- GOV’T NAME: Devante McCreary
- AGE: 25
- REPPIN’: Port Salerno, Fla.
- X: @bossman_dlow
- INSTAGRAM: @bossman_dlow
- TIKTOK: @bossmandlow
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Get In With Me,” “Mr Pot Scraper,” “Finesse” that includes GloRilla, “Speak My Sh*t”; Mixtapes: Too Slippery, 2 Slippery, Mr. Beat The Street
- LABEL: Alamo Data
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Untitled debut album dropping this fall.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “I don’t know. It’s robust. It’s expertise in all places. Nearly who grind the toughest. Suppose the folks you chose, all of them labored onerous. [There] could be some folks on the market you miss, however hey, can’t get everyone. They’ll have their flip subsequent yr.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “Wiz Khalifa. Rod Wave. Future. I like people who speak motivation, cash, keep in your personal lane, get some cash. I like people who speak like that. F**ok dangerous bi**hes, drink some liquor, smoke some weed.
[Future] simply communicate for itself. Bruh been rapping since ‘Flip On The Lights.’ Nonetheless going. Nonetheless making hits. It’s 2024. [Rod Wave] was simply extra simply having the ability to see a younger Black dude make it from nothing. He like promoting out dumb arenas proper now. That’s simply [from] nothing to the largest, for positive. In order that’s just a few superb sh*t. You see him do it, make you wish to do it, you’re feeling me?”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “[I was] dangerous as f**ok in class. Like sixth, seventh, eighth grade was all the time referral this, referral [that]. Simply dumb sh*t. Acquired caught cussing, received caught on the cellphone, dumb sh*t. Highschool, it was extra sh*t like, ‘He smelling like weed,’ you realize I’m saying? ‘He misplaced. He out of bounds throughout class.’ All type of stupid-a*s sh*t.”
I rap like I’m in someone’s face simply speaking to ’em. I don’t sound like no person in the entire class of this yr. Even exterior of XXL, I sound completely different than everyone. So it’s a very good time proper now.
[I was] excited [when I found out I was a Freshman]. Like, Rattling, OK, these artist targets getting completed. It is a platform that possibly 100% of my followers ain’t or which can be listening to. Possibly this might be one other likelihood to indicate myself to different genres of followers. Simply networking. That’s the way it’s going to learn your profession.
When it first began popping just a little bit after which it’s like, OK, you getting booked for exhibits, however they simply keen to pay just a little specific amount and a few of ’em exhibits it’s like, Oh, sh*t. They your ass like, ‘Who the f**ok is you?’ Sure sh*t be taking place to let you realize, Yeah, OK. Yeah, you going up, you going loopy. [Being a Freshman] is a type of moments the place you going loopy.
All the pieces occurred for a motive. All the pieces occurred on the time it occurred. It is a good yr.”—As advised to Peter A. Berry
Watch BossMan Dlow’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
Port Salerno, Fla. is a minute dot on the map on the East Coast of Florida that’s most well-known for its world-class angling tournaments, however the city’s present massive fish is rapper BossMan Dlow. Rising up quick in a small city gave the 25-year-old rapper a grassroots grind. He is been reeling in new followers with a easy but efficient lure of uncanny swagger and conversational baritone braggadocio. He hooks onto the identical vitality for his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle,
As the one member of the 2024 XXL Freshman Class from Florida, it is solely proper that he shines for the trenches. “The entice n***as profitable, child, you realize we received massive pockets,” he raps within the video beneath. “Made hundreds of thousands off a hen speaking, I completed skipped faculty/Ten-pointers moon strolling, child, I received massive diamonds,” Dlow spits a cappella whereas palming a big wad of freshly minted money.
Although his title is now ringing bells, Dlow nonetheless has an underdog mentality and a Kobe Bryant-like confidence. “35 hunnid simply to place these in your ft, n***a/I’ma wake them up for performing like they sleep, n***a,” he confidently spits afterward in his freestyle. “They ain’t wanna see me make it, b****es had they nuts crawling/Pull up, i7, inside duck sauce.”
2024 might have been BossMan Dlow’s breakout yr, however he is been effervescent slightly below the radar since 2020, when he started placing out music following a quick stint in jail for drug prices. After releasing a number of singles, issues ramped up for him in 2023, with the releases of the mixtapes Too Slippery and 2 Slippery. In between initiatives, he inked a take care of indie powerhouse Alamo Data. This previous January, Huge Za began issues off with a bang. He dropped the now-certified gold single “Get In With It,” which peaked at No. 49 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and acquired cosigns from Lil Child, Quavo, Ciara and others. He adopted that up with a second hit, “Mr. Pot Scraper,” which has gained over 26 million streams on YouTube and been a TikTok mainstay.
“I rap like I’m in someone’s face simply speaking to ’em,” he tells XXL about his catchy rapping type and closely influenced Florida entice sound that separates him from the pack. “It ain’t all of the capturing and killing and all of that, you realize what I am saying? The vibe and sh*t. Simply bringing constructive vitality.”
This previous March, he delivered his third mixtape, Mr Beat the Street. The providing debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 chart, additional solidifying Dlow’s standing as an artist on the rise.
“I simply [feel] like all the pieces occurred for a motive,” he tells XXL about his 2024 come up. “All the pieces occurred on the time it occurred. It is a good yr. I do not sound like no person the entire class of this yr. Even exterior of XXL, I sound completely different than everyone. So it is a good time proper now.”
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