WHAT IT IS: With a prolific mixtape career and several professional notches to boast, Dave East is looking forward to a big 2017. His major-label EP, Paranoia: A True Story, was released on 8/18 and debuted in the Top 10 of the Top 200 Chart with 25k. East enlisted a slew of high-profile collaborators for Paranoia, including Chris Brown on lead single “Perfect,” as well as Nas (“The Hated”), French Montana (“Maneuver”), Wiz Khalifa (“Phone Jumpin”) and Jeezy (“Paranoia”).
ALBUM: Paranoia: A True Story
RELEASE DATE: 8/18
SINGLE: “Perfect”
TV: BET’s Being Mary Jane and VH1 The Breaks
LIVE: Upcoming shows include Boston’s Brighton Music Hall (9/21), West Haven, CT’s Lotus Lounge (9/22), Providence, RI’s The Strand Ballroom (9/23), Philadelphia’s Theater of Living Arts (9/28), Rochester, NY’s Capelli Sports Stadium (9/29), Carbondale, IL’s Southern Illinois Univ (10/19), Mountain View, CA’s Rolling Loud Fest (10/22)
INTERNET: 2.55m monthly Spotify listeners; more than 9.8m Vevo views, 1.1m Instagram followers
RADIO: 8/21 impact date; currently #44 on Urban and in rotation at over 55 stations nationwide
PRESS: Rolling Stone’s “New Artists You Need to Know: August 2017”; Vibe (“Dave East continues to grow on new EP”), RapUp, XXL
BOOKING: Erin Larsen/Paradigm
PUBLISHING: Pulse Publishing
MANAGEMENT: Steve Carless/DFNT