The boyboy west coast

Already have digital access? Log in. Print subscriber? Activate digital access. The year-old Mexican American and Santa Barbara-based rapper had prior run-ins with police, so he was nervous as the cops approached him.

Memes are acts of beautiful futility. Most importantly, all memes have a shelf life. It just got its official release but, unfortunately, it may be too late for it to capitalize on its viral status. Eight months ago, BoyBoy West Coast, a completely unknown rapper from Southern California, released a charming video of himself lip syncing to a then-unnamed song.

Something strange happened the first time I gazed vicariously through Instagram into the eyes of The Boyboy West Coast. These are eyes that shine with a tenderness clearly lacking in my daily life, nestled under eyebrows that look like two commas in Baskerville font. My first encounter with the eyes of The Boyboy West Coast occurred, as probably yours did, in an Instagram video posted last fall. I must have played that minute-long clip of the first verse, and the subsequent clip of the second verse, at least a hundred times, mentally fusing them into full-length form. It is powerful magic.