Shoreline Mafia is in a brand new period, however hasn’t ditched the West Coast power that is turned their motion into a number of gold data and loads of hits. Fenix Flexin and Ohgeesy spent final 12 months feeding the followers with a brand new album and regular work that included streaming success, revered collabs and a Coachella efficiency, marking their first present collectively in over 5 years. Shoreline Mafia join for XXL’s Speak It Up sequence, powered by DistroKid, to debate the brand new music they’re engaged on this 12 months, collaborating with Coi Leray, what’s subsequent and extra.
The California-based duo characterize a small pool of rap teams that also exist within the tradition. In 2020, Fenix, 30, and Ohgeesy, 32, dropped their Mafia Bidness album, proper within the coronary heart of the pandemic, serving licensed slappers like “Bands” and “Perc Popper” that summer time. Then the 2 took a break from Shoreline enterprise to dedicate time to their solo careers. Fenix launched 4 initiatives, together with Fenix Flexin Vol. 1 via 3 and Again Flexin between 2021 and 2024, whereas Ohgeesy dropped GeezyWorld, GeezyWorld 2, the joint undertaking Trophies with Berner and Geesy’s Paid N Full album throughout 2021 to 2025.
After 4 years aside, Shoreline reconnected as a duo for his or her Again in Bidness album final spring, that includes the well-received title observe, “Contact Down” and “Again 2 Again.” Additionally they strengthened their identify with appearances on Coi’s “Act Like You Know” and YG’s “Hollywood” in 2025. This new period of Shoreline Mafia goes up. “I believe the followers are loving it, Ohgeesy says. “We acquired three gold data in a 12 months.”
“The outdated followers, the day-one supporters, they rock with us the identical means that they all the time have,” Fenix provides. “However I’ll say, it is an entire new technology of followers of people that caught up onto our music inside the 4 years, that did not even know who individuals was within the group. They simply heard the music of Shoreline Mafia. Now that they placing a face to the music they been listening to, I really feel prefer it brings much more pleasure to the group.”
For his or her Coi collab “Act Like You Know,” the 2 rappers had been shocked to seek out out she had been in tune with their motion for some time. “She mentioned she been f**kin’ with Shoreline for a very long time,” Oghseey shares. “As soon as we heard the beat, we had been like, we doing this for certain. And I really feel like she purposely made it with an L.A., West Coast [sound]. As soon as she mentioned, ‘Put it on the lifeless homies,’ I used to be like, we getting on this.” “We heard it and was like, that is the right match,” Fenix provides.
Wanting into 2026, new Shoreline Mafia music is on the way in which. They’re determining the route they need to go in, however it would positively embody some playa vibes for the women and leveling up. “We in that kitchen proper,” Fenix maintains. “Touching completely different bases and completely different feelings, you realize what I imply, that we going via that the followers can hook up with. And that is all of our progress over the music.” “We make some grown and horny sh*t,” Ohgeesy says.
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