Local rapping sensation Joey Boy has become the country’s first artist to record with a well-known Westerner.
His song and video “Fun, Fun, Fun” with Canadian rapper Snow is set for release at the end of the month through Bakery Music — and Joey Boy returns the favour on Snow’s as-yet-untitled forthcoming album on EastWest.
Snow, the Canadian rapping success whose album “12 Inches Of Snow” spent 38 weeks on The Billboard 200 in 1993, had a large part to play on the Thai rapper’s third album. Joey Boy spent a few weeks with Snow in Toronto earlier this year recording and honing his rap technique. “At first we had no plans to sing together,” says Joey Boy. “We became friends. Then he asked me to sing a song with him.” Friendship led to the artists collaborating on tracks for each other’s albums (both albums are due in late November).
Snow sings “Fun, Fun, Fun” on Joey’s album and appears in a video now in it’s final stages of editing. Joey Boy joins Snow for “Joey And Me” on the latter’s album. Joey Boy says the the Toronto experience has improved his rapping and that the new album will highlight that difference, for it features a more American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae beat.
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