Joey Bada$$

    

Joey Bada$$
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Handle	@joeybadass
Style	Music
Date joined	June 17, 2021
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Associates	PRO ERA • ASAPROCKYUPTOWN • IDK • FERG • Kenny Beats • Denzel Curry • XXXTENTACION • JID • Post Malone • T Pain • NardwuarServiette • theneedledrop • LIL UZI VERT • Playboi Carti • Lyrical Lemonade • Gus Dapperton • lil boat • Kanye West • Ty Dolla $ign
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Full name	Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott
Nationality	American
Location	Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott (born: January 20, 1995 (1995-01-20)), better known online as Joey Bada$$ is an American rapper. A native of Brooklyn, New York City, he is a founding member of the hip-hop collective PRO ERA.

History

Early Life

Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott was born on January 20, 1995, and was the first of his immediate Caribbean family to be born in the United States. His maternal family originated from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, while his paternal family originates from the island of Jamaica. He was born in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City. He was raised in Bed-Stuy and attended the Edward R. Murrow High School. He originally enrolled at Edward R. Murrow to study acting, but transitioned towards music around the time of 9th grade, with a focus on rapping.

He started rapping under the name "JayOhVee", but eventually changed it to Joey Badass. 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 began writing poetry and songs at the age of 11. 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.

Beginning

In October 2010, Joey Badass uploaded a video of himself freestyling to YouTube. 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 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. In February 2012, Pro Era released their debut mixtape entitled The Secc$ Tap.e. 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. The song was succeeded with the video premiere of "Hardknock" featuring CJ Fly on MTV2.

Subsequently, American rapper Mac Miller reached out to Joey Badass through Twitter to collaborate. He appeared on the song "America" from the mixtape Macadelic and opened for Miller at the Roseland Ballroom in April 2012. 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. and livemixtapes.com. The 30-date tour began in July 2012. He was featured on the posse cut track "1 Train" off ASAPROCKYUPTOWN's album Long.Live.ASAP which also features Action Bronson, Kendrick Lamar, Yelawolf, Big K.R.I.T., and Danny Brown.

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.

On March 26, 2013, it was announced that Joey Badass would be a part of XXL Magazine's 2013 Freshman Class.

2016-2019

On March 4, 2016, Joey Badass made his television debut in the second season of the hit TV series Mr. Robot, where he was cast in the recurring role of Leon, who is an associate of Elliot. On May 26, 2016, he released another single called "Devastated". The song peaked at number 25 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which became Joey's highest charting single to date. The single was certified gold by the RIAA on January 6, 2017.

On December 28, 2017, Joey Badass announced via Twitter that he was originally featured on Post Malone's track "Rockstar" along with T-Pain. Badass also admitted to ghostwriting the track. Florida rapper XXXTENTACION announced on Instagram that he had a collaboration project with Joey Badass, Badass later confirmed this on January 20, 2018. The two dropped a remix of the song "King's Dead" on SoundCloud on March 9, 2018. The two later on dropped a song titled "Infinity (888)" on XXXTentacion's second studio album ? one week later on March 16. With the killing of XXXTentacion, though, their collaborative project is all but confirmed to be not happening. On June 12, 2018, Joey re-issued 1999 on all streaming services and vinyl for its 6th anniversary, and in a following interview with Peter Rosenberg, revealed his fatherhood, making public his first child, then 2-month-old Indigo Rain. In December 2019, he was also featured in XXXTentacion's second posthumous and last album, Bad Vibes Forever.

Controversies

Legal Issue

In January 2015, Joey Badass was arrested and charged with assault for allegedly breaking a security guard's nose before performing at the Falls Festival in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Feud with Troy Ave

On June 2015, tensions between Joey Badass and fellow Brooklyn native Troy Ave began brewing after the former declared himself the "#1 independent hip hop artist/brand in the world" in a series of tweets. Troy Ave responded in another tweet by pointing out that Joey Badass is signed to Cinematic Music Group, whose music is distributed by RED Distribution, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment but Joey Badass later denied reports of a feud between the two of them.

On July 7, 2015, in an interview with Ebro Darden on Hot 97, Joey Badass had words of praise for Troy Ave, stating: "At some point you gotta have some level of respect for Troy because, at the end of the day, we're both independent artists who are standing on major platforms next to a whole bunch of major artists and they know who we are." However, in February 2016, he reignited the feud in a single entitled "Ready", where he rapped: "60k, first week for the badass / 200k to this day, I know you mad / With that 80-20 split, do the math / Kirk just outsold Troy Ave" In reference to Kirk Knight's debut studio album Late Knight Special and Troy Ave's second studio album Major Without a Deal.

In response to "Ready", Troy Ave released a diss track entitled "Badass" the following week, in which he not only insulted Joey Badass, but also targeted Capital Steez and his suicide. Following the song's release, Troy Ave defended his actions on Shade 45's Sway in the Morning, stating: "He didn't pass away; he killed himself. There's a difference. He took his own life. God gave you life, it ain't your right to take that. That's a fact. I got - in jail who got life sentences, they might as well be dead. They could've traded their life for his." He then received heavy criticism from both fans and fellow artists, including A$AP Ant, A$AP Twelvyy and Styles P who wrote, amongst a series of other tweets: "If you never experienced a family [member] committing suicide you have no fukn [sic] idea about that pain. NONE." Troy Ave then replied to Styles P's comments and apologized to his fans on Twitter. In an interview on VladTV, another Brooklyn rapper, Maino, stated that mentioning Capital Steez's suicide in the song was "a bit much".

In a freestyle on Sway in the Morning on March 29, 2016, Joey Badass responded to "Badass" in a series of lines aimed at Troy Ave, though never referring to him directly. Among other lines, he rapped: "I destroy average rappers, it's just practice […] Men lie, women lie, numbers sure don't / Got the whole Beast Coast coming for your skull / The karma gon' catch up, your album sales won't". In an interview with HipHopDX the following day, Fat Joe stated that he personally reached out to both Joey Badass and Troy Ave to try and squash the feud, but failed.

Discography

Albums

• B4.Da.$$ (2015)
• All-Amerikkkan Badass (2017)
• Escape From New York (2019)
• 2000 (2022)

EPs

• Summer Knights EP (2013)
• Spotify Sessions (2015)
• What's The Score (Remixes) (2015)
• The Light Pack (2020)

Mixtapes

• 1999 (2012)
• Rejex (2012)
• Summer Knights (2013)

Singles

• Enter The Void (2012)
• Lose Control (2015)
• Ready (2016)
• Brooklyn's Own (2016)
• Love Is Only a Feeling (2017)
• 500 Benz (2017)
• The Revenge (2022)
• Fallin (2023)
• Tell Me (2024)
• The Ruler's Back (2025)
• Sorry Not Sorry (2025)
• Pardon Me (2025)

Filmography

Films

• No Regrets (2014)
• Two Distant Strangers (2020)
• Pull It On: The Big L (TBA)

TV Shows

• Mr. Robot (2016-2019)
• Boomerang (2019-2020)
• Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019)
• Grown-ish (2019-Present)
• The Eric Andre Show (2020)
• Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021-Present)

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