Cousin Stizz has a new album out Wednesday
The Boston rapper will release "Trying to Find My Next Thrill" this coming week.
Hometown heroes don’t get much bigger than Cousin Stizz, the Dorchester rapper who’s drawn a national spotlight toward the Boston rap scene while making a name for himself on both coasts.
On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Stizz is set to release “Trying to Find My Next Thrill,” his second studio album after 2017’s “One Night Only,” via RCA Records.
The record, which he’s teased with advance single “STP” (complete with a free-flowing music video), features his already-released track “Perfect” (a collaboration with Perfect Girls) as well as guest verses by rising Chicago MC Smino and Boston’s own $ean Wire.
Another advance single, Freddie Gibbs collab “Toast 2 That,” celebrated some of the success Stizz has experienced over the past few years.
The 27-year-old rapper – a fixture at Boston Calling in years past – won Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards this past December. The honor, the first in the category given to a hip-hop artist, came after a multi-year climb into the mainstream cemented by “One Night Only,” his RCA debut that featured musicians like Offset (of power trio Migos), Buddy and G-Eazy.
In a 2017 Globe interview, Stizz said he hoped his rise to prominence would help bust open the Boston hip-hop scene and make space for other artists, as has been the pattern in other cities with regional-champion rappers.
“There was a time when Atlanta wasn’t popping,” he said. “But once those doors opened, once some people came out of there, more followed. Same with Chicago. After Kanye West got big, more and more rappers followed and now you have the same thing happening with Chance [the Rapper] and them. I’m one of the first to come out of Boston, but that just means that more people are gonna come out from there now.”
