Get ready to hop aboard the gravy train. Yung Gravy is coming to town. Well, at least virtually he did.
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Yung Gravy joined RADIO.COM’s Julia for a RADIO.COM LIVE Check In and spoke about the origins of his hit track “oops.”
“It kind of came out of nowhere,” Gravy said. “I thought it was sick, like no one is doing this, like let me f*****g rap on this 90’s sounding grimey beat.”
The song has a pretty simple back story. “I say ‘oops’ and ‘yup’ a lot,” Gravy said. As “two of the main songs on my album,” Gravy now admits he’s a bit conscious whenever he says it.
“After they came out, now whenever I say those words it’s like I have to stop saying them because people will always think I’m talking about music or something. But 'oops' was a big part of my vocabulary so I had to use it in a song at some point.”
“It was one of my favorite songs on the project so I’m glad people caught on to it,” he added.
For someone that injects a lot of humor in his music, comedy isn’t his main goal. “I wouldn’t just want to do straight comedy,” he said.
Music has always been at the forefront for him, but it wasn’t until he took to SoundCloud that he began to seriously consider it as a career. “Growing up in Minnesota I never thought [there] was a chance I could make it in music until I ended up seeing some other artists who I had mutual friends with go up on SoundCloud and that’s really what I used to blow up,” he said.
“I think putting humor into it was just what comes to mind for me. It wasn’t premeditated like ‘oh I’m going to be the funny rapper,’ I would freestyle with my friends and that was kind of just the vibe.”
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With a couple of viral hits under his belt, Yung Gravy has gotten some opportunities he never would have imagined.
“Probably to date my most quoted line has to be ‘Hey Alexa, Hey Alexa, how many b****s can we fit in the Tesla?’” He says.
“It blew my mind that just by putting that in the song, Amazon hit me up and I did a commercial for them and ended up working with Tesla on something too. It’s like, wow I might have to start shouting out more brands then too.”
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