Denver hip-hop artist Ason Yugen explores the idea of social media as an alternate universe on his debut album, The Wolf & The Social Club.
Just months before he was scheduled to graduate from Tuskegee University with a degree in aerospace engineering, hip-hop artist"I left my senior year, right before I graduated. I was like, 'No, something's not right. I have to use my voice for something,'" recalls the Indianapolis native.
After leaving college, Yugen linked up with one of his former classmates in Seattle, where they started working together to help record and produce tracks for other artists. He started rapping on a whim around 2015, after the musicians in his circle kept nudging him."Somebody was like, 'You wanna hop on this track?' And I was like, 'Bro, I've never rapped before,'" he says."I got that first verse, and I was hooked.
He started at square one, working his way through the ranks of Denver's underground hip-hop scene and honing his skills at open-mic events. Yugen has now been in Denver for"the better part of six years," but also spent time traveling abroad, working as a club DJ in Thailand, Egypt and Tanzania. After losing his day job six months ago, he decided to focus on music full-time, resulting inYugen started off as an internationally touring DJ before making his own music.On the album, listeners can hear how Yugen's sound carries traces of all the music he's absorbed in his lifetime.
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