Rome Fortune

"ROME FORTUNE IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY TASTEFUL RAPPER. HE DOES A LOT WITH A LITTLE, CRAFTING CATCHY HOOKS WITH ONLY A FEW WORDS." NOISEY (VICE) "ROME FORTUNE IS ONE OF ATLANTA'S MOST WANTED MAKING WAVES. HIS ALBUM IS A BRUTALLY HONEST GLIMPSE INTO FORTUNE’S EVERYDAY LIVING, WHICH IS DRIVEN, AND AT TIMES HAUNTED, BY PRESSURES FROM FORCES INSIDE HIMSELF AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD." BILLBOARD "ROME FORTUNE HAS GROWN INTO A DEXTROUS RAPPER, WITH A VOICE AND FLOW THAT FIT THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF PRODUCTIONS ACROSS THE MUSICAL SPECTRUM. HE SEEKS TO HUMANISE AND NOT DEIFY, WITH LYRICS THAT ARE CLOSER TO JOURNAL ENTRIES THAN RAP VERSES. HIS STRONGEST ATTRIBUTE IS HIS COMFORT WITH VIRTUALLY ANY PRODUCTION, AND THAT SERVES HIM WELL. WITH A MOLASSES-THICK FLOW AND AN EFFORTLESS CHARM, FORTUNE DOESN'T STRANGLE THESE BEATS AS MUCH AS CARESS THEM WITH A GENTLE TOUCH, COAXING THEM IN WHATEVER DIRECTION HE DESIRES.” PITCHFORK "THE ADVENTURESOME AND EXPERIMENTAL ATLANTA RAPPER ROME FORTUNE IS BACK. SMALL VVORLD (FEATURING ILOVEMAKONNENAND OG MACO) SHOWS HOW MUCH ROME HAS PROGRESSED, AS HE STANDS OUT AS A SINGULAR VOICE AMONG THESE TALENTED CONTRIBUTORS." THE FADER "ATLANTA’S MOST VIVID RAPPER IS BACK. EQUALLY KNOWN FOR HIS IMPECCABLE MIXTAPES AND IMMACULATE FASHION SENSE, AND HIS ABILITY TO SKATE THROUGH GENRES, ROME FORTUNE’S BEEN A FAVOURITE HERE SINCE 2013’S OUTSTANDING BEAUTIFUL PIMP AND NOW HE’S BACK WITH ANOTHER CRUCIAL MIXTAPE, VVORLDVVIDE PIMPSATION. IT’S A STARRY COLLECTION BUT ONE THAT’S HELD TOGETHER BY ROME’S EFFORTLESS CHARISMA.” FACT "THIS ISN’T YOUR TYPICAL RAP ALBUM. ROME DIPS INTO ELECTRO-HOUSE AND HIP-HOP, BLENDING THE WORLDS TOGETHER FOR A COOL LISTENING EXPERIENCE." COMPLEX "FORTUNE IS THAT RARE KIND OF RISING STAR THAT MAKES IT ALL — THE MUSIC, THE LOOK — SEEM EFFORTLESS." THE VERGE “SONGS WE LOVE: ROME IS AN ECCENTRIC ARTIST NAVIGATING HIS WAY THROUGH AN INDUSTRY FRAUGHT WITH POTHOLES AND A TENDENCY TO PIGEONHOLE. WRAPPED IN A SOUNDSCAPE AS IDIOSYNCRATIC AS HIS PLAID-ON-PLAID-KILT ENSEMBLE. THE REAL GRABBER HERE IS THE HIGH-OCTANE ONOMATOPOEIC HOOK: "BLICKA BLICKA BOW BOW." LIKE SHOTS FIRED, THE REPETITIOUS MANTRA IS FORTUNE'S WAY OF FLEXING ON THE WORLD FOR HAVING EVER DOUBTED HIS ECLECTIC APPEAL.” NPR "ROME FORTUNE’S RAPPING STYLE IS MODEST AND DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE, UNTIL YOU’VE SPENT SOME TIME LISTENING CLOSELY AND HIS VERBAL DEXTERITY REALLY STANDS OUT." BEAUTIFUL PIMP = SPIN'S #23 BEST HIP-HOP ALBUM" SPIN "WHEN IT COMES TO LYRICAL DELIVERY, ROME POSSESSES A UNIQUE SET OF SKILLS. HIS VOCALS SWOOP ACROSS, SWINGING FROM WHISPERED BARS TO IMPASSIONED DIATRIBES. DON'T SLEEP ON ROME FORTUNE, YOU'LL BE HEARING HIS NAME A LOT." - PIGEONS & PLANES In the most cosmic sense of the word, Rome Fortune is Atlanta’s newest star. Blue-bearded and ostentatious at 6’5” in cowboy boots, he takes the stage like an eclipse and flips straightforward bars into lunar poetry. Even with such otherworldly swagger, Rome’s music connects with fans because of how powerfully, and sometimes painfully, human it is. Rome’s Beautiful Pimp mixtapes (“rap as motivational speaking, generous and all-inclusive” – Pitchfork) and collaborations with everyone from turn-up trailblazers OG Maco and ILoveMakonnen, to Four Tet and Toro Y Moi, were merely the prelude to his nakedly honest storytelling. His debut album Jerome Raheem Fortune, released last year on Fool's Gold Records, with production from Kaytranada on lead single Dance, was the true story of this man who fell to earth. As he gears up to release his second album, fans can expect more raw emotion and biographical narrative as Rome presents hip hop catharsis at its most compelling - head towards the outer limits of rap with a guide who is intimately familiar.