Tony Shhnow | |
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![]() Tony Shhnow in August 2022 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Carrington Jaylen Andrew Wilson [1] |
Born | Los Angeles, California | December 27, 1995
Origin | Atlanta, Georgia [2] |
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Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | 2016–present |
Carrington Jaylen Andrew Wilson [1] (born December 27, 1995), known professionally as Tony Shhnow, is an American rapper and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. [2] He is recognized as a pioneer of the plugg subgenre of trap music [4] and as a veteran of the hip hop underground scene. [5]
In 2019, Wilson released his debut mixtape Da World Is Ours. In 2020, he began gaining traction in the hip hop scene with the release of his mixtape Kill Streak. [6] [7] In January 2022, he released his mixtape Kill Streak 2. [8] Later that month, he released the deluxe version of his mixtape alongside a music video for one of the new tracks titled "Slow Crash". [6] In May 2022, he released a his single "Last Chance" with Detroit rapper ZelooperZ, [5] an artist who he is noted as being stylistically similar to. Again in May 2022, he released the music video for his track "Keep In Touch". [9] In June 2022, he released his single "Bape" with rapper Bear1Boss. During the track he interpolates Soulja Boy's hit track Crank That. [10] Again in June 2022, he appeared on Father's album Young Hot Ebony 2 on the track "Only Built 4 Hermès Linx". [11] In September 2022, he appeared on North Carolina rapper TiaCorine's album I Can't Wait on the track "Boogie". [12] In October 2022, he released his single "Life N Hard Times". Again in October 2022, he released a music video for his single "Can't Say I'm Broke". [3] [13] [14]
David Aaron Blake writing for HipHopDX describes Wilson's musical style on his mixtape Reflexions in the following manner: "There’s an apathetic confidence behind all of Shhnow’s music, as though he’s frustrated by how easy rapping is for him. A simple song structure bores him. He euro-steps between several different flows on the rage-inspired “Park My Car,” cramming multitudes of ideas into a less than two-minute song. All rappers must balance their raps’ style with its content, but Reflexions highlights Shhnow’s insistence that the sound of his music is as compelling as any lyric." [15]