NICK GRANT
One of hip hop’s most pleasant surprises of 2016 has been Nick Grant’s mixtape ’88. A virtual unknown until the tape’s February release, Grant impressed everybody with his tenacious and lyrical style, savvy ear for beats, and unshakable confidence on the mic.
Grant grew up in Walterboro, South Carolina and currently resides in Atlanta. A lifelong hip hop head, he is more indebted to and influenced by the currents that ran through the genre in the ’90s than many of his contemporaries, and as such his music can provide an agreeable change of pace from Atlanta’s forward-thinking yet often-repetitive trap scene.
