George Watsky is a rapper, writer and performer from San Francisco who is set to release his fifth full-length album COMPLAINT on January 11, 2019. Watsky has shared three tracks, “Mean Ass Drunk,” “All Like Whatever” and “Welcome to the Family.”
COMPLAINT contains all the magic that fans have come to love – whip-smart lyricism, acrobatic rapping, and a bent for balancing intellect and poignance with whimsy and wit – all while continuing to expand on the sonic sphere he occupies. An incredibly varied set, COMPLAINT follows 2016’s x Infinity which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Rap Albums Chart and gained critical acclaim from NPR, SF Chronicle, Stereogum, Billboard, Alternative Press and more.
Watsky is known as a versatile lyricist who switches between silly and serious, technically complex and simply heartfelt, He won the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam in 2006 and also self-released the jazz-hip hop record ‘Invisible Inc’ in 2007 and Watsky in 2010, which peaked at #7 on the iTunes hip hop charts. In January 2011, Watsky’s fast rapping went viral and led to two appearances on the Ellen Show, a slot on Last Call with Carson Daly, and an exploding online profile.
Watsky’s social media presence made him one of only 23 artists dubbed by ‘The Next Big Sound’ as a ‘Big Sound of 2011,’ alongside Mac Miller, Kreayshawn and Skrillex. He has performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the NAACP Image Awards on FOX, three times at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and has been featured in XXL, Billboard Magazine, the New York Times Magazine.
Watsky also announced that he’ll be hitting the road again in 2019 on The COMPLAINT Tour – the first in support of COMPLAINT and his biggest headlining tour to date. Pre-orders for the record are set to launch later this week.
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