronto at Adelaide Hall before concluding in Chicago at Subterranean.

Fans can expect to hear new singles “Wait Too Long” featuring Blxst (which Buddy performed recently on The Tonight Show) and “Hoochie Mama,” as well as favorites from Buddy’s 2018 debut album Harlan & Alondra and the Dreamville compilation Revenge Of The Dreamers III, on which Buddy was a standout. Buddy will be joined by Houston rapper HVN and LA rapper/singer Kent Jamz, who collaborated with Buddy on their 2020 joint mixtape, Janktape Vol. 1. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 15 at 10 am local time. You can see the full schedule of dates below.

6/15 — Oakland, CA @ The New Parish
6/16 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy Theatre
6/17 — San Diego, CA @ Soma – Side Stage
6/22 — Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage
6/23 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
6/24 — Philadelphia, PA @ Foundry
6/25 — Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
6/28 — Toronto, ON @ Adelaide Hall
6/29 — Detroit, MI @ Blind Pig
6/30 — Chicago, IL @- Subterranean

Buddy And Blxst Give A Laid-Back Performance Of ‘Wait Too Long’ On ‘The Tonight Show’

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Compton rapper Buddy’s new album, Superghetto, is out now. To celebrate and promote its release, he and fellow SoCal artist Blxst stopped by The Late Show to perform their standout from the new project, “Wait Too Long,” looking cooler than a fan in matching black-on-black ensembles.

Buddy opens the performance lounging on an armchair with a telephone — a nifty callback to the song’s music video — as Blxst croons the catchy chorus backed by a mellow groove from the duo’s band.

Superghetto is Buddy’s first new album since his 2018 debut, Harlan & Alondra. The album, which features Ari Lennox, Blxst, Tinashe, and T-Pain, clocks in at a smooth 10 tracks and features “Black 2,” “Hoochie Mama,” and “Wait Too Long” as singles.

As fans awaited the new album, Buddy delivered a string of solid guest appearances on projects like Dreamville’s Revenge Of The Dreamers III, which landed him his first platinum plaque, and Guapdad 4000’s debut album, Dior Deposits, as well as Tinashe’s latest on the single “Pasadena.” Buddy also teamed up with fellow LA area artist Kent Jamz to release a joint mixtape, Janktape, Vol. 1, spawning the single “Bad Boys.”

Watch Buddy and Blxst perform “Wait Too Long” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon above.

Superghetto is out now on RCA Records.

Buddy’s ‘Superghetto’ Album Will Feature Tinashe, T-Pain, Ari Lennox, And Blxst

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Buddy is just a couple of days away from releasing his long-awaited second album. The Compton native’s upcoming full-length effort, Superghetto, is set to be his first solo project since his 2017 debut album Harlon & Alondra. While it’s been a few years since Buddy released his debut, he’s been far from inactive during that time. He laid a collection of standout verses on Dreamville’s Revenge Of The Dreamers III, dropped Janktape Vol. 1 in 2020 with Kent Jamz, and he’s collaborated on songs with Lucky Daye, Guapdad 4000, D Smoke, and more.

Now, with Superghetto locked in to arrive on March 25, Buddy returns with the official tracklist for his sophomore album. Superghetto will gift listeners with ten songs, with two being singles that Buddy has already released: “Black 2” and “Wait Too Long.” Across the project’s ten songs, Superghetto will flaunt guest appearances from Tinashe, T-Pain, Ari Lennox, and Blxst. The songs with T-Pain, Ari, and Blxst will be Buddy’s first collaborations with them while the record with Tinashe will make for their third record together following “Glitch” and “Pasadena.”

You can view the tracklist for Superghetto below and revisit its artwork above.

1. “Hoochie Mama”
2. “Ghetto 24” Feat. Tinashe
3. “Wait Too Long” Feat. Blxst
4. “Black 2”
5. “High School Crush”
6. “Happy Hour” Feat. T-Pain
7. “Coolest Things” Feat. Ari Lennox
8. “Ain’t Fair”
9. “Bad News”
10. “Superghetto”

Superghetto is out 3/25 via RCA Records. You can pre-save it here.

Guapdad 4000 is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.