

With Artist 2.0, however, the hoodie has come down, the MC returning to Artist mode, once again baring his soul through R&B melodies. “It’s straight street,” A Boogie told Apple Music at the time.

According to A Boogie wit da Hoodie, 2018’s Hoodie SZN album-which broke the naming convention of 2016’s Artist, 2017’s The Bigger Artist, and 2018’s International Artist-was him leaning into a harder sound, MCing a little more in line with what you might expect to come out of the Highbridge section of the Bronx.
