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I called Makonnen on the phone and asked him if he’s still trapping. He said, “No ma’a… uh, no sir”. You see, Makonnen has little need for trapping anymore and with good reason—dude’s career is on fire and it seems like their are few nicer, or more deserved people it could have happened to. By now the Makonnen origin story is infamous; a couple weeks after the death of a friend, two young men have resolved to escape a drug-cloaked existence by joining the air force. The two friends are hanging out in a car. One of them has a gun. That gun goes off, and one of them dies—the other is charged with manslaughter.

That young man is Makonnen, and the subsequent years of house arrest and isolation acted as a petri dish that cultivated his voice into something remarkably unique. His unassuming, objectionably flawed vibrato is delivered with an unmistakable honesty that can be emotionally stirring, and also live as fuck. After asking him about his trapping status, we also spoke on other things ranging from love to Snapchat (iLoveMakonnen5d), scroll through the above gallery and read all about it.

iLoveMakonnen will be touring Australia for Listen Out this September, details here.

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