New Music: Saba Ft. Mick Jenkins & Xavier Omar “Stay Right Here”. From the mountain to the grave, Saba yearns for everlasting love on his new release.
| Birth name | Tahj Malik Chandler |
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| Born | July 17, 1994 (age 26) Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Hip hop, Jazz rap |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
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| Website | sabapivot.com |
Tahj Malik Chandler (born July 17, 1994), better known by his stage name Saba (stylized as SABA), is an American rapper and record producer. He grew up in the Austin neighborhood of the West Side of Chicago.[1] He is a co-founder of the musical collective Pivot Gang with his brother Joseph Chilliams, their late cousin John Walt, and their high school friend MFn Melo. He is also one third of the supergroup Ghetto Sage, with Smino and Noname.[2]
Saba initially gained recognition after releasing two independent mixtapes: GETCOMFORTable (2012) and ComfortZone (2014). He was also featured on Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap, in the song 'Everybody's Something'. In 2015, Saba and Chance the Rapper collaborated on the song 'Angels'. The duo performed the song live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, on October 26, 2015.[3] He released his debut album Bucket List Project on October 23, 2016 and his sophomore album Care for Me on April 5, 2018 to widespread critical acclaim.[4]
Saba Stay Right Here Mp3 Download
- So just stay right here Love me from the mountain to the grave right here Ain't no way it's ever gonna change right here, yeah Chorus: Saba Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me Verse 3: Mick Jenkins Look at all of the love around me, astounding How niggas still found the time to hate.
- SABA 'Stay Right Here': Mm, ayy, yeah, ayy I woke up this morning feeling just like I'm a star No I don't drink but I might. SABA - Stay Right Here Lyrics AZLyrics.com.
- SABA lyrics - 69 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'Beautiful Smile', 'Something In The Water', 'The Billy Williams Story'.
Early life[edit]
Saba began playing piano at age 7, which led to experimentation with beat making software.[5] He began high school at 12 and graduated at 16 with a 3.5 GPA.[1] He attended St. Joseph's in the suburban Chicago village, Westchester.[1] Saba would pass out mixtapes in his high school hallways to get his name out there. At age 16, Saba began performing at YouMedia Center and Young Chicago Authors (YCA) in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.[1] These after school open mics gave Saba the confidence and charisma he portrays on stages today.[5]
Music career[edit]
2012–2014: GETCOMFORTable and ComfortZone[edit]
In December 2012, Saba shared his first project, GETCOMFORTable. The album is a 'catalogue of young Chicago talents who join Saba in trying to make sense of themselves as rising adults in today’s world.'[5] The most popular song off of GETCOMFORTable was 'Heaux' featuring well-known Chicago rapper, Mick Jenkins.
In 2013, Chance the Rapper and Saba joined forces on Chance the Rapper's album Acid Rap. Saba's verse in the song 'Everybody's Something' increased his popularity. Saba continued rapping in 2013 and began to create his second mixtape, ComfortZone. The mixtape was released on July 2014. Saba used the album as a window into his life, produced the majority of the tracks on the project. He describes his surrounding and his optimistic attitude in his verses.[5] The most popular song off ComfortZone was 'Burnout' featuring Eryn Allen Kane.
2015–2017: Bucket List Project[edit]
Saba contributed to Chance the Rapper and Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment's album Surf on the song 'SmthnThtIWant'. The album was released in May 2015 for free on iTunes. Saba released an instrumental EP called SpareChange! in 2015. The EP consists of 8 tracks available through Soundcloud. Toward the end of 2015 as well, Saba featured on Chance the Rapper's single 'Angels'. Chance the Rapper and Saba performed the song 'Angels' on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday, October 26, 2015. Saba's popularity skyrocketed from his Stephen Colbert performance. The duo represented Chicago's radio stations, with sweatshirts reading '107.5 WGCI' and 'Power 92.3' for the performance.
In January 2016, Saba released the single 'GPS' featuring his father and musical influence, Chandlar. The single was included in his debut album, Bucket List Project, released on October 27, 2016. The album consists of 13 tracks featuring a wide array of other Chicago-based artists such as Noname, Twista, Akenya, Jean Deaux, and his brother Joseph Chilliams. The album focuses on his upbringing on the West Side and spirituality.[6] In July 2016, Saba also appeared on Noname's debut album, Telefone, on the song Shadow Man alongside Phoelix and Smino.
In 2017, Saba released singles titled 'Monday to Monday', 'There You Go', and 'Where Ideas Sing', however, has not announced a subsequent project for these songs. 'Where Ideas Sing' was released on September 28, 2017. Shortly after, September 29, Artwork for the song was featured in downtown Chicago near Apple's new Apple Store on Michigan Avenue. The artwork was to promote both hometown artists Saba and Matthew Hoffman, who created the visual representation of Saba's lyrics.
In late 2017, after the tragic passing of cousin and fellow Pivot Gang member John Walt, Saba and Walt's mother Nachelle started the John Walt Foundation in his memory.[7]
Saba Stay Right Here Lyrics
2018–present: Care for Me[edit]
On February 27, 2018, Saba released the track 'Busy', shortly after announcing a tour for his second album Care for Me.[8] He released Care for Me on April 5, 2018 with tracks featuring Chance the Rapper, Kaina, and theMIND.[9] Put together by producers daedaePIVOT Daoud and Saba himself, the album is dedicated to his late cousin and close friend Walter Long Jr. aka John Walt; who was “fatally stabbed” in Chicago due to a situation on the train in Chicago in February 2017. Walter is heavily mentioned in the songs: 'Busy', 'Life', and 'Prom / King'. the latter recounts the events that Saba and Walter shared with each other leading up to Walter's death.[10]
Saba was named one of 10 'Chicagoans of the Year' by the Chicago Tribune on December 27, 2018, for his music and his contributions to the John Walt Foundation, a foundation named in Walter Long's memory launched by Saba and Long's mother in 2017 to 'foster the arts for Chicago youth'.[11]
Saba and the other members of Pivot Gang released their debut album, You Can't Sit With Us on April 19th, 2019.[12]
Artistry[edit]
Stay Right Here Lyrics
Influences[edit]
Saba was influenced by his father, a Chicago R&B artist named Chandlar, at a young age.[13] Chandlar would bring Saba to the studio with him to record sounds of soul, R&B and jazz.
Saba credits fellow Midwest musicians Lupe Fiasco, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and Kanye West as his biggest influence. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony got Saba into rap and made him want to write raps himself.[5]
Saba was also influenced by his older brother and his older brother's friends. His brother is a rapper who goes by Joseph Chilliams and his cousin was a rapper who went by John Walt. Together, Saba's family and friends, are the backbone of the rap crew Pivot Gang. Pivot Gang is named after the famous scene in Friends where Ross, Rachel, and Chandler move a couch up the stairs and Ross continuously yells, 'pivot.' To the rap crew it means 'to take things one step at a time and to always progress.'[14]
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
| Title | Album details |
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| Bucket List Project |
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| Care for Me |
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Mixtapes[edit]
| Title | Album details |
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| Get Comfortable |
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| Comfort Zone |
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Compilation albums[edit]
| Title | Album details |
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| JIMMY |
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| You Can't Sit With Us |
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Extended plays[edit]
| Title | Album details |
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| SpareChange! |
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Singles[edit]
As lead artist[edit]
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 'GPS' (featuring Twista) | 2016 | Bucket List Project |
| 'Westside Bound 3' (featuring Joseph Chilliams) | ||
| 'World In My Hands' (featuring Smino & LEGIT) | 2017 | |
| 'Monday to Monday'[18] | 2017 | non-album single |
| 'Busy'[19] | 2018 | Care for Me |
| 'Life'[20] | ||
| 'Stay Right Here' {featuring Xavier Omar & Mick Jenkins)[21] | non-album single | |
| 'Papaya' (featuring daedaePIVOT)[22] | non-album single | |
| 'Where It's At'[23] | non-album single |
As featured artist[edit]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [24] | US R&B /HH [25] | |||
| 'Angels'[26] (Chance the Rapper featuring Saba) | 2015 | —[A] | —[B] | Coloring Book |
| 'Pay the Man (Remix)' (Foster the People featuring JID and Saba) | 2017 | — | — | Non-album single |
| 'History' (Ursa The Chef featuring Cub-J, Michael King and Saba) | — | — | ||
Guest appearances[edit]
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 'Own Two (Hold You Down)' | 2013 | The Palmer Squares | Finna |
| 'Everybody's Something' | Chance the Rapper, BJ the Chicago Kid | Acid Rap | |
| 'Bacteria/Fungi/Virus' | Vic Spencer | The Rapping Bastard | |
| 'Ugly Duckling' | 2014 | Trevor the Trash Man | I Want It All |
| 'Play' | 2015 | Rich Robbins | Nimbus |
| 'What Kings Do' | Odd Couple, Carl, Taylor Bennett | Chatterbox | |
| 'Equinox' | Zaramela | Zaramela on AuidoTree Live | |
| 'MIA' | ProbCause | Drifters | |
| 'SmthnthtIwnt' | Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment | Surf | |
| 'Temporary' | Tink | Non-album single | |
| 'VIP' | Chris Crack, Sulaiman | Public Domain 4 | |
| 'Givenchy Coasters' | Chris Crack | Non-album single | |
| 'Faded' | 2016 | Sir Collins, Gianni | Ready Or Not |
| 'Buddha' | Phoelix | Non-album single | |
| 'Herstory' | Anthony Pavel | Windows | |
| 'Shadow Man' | Noname, Phoelix, Smino | Telefone | |
| 'Tears of Legend' | Xavier & The Trill | Trill | |
| 'My Wallet' | Jay IDK, Michael Christmas, Jimi Tents | Empty Bank | |
| 'Riot' | Trapo | Shade Trees | |
| 'Dive Club' | Owen Bones | Dive Club | |
| 'Cornerstore' | Joey Purp, TheMIND | iiiDrops | |
| 'YES' | Isaiah G & Aaron Deux | Grown Adolescence | |
| 'Energies' | 2017 | Mick Jenkins | Or More; the Anxious |
| 'Ace' | 2018 | Noname, Smino | Room 25 |
| 'Basquiat' | 2019 | Jamila Woods | Legacy! Legacy! |
| 'Sacrifices' | EarthGang, J. Cole, Smino | Revenge of the Dreamers III | |
| 'What a Life' | MFnMelo | Everybody Eats | |
| 'Spin Move'[27] | 2020 | Bas, Smino, The Hics | Revenge of the Dreamers III: Director's Cut |
Notes[edit]
- ^'Angels' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number nineteen on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot 100.
- ^'Angels' did not enter the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but peaked at number 4 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart, which acts as an extension to the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Tours[edit]
- Headlining
- ComfortZone Live (2015)
- Bucket List Tour Tour (2017)
- Care For Me Tour (2018)
- Care For Me Tour Aus/Asia (2018)
- Care For Me Tour Europe (2019)
- You Can't Sit With Us Tour (2019)
- Supporting
- Mick Jenkins and Kirk Knight (Mick Jenkins & Kirk Knight) (2015)
- The Drifters Tour (ProbCause) (2015)
- Hotel Paranoia Tour (Jazz Cartier) (2016)
- Catch Me If You Can Tour (JID) (2019)
References[edit]
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- ^Renshaw, David. 'Noname, Saba, and Smino form supergroup Ghetto Sage'. Rolling Stone.
- ^Lipshutz, Jason. 'Chance the Rapper's 'Angels' Single Performs on 'Stephen Colbert''. Fuse. Fuse. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^'Saba: CARE FOR ME'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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- ^Mench, Chris (October 28, 2016). 'Saba's New Project 'Bucket List''. Complex. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^'John Walt Foundation'. John Walt Foundation. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
- ^Schatz, Lake (February 27, 2018). 'Saba stays 'Busy' with new single and video: Watch'. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ^Rinder, Grant. 'Saba Releases Candid, Introspective Album 'Care For Me''. Pigeons & Planes.
- ^'Why Saba's Candid 'Care for Me' Album Tugged at So Many Heartstrings [Recap]'. Okayplayer. 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^Kot, Greg. 'Chicagoan of the Year: Rapper Saba turns grief into a year of musical catharsis'. chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^'Pivot Gang: You Can't Sit With Us'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^Goddard, Kevin. 'Saba - GPS Feat. Chandlar [New Song]'. Hot New Hip Hop. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^G, Lucas. 'From Saba to FRSH Waters, Your Guide to Pivot Gang'. Dj Booth. Purenine Studios. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^'Saba – GETCOMFORTable'. Audiomack. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^'ComfortZone by SABA'. SoundCloud. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^'Saba Releases Instrumental EP, 'SpareChange!''. Hypebeast. September 26, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^'Monday to Monday - Single by Saba on Apple Music'. iTunes. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^'Busy'. iTunes. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^'Life'. iTunes. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^'Stay Right Here'. Apple iTunes. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^'Papaya'. Apple iTunes. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^'Where It's At'. Apple iTunes. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
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- ^'Chance the Rapper – Chart History: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs'. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ^'Angels (feat. Saba) - Single by Chance the Rapper on Apple Music'. itunes.apple.com. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
- ^'Dreamville Share 'Revenge Of The Dreamers III Deluxe' Tracklist & Cover Art'. HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 16 January 2020.