![]() This morning, he was announced, alongside Kid Cudi and Childish Gambino, as an opener for Outkast at their homecoming show there in September. Last week, Raury held an event in his native Atlanta called Raurfest, which doubled as both his first ever official performance and his 18th birthday party. ![]() ![]() ![]() His songs are seamless amalgams of a dozen strains of American music stretching back half a century - all woven together by someone who never saw them as separate. In the tradition of Kanye West or, say, Taylor Swift, the very existence of the 18-year-old singer/songwriter/rapper/guitarist/producer seems to represent another nail in the coffin of the idea of genre purity. Raury is a new kind of artist but when you hear him you understand.
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