Billy Blue paperwork a crumbling relationship in “A Damaged Love Story”, a brand new single and video
The veteran Miami rapper prepares his ‘Life Of Pedro’ EP, to be launched on March twenty first by 1st & fifteenth, the label co-founded by Lupe Fiasco
Since rising in Miami within the mid-2000s, rapper Billy Blue has delivered uncompromising Southern bangers with lyricism that elucidates the contradictions of life within the streets.
The veteran rhymer lately introduced ‘Life Of Pedro’, an upcoming EP, to be launched on March 21 by way of 1st & fifteenth/Thirty Tigers.
Endorsed by Lupe Fiasco, who alongside together with his enterprise accomplice Charles “Chilly” Patton signed him to his 1st & fifteenth label and who introduced him as an opener on tour, Billy Blue prepares a 6-pack of gritty, lyrical road tales, every as vivid and visceral as an city novel.
Billy Blue brings a brand new perspective to Valentine’s Day, sharing “A Damaged Love Story”, the EP’s first single and music video.
Relayed by Billy Blue with animated supply and writerly element, the tune tells the story of an evolution of a relationship, from preliminary infatuation, to courtship, to eventual deterioration.
Billy Blue’s accomplice grows disillusioned with the connection when he spends an excessive amount of time hustling, as an alternative of along with her.
As an alternative of merely ending the connection, she decides to take monetary and emotional revenge, and an enraged Billy Blue decides he’ll finally remorse.
Directed by Flick Rick of Imaginative and prescient 13 Movies, the video brings Billy Blue’s lyrics to life from begin to end in cinematic style.
“A Damaged Love Story” is Billy Blue’s first official launch for 1st & fifteenth, coming after a protracted profession as a revered rapper in his metropolis and past.
Born in New Rochelle, NY to Haitian immigrant dad and mom, Pedritho Dorsonne moved to Miami when he was 10-years-old.
Experiencing intervals of homelessness and neglect as a youth, he took the title Billy Blue as a reference to his emotional state (“blue”) and his survival instincts (“Billy” comes from “Billy The Child”), rapping as a strategy to train his demons and course of his scenario.
He constructed a repute for hard-nosed lyricism, crafting native hits like “Riders N Sliders” and incomes the eye of hitmakers Timbaland and Akon, who signed him to a joint take care of Interscope Data in 2006.
Years later, he has turn out to be an skilled at navigating the altering tides of the music business, and he nonetheless instructions the respect of the sport’s greats.
In 2024, Lupe Fiasco signed him to 1st & fifteenth, and introduced him as a supporting act for his 2024 “Samurai Tour”.
With Lupe in his nook, Billy Blue is out to show that he nonetheless has the lyrical capacity to face with anybody within the recreation.
Keep tuned for ‘Life Of Pedro’ EP, coming quickly!!!
Billy Blue’s “A Damaged Love Story” monitor can also be out there now to stream and cop on all main digital streaming platforms
