Since he came to the spotlight a little more than a decade ago, Sturgill Simpson has explored a bunch of different genres of music: psychedelic outlaw country, gritty blues-rock, old-timey bluegrass. Under his Johnny Blue Skies alter-ego, Simpson just released the disco-rock-country-funk experiment Mutiny After Midnight, and he and his band are about to take it out on tour. But it turns out that Simpson has been experimenting with genre for longer than anyone knew. Today, we get to see his '90s-rapper incarnation.
On Facebook last week, someone posted an ancient home video that seems to show a young Sturgill Simpson freestyle rapping rapping about going to prom and hanging out with his friends. It sure looks like young Simpson, whose sleepy-eyed visage hasn't changed as much as you might expect. Simpson is now 47, and based on the fashions and haircuts in the clip, I'd put it somewhere around 1996.
Look at this kid go. One friend beatboxes. Another one kind of claps and stands there. And baby Sturgill Simpson is like, "Those rhymes and the styles we kick/ Everybody be knowin', these the friends I pick." Check out it below.
Related: If anyone has any footage of me doing goofy shit as a teenager in the '90s, please set it on fire and then set the ashes on fire again, just to be sure.
