Nesby Phips
NESBY PHIPS
Nesby Phips is a producer, rapper and fine artist from New OrleanS.
Nesby Phips' sound draws from the jazz, rhythm and blues, and rap traditions of New Orleans as well as global musical traditions, including Ethiopian jazz. Phips's ongoing association with Curren$y and the Jet Life movement resulted in some of his top-selling works of the late 2000s, including the tracks "Prioritize" and "Hold On" off the Pilot Talk 1 & 2 albums. In 2011, he issued the recording The Catch Up, which included previously released Phips hits like the Wiz Khalifa track "Supply" off of Khalifa's mixtape Kush and Orange Juice, which garnered critical attention from New York Magazine, as well as "Word to these Bo Jacksons." GQ Magazine picked Phips's "Passive Casanova" as one of the top 25 records of the summer in 2014.
Most recently music from his album THERAPY was featured in Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger series.