![]() ![]() ![]() Pitchfork: Who were some formative rappers you listened to growing up?Ĭities Aviv: I always thought Big Pun was the fucking shit, straight up. "The album is like a depiction of who I am as a person: scatterbrained." "I’m lazy and I don’t work as much as I used to," he told us, "but now, when I write, I feel like it’s worth it." Right now, he's working on a follow-up to Digital Lows, though it may take a while. Eventually, he made the full leap to hip-hop and started rapping as Cities Aviv. When he was 18, Mays and his friends formed a hardcore band called Copwatch, and he describes their shows as "a bunch of our dork-ass friends just punching each other in the face." (Hilariously grainy YouTube evidence corroborates his account.) While Mays was screaming with Copwatch, he was also experimenting with rap on the side. ![]() It's a big, probably-fake goal, but if his singles and recent album Digital Lows are any indication, he's at least poised to grab some attention with his flow (somewhere between RZA and Lupe Fiasco), eclectic samples ( Steely Dan, Depeche Mode, cheeseball pop duo the Alessi Brothers), and quotability ("In this 8-bit world, I'm Bowser"). On Memphis rapper Cities Aviv's Shirley Bassey-sampling summer jam "Coastin'", he boasts "By the time I'm 25, yeah, the world is mine." That gives 22-year-old Gavin Mays three years until he takes over. ![]()
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