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About Watsky
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Born
September 15, 1986
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
With whimsical imagery and a syncopated, turbocharged flow, Watsky is a multi-talented DIY success story who blends spoken word and rap.
• Watsky’s father is a former English professor, while his mother worked as an elementary school librarian. He credits his parents with fostering his passion for wordplay.
• A high school teacher referred the once-disruptive Watsky to Youth Speaks, a poetry workshop in San Francisco. In 2006, he was crowned the Youth Speaks Grand Slam Poetry Champion.
• He appeared on Season 6 of HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam.
• Watsky’s jazz/hip-hop band Invisible Inc. released a self-titled album in 2007. The ensemble returned for a second LP in 2018.
• In the 2010s, Watsky earned hundreds of millions of streams portraying William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe in the web series Epic Rap Battles of History.
• His 2014 album All You Can Do cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It includes “Whoa Whoa Whoa,” an Anderson .Paak–produced song with a video starring Jim Belushi and Bo Burnham.
• His Shockwave-assisted song “An Open Letter” appears on the 2016 gold-certified Hamilton Mixtape compilation.
• Penguin Books’ Plume division compiled 13 of Watksy’s essays for the 2016 book How To Ruin Everything.
Influenced by WatskyWatsky has influenced the music of That Kid Protege, Lupe Dragon, The Kicking Heels and more.
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