Fireplace: Thenottheotherside

2016 album from Hodgy. The 13-track album features guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes and Salomon Faye as well as production from BadBadNotGood, 88-Keys, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Nottz, Rahki and Jonti; a diverse array of artists to help bring life to tracks like the Rahki-helmed Resurrection, where Hodgy converses with God, and Laguna, which sees him expressing his passage way through in life. Fans might be surprised to find a worldlier perspective from Hodgy on Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide. He began work on the set after he signed his solo deal under the Odd Future umbrella in 2013, but only this year recorded almost all of the rhymes on Fireplace off the top of his head. I had to do a lot of living and transform in order to feel and speak my truth, to say what I really felt on the album rather than just rap. I'm gifted. Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide, which includes snippets from a conversation with his mother and a few sound bites from his son, is the culmination of years of hard work both in and out of Odd Future. Born in Livingston, NJ, he moved to his current home of Pasadena, CA with his mother at the age of nine, developing his musical foundation by listening to the neo-soul music being played around the house. Though he started to rap around six years old, groups like Portishead and Bush Tetras started to attract his attention through his adolescence, helping to develop an accentuated perspective on the variety of music and genres.