It updates once a week, and I’ve been at… 68 and 63 I think? It’s pretty awesome to see that it got on there, and that it’s staying, and still going up. It’s like a bigger deal, so pretty cool for me. But I’ve never had a single on the Hot 100, it’s like a whole different ball game. I was like “Oh, maybe I’ll beat last year,” but nah, the exact same one. Both Gasanova and Sensational debuted at 52 on Billboard, which is interesting. Yung Gravy: Yeah, it is wild! Some of my albums have charted, I think there’s different math that goes into it. ![]() How does it feel to have a song on the charts? It’s your first single that’s hit the Billboard charts, which is super exciting. We obviously have to talk about “Betty”, I feel like it’s taken on a life of its own. Early me and like, more recent me… I’ve changed a lot, so it’s cool that you saw both of those.īrigid: Yeah, totally! Okay, so we can get into the questions here. Well, congrats on graduating! Those were both really good shows, that’s awesome. I’m honored.īrigid: I was at Lollapalooza in 2019, and then I was also at Spring Jam at the University of Illinois. ![]() He answers the phone, kindly introducing himself as Matt, and we jump into our conversation.īrigid: So I’ve got some questions for you here, but before we get into it, I just have to let you know that you were my number one artist on Spotify two years in a row! In 20. In the midst of all the chaos, I got the chance to chat on the phone with Yung Gravy about everything he’s working on. This is an insane time in Yung Gravy’s career: “Betty” is charting on Billboard, he’s gearing up to release an album in September, and he’s also about to hit the road with longtime friend and collaborator bbno$. Especially when it seems like “unprecedented times” are never ending, a lighthearted song can really go a long way. I loved that it was fun, upbeat music made by an equally fun and upbeat person. I’m serious, I genuinely listened to “1 Thot 2 Thot” every single day when I clocked out of work. Over the next few years, I proceeded to play Gravy’s music for everyone, get my feet stomped on by suburban frat boys at his 2019 Lollapalooza set, and reply to his Instagram stories way too often. I was immediately enthralled, rhyming “dressing” with “flexing”?! I was sold. ![]() Back in prehistoric times (2018), before TikTok even had the feature to put text on videos, there was a dance trend to Gravy’s song “Cheryl”. I first was introduced to Yung Gravy, like many other fans, through TikTok. I occasionally listen to some Tiny Meat Gang, sure, but for the most part, Yung Gravy is an outlier amongst my other frequently streamed artists. In the cluster of my music taste which is mainly rock and pop punk, Yung Gravy somehow still comes out on top. I’m a recent music school graduate (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s Music Technology program, to be exact), and it always baffles people when I tell them that Yung Gravy was my number one artist on Spotify, not just one year, but two. Especially with his latest hit “Betty”, there’s an undeniable quality to Gravy’s music that can’t truly be described. It could be the nostalgic samples, the hard hitting 808’s, or even his lyrics that sit in the gray area between hilarious and genius. There is something about Yung Gravy’s music that makes it timeless.
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