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ALBUM2 Piece - SingleDave East & Harry Fraud
Albums by Dave East
ALBUMFOR THE LOVEDave East & Scram Jones
ALBUM30 For 30Dave East & Cruch Calhoun
ALBUMFortune Favors the BoldDave East
ALBUMBook of DavidDave East, Buda & Grandz & DJ Drama
ALBUMHDIGH (Deluxe)Dave East
ALBUMHOFFADave East & Harry Fraud
ALBUMHOFFA (Radio Edit)Dave East & Harry Fraud
ALBUMKarma 3 (Deluxe)Dave East
ALBUMSurvivalDave East
ALBUMSurvival (Bonus Track Version)Dave East
Dave East's Popular Music Videos
Said What I Said (feat. Doe Boy)
Dave East
Handsome (Director's Cut)
Dave East
Unruly (feat. Popcaan)
Dave East
Mission (feat. Jozzy)
Dave East
Alone (feat. Jacquees)
Dave East
Rent Money (feat. Dave East)
Mary J. Blige
Is U Down (feat. Dave East)
Pvrx
East Coast REMIX (feat. Busta Rhymes, A$AP Rocky, Dave East, French Montana, Rick Ross & Snoop Dogg)
A$AP Ferg
Wrote My Way Out
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Aloe Blacc
Fit Lit (Betty White) [feat. Dave East, Maino & Fabolous]
Jim Jones
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Dave East Essentials
The onetime Nas disciple enters the arena of New York rap stars.
Artist Biography
When he was putting together his first full-length album, 2019’s Survival, rapper Dave East knew he had a choice: He could swim with the current or swim against it. Raised in Harlem and Queensbridge on New York street-rap classics—Hov, Nas, Biggie, Pun—East’s gut told him to stick with tradition, with narrative, with a sound and style he felt had gotten lost in the cultural wash. “It’s like, it’s not the go-to, you know what I’m saying?” he told Apple Music in 2019. “It ain’t trendy. But it comes with where I’m from and what I represent. To have stories, to have real-life things that I happen to be able to put into words—I don’t feel like that’s something everybody can do.”
Born David Brewster, Jr., in 1988, East started releasing mixtapes in 2010, eventually hooking up with Nas—a mentorship that helped put his career on a higher track. For all his fidelity to the past, East never comes off as nostalgic, holding ground as comfortably with trap- and pop-oriented artists like Lil Baby and Gunna as with old heads like Fabolous and Styles P—a balancing act that stands out in a culture where progress and tradition don’t always get along. Yeah, he grew up then—but he’s living now.
Born David Brewster, Jr., in 1988, East started releasing mixtapes in 2010, eventually hooking up with Nas—a mentorship that helped put his career on a higher track. For all his fidelity to the past, East never comes off as nostalgic, holding ground as comfortably with trap- and pop-oriented artists like Lil Baby and Gunna as with old heads like Fabolous and Styles P—a balancing act that stands out in a culture where progress and tradition don’t always get along. Yeah, he grew up then—but he’s living now.
Hometown
Harlem, NY, United States
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap