Dragonborn (album)


Dragonborn is a debut studio album by Russian rapper Egor Rakitin, professionally known as Big Baby Tape. It was released on November 16, 2018, has guest appearances by Husky, Boulevard Depo, i61, Jeembo, White Punk, and other.

Background

Before the release of album, Big Baby Tape released two singles: Wasabi and Flip Phone Twerk. After the release of Hoodrich Tales, Big Baby Tape said, he working with Dragonborn. From time to time, at the time of recording, various passages of Egor's songs hit the Internet, most of which were not included in the final track listing of the album. In the autumn of 2018, Big Baby Tape published an excerpt of a music video on the single Flip Phone Twerk, announcing that its release should not be expected. The reason for naming your album is several factors: the artist’s birth year is 2000, the favorite video game is “”, as well as the previously recorded tracks Hokage and Benzo Gang Money, which predominate in oriental sound. This Egor said in an interview with radio station "Studio 21".

Release

November 16, 2018, the release of the debut studio album Dragonborn, released on the label "Warner Music Russia". Boulevard Depo, Husky, Jeembo, i61, White Punk and others also took part in the recording of the music release. And as producers were FrozenGangBeatz, Meep, White Punk, Egor himself and many others. A few days after the release of the album, the Gimme the Loot track took the first position on the song charts “Apple Music”, “iTunes Store”, “Vkontakte”, shifting the latest albums of Feduk and Eldzhey, as well as ahead of Sicko Mode by Travis Scott and Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande on “Genius”. A week after the release, Dragonborn sold 50,000 copies of the album sold in equivalent on the territory of the Russian Federation and received the first platinum certification from Warner Music Russia. At the moment, the studio album has a triple platinum status. The single Gimme the Loot was released separately from the album Dragonborn on December 21, 2018 on Apple Music with censorship.

Track listing