Bo Burnham Keeps It DIY
Its time to get crunk. If getting crunk means, nodding your head to the super-suburban young-white-male-turns-rapper-on-the-Internet
music style that seems to proliferate so nicely in the YouTube
universe. This is in respect to Bo Burnham, whose debut Comedy Central Records album Bo Fo Sho releases June 17. The young artiste has racked up millions of YouTube hits since posting videos of himself (mostly in his room)
playing guitar and dropping rhymes to his loyal internet flock.
Despite having the support of a large studio behind him, Bo still wants
to keep things real. "I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and
playing them," he told Wired. "If the album were
anything else, it would lose the whole DIY effect of how it started
out." Don't worry folks, "DIY" isn't esoteric gang slang copped by Bo
to give him more street cred. You can check out Bo's six song digital EP
June 17 when it becomes available for download on iTunes.
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