Since rising within the New Jersey rap underground, Fatboi Sharif has reveled within the unorthodox, swerving between types that stay threaded by his dexterous baritone. Suppose The Crow and Dungeon Household, darkened by shades of Ghostface Killah’s surrealism, leading to tasks that really feel like a twisted hallucination. Sharif, nevertheless, has all the time had a foot firmly staked within the different world. He was deep into grunge earlier than discovering hip-hop, calling Pearl Jam and Silverchair a few of his “favourite music ever.” He nonetheless remembers the primary time he witnessed 9 Inch Nails’ “Nearer” video on MTV. Earlier this yr, he hopped on a track helmed by the Code Orange aspect mission NOWHERE2RUN, contributing a ghoulish verse alongside Sadistik.
Appropriately, Sharif unleashed his newest full-length, Goth Lady On The Enterprise, by way of POW Recordings, close to Halloween, the place he warped his haunting circulation into one thing wholly intriguing — half growl, half spoken phrase — over Roper Williams’ glitched-out manufacturing (a longtime peer whom he’s been working with on and off since 2016’s Age of Extinction). It feels simply as darkish, unsettling, and layered as placing on a traditional horror flick, and with that in thoughts, the experimental rapper took AP by a handful of movies that impressed Goth Lady’s creation.
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“Anyone who’ve been to my home that know me for some years know if you come inside a Sharif’s area, it’s sure films that you simply gotta watch, irrespective of what number of occasions you’ve seen it,” he says, presenting an ease and enthusiasm that oppose his sinister verses. Sharif praises Oliver Stone’s Pure Born Killers, whose “dialogue, loopy cinematography, and the way [the scenes] simply reduce from one factor to a different, however within the gist of the story, it nonetheless is sensible,” finds kinship with “Tarpit.”
One other contains Jacob’s Ladder, the place a Vietnam vet turned postal employee descends into his personal dizzying hell (the movie even performs within the background as Sharif rattles off his picks). “For those who hear a track like ‘Seance’ [or] the title monitor, it’s type of just like the hysteria and pleasure that you simply hear in that track, and it’d be in a movie like that,” he provides. “That’s what it’s all about, man. Once we create these albums, we create worlds, and it’s plenty of worlds that encourage me.” Head right here for his full checklist.
