YBN Nahmir, the Birmingham, Alabama-raised MC today releases FASTER CAR MUSIC, VOL. 1, his turbo-charged new 7-song EP available via Art@War/Def Jam Recordings, along with the premiere of the new video for “Pip N’ Walk.”
FASTER CAR MUSIC, VOL. 1 contains “Bows,” YBN’s entry single + video of the summer, released in July, which evokes the high-roller lifestyle: “Money coming in for them packs and now they goin’ out/ Can’t even smoke up in hotels but bitch, we burnt it down.” Big money talk is also let loose on “Spend It,” and the two tracks set the tone for the EP.
YBN Nahmir (born Nicholas Simmons) might have turned baseball pro out of high school, but friends out in Vallejo, CA had other ideas. They put him onto the sounds of Bay Area acts like E-40, Mozzy, and SOB x RBE, as well as other Cali artists like N.W.A. More interested in restoring old cars and playing Grand Theft Auto V than he was in hip-hop, the young gamer nevertheless picked up his X Box Live mic and the rest, as they say, is history.
By age 14, he’d gravitated to a Rock Band mic and begun recording freestyles. Within a year he was recording with an X Box Live friend as YBN (Young Boss Niggas). They posted their first collabo on YouTube and SoundCloud, “Hood Mentality,” which earned thousands of streams and crystallized the birth of Nahmir’s rap career. The stage was set, as he upgraded from his Rock Band mic to using a Snowball mic with a sock as a pop filter. He recorded the casual, yet forcefully confident freestyle that would become “Rubbin Off the Paint” in the summer of 2017. “After I recorded it, I’m already in my head like, ‘This is going to be the one.’” And it was. The video for the track netted millions of views, plus remixes by Vince Staples, Bhad Bhabie, and others.
Nahmir signed to Art@War and then, in 2018, to Atlantic Records. “Bounce Out With That” was treated to a colorful Cole Bennett-directed video with over 160 million YouTube views to date. In September 2018, Nahmir dropped his debut commercial mixtape with his YBN collective, now including Cordae. Tracks continued over the next couple years, building up to Nahmir’s debut album, Visionland, in 2021. It included the RIAA platinum “Opp Stoppa,” a pulsing, 21 Savage-assisted single. The next landmark was signing with Art@War/Def Jam Recordings in 2022. “It’s really game time right now, it can’t be stopped,” he says. “I gotta keep going crazy. I can’t slow down.”
FASTER CAR MUSIC VOL. 1 by YBN NAHMIR – tracklisting:
1. Spend It
2. Where I’m From
3. Bows
4. Pip N’ Walk
5. Inna Trap
6. Only One
7. Lamborghini Truck
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