In the span of a year and a half Joshua Marbutt has accomplished a lot in his short yet promising career. Marbutt who is now better known by his stage name DryBoy who’s single “Summer Nights featuring Clever” has recently been featured on WorldStarHipHop’s YouTube channel.
As a teenager DryBoy was always attracted toward music on a deeper level. While in middle school he would visit his friend who’s older brother had an in home studio. There he would write rhymes, freestyle and dance alongside his friends to classic hip-hop beats.
“DryBoy’s dope, we’ve been friends since middle school and growing up I always knew he was going somewhere in life with the things he loves doing.”
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DryBoy recalls recording his first single called “Lost” alongside a group of friends over a year ago. The song which was written to a Young Thug Type Beat was recorded using a guitar hero microphone with a sock over it.
“It was a very ghetto setup, it was a fun process, at the end of the song if you listen to it you can hear everybody in the room laughing. It made the song more genuine in my opinion, like you can tell that was the first song, that’s when we started fucking around.”
In Sept. of 2018 he released his first music video for his single “All I Know.” Which was followed by an EP release titled “Bipolar” that Dec. After that he began to release only singles throughout 2019. He truly enjoys creating music and believes being able to influence people's moods through his music is a powerful instrument he possesses.
“I feel like God has given me the secret sauce to do this. Because a lot of people who started doing this aren’t even at the point where I’m at right now I’m like blessed. I feel like I’ve been taking the right steps and I definitely thank God for that one.”
Within the past year DryBoy has done what a lot of artists starting up would want to do such as being the opening act for local artists such as Calboy, Cdot Honcho, Lil Durk and G Herbo as well as YBN Nahmir.
“Josh is one of the most determined and ambitious artists I have met. He’s gonna be a star and nobodies going to stop what he has coming.
Joshua Talbot-Bowe aka The WildCard
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In early 2019 he recorded “Summer Nights” which was inspired by a nice day cruising around with the windows down while listening to beats on YouTube. As soon as he got home he began to write to a beat that he found and immediately knew it was gonna be a summer hit.
His manger got in contact with Clever’s manager they heard the song and next thing you know it he recorded his verse. Then in Aug. DryBoy flew out to Florida to meet up with Clever and film the music video.
On Oct. 4, 2019 the music video premiered on WorldStarHipHop’s YouTube channel and since then has amassed over 200,000 views and over 500,000 streams across all music streaming services.
Most recently he linked up with Cdot Honcho for his latest single “Hop In.”
“Hop in is just lit I normally don’t make music like that but I heard the beat and I was like yo! I wanna make music that someone can listen to and get hyped with and bob their heads.”
The music video for “Hop In” is expected to be released before the end of the year. In 2020 he doesn’t plan on releasing a project just yet. He will focus on pushing out singles and music videos this upcoming year. DryBoy is currently in the talks of accompanying another artist on a nationwide tour.
Stream DryBoy’s Juice Wrld tribute song here.
