In his second and latest album “1176,” the rising Filipino American hip-hop artist Guapdad 4000 looks back on his childhood, his humble beginnings, and how growing up biracial shaped him into the artist and person he is today.
“I named it after the address of the house (Oakland, California) I grew up in. It was the first house my Filipino grandma looked at when she moved here from the Philippines, along with my grandpa, who was a merchant marine,” he told the Inquirer in a Zoom interview.
Born to a Filipino mother and a Black father, Guapdad 4000, whose real name is Akeem Hayes, described the new record as his “origin story. “I talk about where I came from, being bira…
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