![]() On March 5, 2013, he released the music video for “Unorthodox”. “Underground Airplay” was featured on the Eckō Unltd. and Smoke DZA titled “Underground Airplay”. On February 8, he released a music video featuring Big K.R.I.T. On January 14, 2013, he released the first single off his second mixtape Summer Knights, “Unorthodox”, which was produced by DJ Premier. These songs were his first official releases to retail. On November 9, 2012, Joey Badass released a track with Ab-Soul produced by Lee Bannon called “Enter the Void” along with “Waves”. On December 21, 2012, Pro Era released the P.E.E.P: The aPROcalypse mixtape. In December 2012 it was rumored that Joey Badass would be signing to Jay Z’s Roc Nation record label, but in January 2013, he dispelled the rumors saying he would rather stay independent than sign to a major label for the time being. He was featured on the posse cut track “1 Train” off ASAP Rocky’s album (2013) which also features Action Bronson, Kendrick Lamar, Yelawolf, Big K.R.I.T., and Danny Brown. Along with headliner Juicy J, Joey Badass and Pro Era performed on The Smoker’s Club’s One Hazy Summer Tour, presented by Eckō Unltd. He appeared on the song “America” from the mixtape Macadelic and opened for Miller at the Roseland Ballroom in April 2012. Subsequently, American rapper Mac Miller reached out to Joey Badass through Twitter to collaborate. On September 6 of the same year, he released another mixtape titled Rejex, which featured all the tracks that did not make it on the 1999 mixtape. The mixtape was named the 38th best album of 2012 by Complex magazine and the best mixtape of 2012 by. The mixtape immediately increased his popularity in the underground scene. A video for the song “Waves” was released in June 2012. ![]() On June 12, 2012, Joey Badass released his debut solo mixtape 1999. The song was succeeded with the video premiere of “Hardknock” featuring CJ Fly on MTV2. On March 21, 2012, MTV News featured Joey Badass’ verse from the video during a RapFix Live segment and subsequently appeared as a featured guest on Sucker Free the following month. In February 2012, Pro Era released their debut mixtape entitled The Secc$ Tap.e. In early 2012, Joey Badass and Capital Steez released a video for “Survival Tactics” via their YouTube channel “PROfckingERA”, which samples the 2000 Fold song of the same name by Styles of Beyond. The video was re-posted on to American hip hop site World Star Hip Hop and caught the attention of Jonny Shipes, the president of Cinematic Music Group, who soon after became his manager. In October 2010, Joey Badass uploaded a video of himself freestyling to YouTube. Along with CJ Fly, he is a founding member of the collective known as Progressive Era, or Pro Era for short, which was formed by his high school friends Capital Steez and Powers Pleasant. He claims to have first started writing poetry and songs at the age of 11. He says that the name change is due to the media’s focus on rappers with more cynical names, saying it was “what sounded cool at the time, what fit [his] mood”. He started rapping under the name “JayOhVee”, but eventually changed it to Joey Badass. ![]() He has also been compared to Nas during his Illmatic era. In an interview with XXL, Joey Badass stated that he is influenced by Nas, Tupac Shakur, Black Thought, MF DOOM, J Dilla, Andre 3000, Jay Z, and The Notorious B.I.G.
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