Their first single, "Queen & Slim" ft. BJ the Chicago Kid was the featured title track from the movie Queen & Slim. In 2022 they had a television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and were featured on the song "Destruction" in the album moMINTs by rapper Tobe Nwigwe.[5]
Coast Contra built up a good following in 2022 with multiple freestyle videos which are featured on their YouTube channel, with their single "Never Freestyle" gaining the most attention.[6][7] They released their debut studio album in 2022 titled Apt. 505.[3]
The hip-hop recently stopped by Home Grown Radio, where they talked everything from coming together to the album, Apt. 505. Coast Contra is going on to perform yet another sold-out show in LA at the Echo on Wednesday, June 22nd.
With its occasionally political lyrics, numerous Clash references and heavy use of Nintendo-like electronic sounds, the album has a title that aptly describes the new elements it lends to the distinctive Vampire Weekend sound: a breezy, melodic and ambitious brand of guitar pop with influences ranging from the New York indie scene to the sounds of coastal African music.
A: I think that it's definitely an extension of our first record, maybe because we're still the same people, still the same music fans who have been digesting and hearing many things as we've been around and on tour. We're excited, and I definitely think it's a different album, but I think it shares the same DNA.
A: I think that was more of a conceptual theme. Some of it has to do with the fact that we recorded this album in New York in a pretty standard New York spring, where it was rainy and gray and the idea of California was very exciting at that point.
Q: A band's second album, perhaps unfairly, is often seen as the big indicator of whether it will last or not. Are there any other bands whose career paths you or the other guys in the band would like to follow?
I think, conceptually, there are things we've thought about - like, well, most specifically the Beastie Boys. They had a debut album that was very successful, but then their second album - ... it was still the Beastie Boys, and it still sounded like the Beastie Boys, but, at the same time, they kind of showed that they were very talented and that they could make an album that was differently constructed but still good.
A: I think that, at the very least, on our albums, we definitely want it to be us and we want it to be Vampire Weekend. We ended up being able to perform The Kids Don't Stand a Chance with Chromeo, and that was very fun - getting out of your comfort zone and doing something different.
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