Rapper MAVI on his latest album 'Shadowbox'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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MAVI is a rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina. In recent years, he's become one to watch. On his latest album Shadowbox his flow teems with self doubt and anxiety. The melodies and samples linger long after the record's finished. MAVI joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to discuss the record. The themes in his albums are often filled with pain and loneliness, so get into how he's been doing lately to handle those feelings.

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0:24.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun
0:29.5	and is distributed by NPR. It's Bolesai. I'm Jesse Thorne. This past August, my guest Mavi released his third full-length album.
0:52.0	He's an MC from Charlotte, North Carolina. released his third full-length album.
0:52.8	He's an MC from Charlotte, North Carolina.
0:56.1	Sort of a your favorite rapper's favorite rapper type.
0:59.6	In 2022, he released Laughing So Hard It Hurts, a top 10 for a lot of critics that year
1:05.6	it was beautifully wrong Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:16.0	Yeah, praying they still made love in my size.
1:19.0	It's over up and white the crusts on my eyes.
1:21.0	My last integrity and trust the trailer crumbs for my bride
1:24.4	consider return or failure.
1:26.0	It's a come to the tide when Charlotte people see folks cherish people such a surprise.
1:30.1	They see something we not.
1:31.4	Since I stupe my stomach at five, my often and not,
1:34.7	had sustenance a 9 for a 9.
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