Quick-witted characters who are full of adventure in shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and Pinky and the Brain contributed to the duo’s overall sense of humor.
They took full advantage of their rising popularity that year, dropping one more mixtape and their debut album, Meet Us Outer Space.ĭrego and Beno grew up as the youngest siblings in their respective families, in what they proudly call the best cartoon era in history. The mixtape is now widely considered a modern-day Detroit classic – all 14 of the project’s songs boast the type of raunchy punchlines and candid storytelling that have gone on to be key characteristics of Detroit rap. Their debut mixtape, 2019’s Sorry For the Get Off was an instant hit thanks to the undeniably catchy and blatantly honest track “Recipe 2,” on which they admit to choosing the money and the drugs over a girl, before taking it all back – “I’m lying, I’m in love with you, boo.” The song went on to make waves not just locally, but nationally. They began to take rapping seriously not too long after. “I guess people just started to like it, so us playing around at school and sh*t, that’s the only reason we really rap for real,” says Drego. The response to their take on the challenge was overwhelming, as friends and peers suggested that they really make a song. They are trying to be funny, but it’s also just who they are.
This style of rapping organically suits the charismatic personalities of both Drego and Beno, allowing for their punchlines about accidentally driving the Foreign the wrong way down the one-way street to slide off their tongues naturally. Sometimes one of their classmates would play a beat by banging on the desk too, but at the time, it was just kids having fun.īeno went viral doing the “Geeked Up Challenge,” a simple gimmick popular on Vine around 2016, where people would just rap to the instrumental of Jeezy and Fab’s “Geeked Up” – usually coming up with funny one-liners that would make their crew surrounding them laugh. They used to poke fun at their friends through funny disses and rhymes at school. But they’ve only been seriously rapping for four years, and they never actually wanted to do it. In middle school, they attended a performing arts school, where Drego played drums in a jazz and concert band. Classic R&B like Luther Vandross and Al Green was always played around their houses and they were fans of rap groups like Team Eastside and StreetLordz in the 2000’s, whose tales seemed relatable to a young Drego and Beno. The two are godbrothers, attending school together all the way up to graduating high school. Jazz got a story to it, even without the words.” Beno refers to R&B and hip-hop as “real life cinema” before Drego dives deeper: “Even before words came to music – jazz or whatever it was, it always had a feeling to it. The two always agree with each other’s point of view anyway – they just expand on each other’s analogies. But he also won’t hesitate to sit back and let Beno talk about certain topics, like how they grew up on hip-hop and how bars just come to them at any given point throughout the day. The first thing you realize is that Beno is the quieter of the two – Drego is the more talkative one. “We want you to be able to feel like we really going through this, or we was going through this at this moment in our lives,” says Drego. They’re fighting demons because of their times growing up in the streets of Eastside Detroit, but they’re simultaneously listening to their auntie telling them to wash their dishes when they’re done in the kitchen. They share a similar goal too: to make people laugh and tell their stories through their music. They credit this to just naturally being into the same things – music, sports and making jokes. Isaac Fontes wears plaid flannels for the drip, not because it’s a national pastime.Įven though Detroit rap duo Drego and Beno don’t particularly look alike, they come across as brothers – and this is because of an immensely tight bond that they’ve shared since an early age. Please support the realest hip-hop blog for over a decade running by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Covering everything from Rage beats to niche Twitter icons.
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