Album: ShooterGang Kony – Second Hand Smoke

Sacramento Prodigy ShooterGang Kony Sinks His Shot On His Most Assured Project To Date, Second Hand Smoke – Out Today via EMPIRE

7.17.2018

Critical Praise:

“ShooterGang Kony is perhaps the most promising young rapper from the California capital, building off Mozzy’s confessional-style mobb sound with a buoyant delivery and his own tales of pain and redemption.” – The FADER

“The Sacramento native’s rap is currently some of the West Coast’s most captivating and disrespectful music. The 20-year-old can spit his confessional rhymes over any drum pattern or melody” – Pitchfork

The Album:

Quickly rising amongst the California elite while maintaining a nonchalant charm that belies his 20 years of age, ShooterGang Kony comes out of Northern California with a cold-blooded bounce and a brand new project, Second Hand Smoke – out today via EMPIRE.

Explaining the title and concept behind the project, Kony states, “Secondhand smoke — that’s just shit you can’t avoid. All your homies smoke and you always in the car so you might as well smoke, right? It’s just real life situations. I’m the one that don’t smoke but nobody could make me smoke either. And it take a strong mind to be okay with being the odd man out in this day and age. But you always gone inherit what yo people got going on. And you gone go head first for your n*ggas right or wrong and so are they vice-versa. I literally put my blood, sweat, and tears through this album. During the duration of this album I lost 4 brothers. In and out of jail. Anything you could name. And I’m still pushin because they need me to. I feel like I can’t let nobody inside so I bleed through my music.”

Second Hand Smoke is without a doubt ShooterGang Kony’s most assured project in his already-prolific career. Last month, he dropped the project’s lead video single, “Off The Dribble”, a stone-faced anthem inspired by the 2018 death of his brother Terryon, followed by “Shoot Front The Reverend” feat Sada Baby, and most recently his new video for “Charlie”. The project also includes appearances from Nef The Pharaoh, DaBoii, Mike Sherm, and members of Kony’s ShooterGang posse. Second Hand Smoke is out today via EMPIRE.

Buy/Stream Second Hand Smoke: https://empire.lnk.to/Secondhandsmoke

Second Hand Smoke Tracklisting
01. Off the Dribble
02. Charlie
03. Broke Bitch Dreams
04. Patron
05. Smoke
06. Shoot The Front Reverend
07. X-Files
08. Everything Gucci
09. Hella Geekin
10. Rest in Peast
11. Plan B
12. Charlie 2
13. Shooter