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Fashawn

Fashawn is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Strong Arm Steady, Blu, Murs, Kendrick Lamar and Black Thought. Those roots explain a lot about how Fashawn arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Blu, Blu & Exile, Little Brother, Termanology and Talib Kweli, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Black Thought, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Fashawn, reaching back through Strong Arm Steady and forward to Black Thought. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Santiago Leyva, better known by his stage name Fashawn, is an American rapper from Fresno, California. He first gained recognition for his debut studio album Boy Meets World (2009), which received critical acclaim and landed him on the cover of XXL Magazine's Top 10 Freshmen issue in 2010. He signed with Nas' record label Mass Appeal Records in 2014 to release his similarly-acclaimed second album and major label debut, The Ecology (2015).

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FashawnStrong Arm SteadyBluMursKendrick LamarBlack ThoughtBishop NehruNasPlanet AsiaBlack ThoughtBluBlu & ExileLittle BrotherTermanologyTalib KweliStatik SelektahBrother AliYour Old Droog

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Fashawn connections

Fashawn grew out of Strong Arm Steady, Blu, Murs and Kendrick Lamar, shares an orbit with Blu, Blu & Exile, Little Brother and Termanology, went on to shape Black Thought. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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