In 2018, the band toured North America and Europe and appeared at Australia's Falls Music & Arts Festival. While not winning the Tiny Desk Contest, Hobo Johnson & the LoveMakers appeared on Tiny Desk on an episode released on September 12, 2018. On May 12, they staged a small protest that delayed the beginning of his sold-out show at Sacramento's Ace of Spades nightclub. At this time, Lopes also drew criticism from the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter, who accused him of using Oak Park's name without consent and of cultural appropriation. Following the attention of the "Peach Scone" video, their album The Rise of Hobo Johnson charted at #11 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart for the week ending March 31, 2018. The song "Peach Scone" collected millions of views in just a few weeks. Hobo Johnson and the LoveMakers released a music video on Facebook as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Contest on March 7, 2018. That year, he won four Sacramento Area Music Awards: Artist of the Year, Best Hip-Hop/Rap, Best Emcee and Best New Artist. After the release of the second version of "The Rise Of Hobo Johnson", Lopes signed to Reprise Records. In 2016, he released the album The Rise of Hobo Johnson independently, but later created a new version of the album in 2017 which had changes to the production and a different tracklist. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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Starting in December 2016, he released a series of live recordings on YouTube subtitled "Live from Oak Park". He came up with his stage name "Homeless Johnson" but soon made it "Hobo Johnson" while living in his car, a 1994 Toyota Corolla, and named his 2015 debut album in honor of his car. He is a fan of the Sacramento Kings and has referenced them multiple times in the lyrics to his songs, most notably in the song "Sacramento Kings Anthem (We're Not That Bad)", written about the struggles the Kings have in the NBA.Īt age 15, Lopes began performing music and hip-hop. For a stretch of time, Lopes worked at a pizza restaurant in Sacramento, but he soon quit to pursue his passion for music. When he was 19, he was kicked out of his house by his father and subsequently lived in his car. With his quirky, spoken-word delivery and street-busking guitar playing, “I Want To See The World” is a charming and thought-provoking track.Lopes is a Mexican/ Portuguese-American from California.
Speaking about these topics seems so important to me now, and makes me wonder why anyone liked my older music“.
I’m grateful for the lyric “if you look too hard, then you just might find, the bottom of a bottle” is in there because it rings true the newfound hopelessness that comes along with this perspective. At the same time, this new evaluation is far different than the rhetoric we’ve been given through popular media, and is hard to accept as a possible reality. COVID really allowed me, and a lot of people it seems, the time to reevaluate the country and society we live in. He explains: “‘ I want to see the world’ is my favorite song I’ve ever written because it really articulates the last year of my life. Stepping into the next chapter of his career while embracing the re-opening of the world, Lopes shares a unique perspective on the ability to see the world on the new song. Real-name Frank Lopes Jr, his unique and raw style has captured a cult-like following, and nothing has changed on the new track. Sacramento-based artist Hobo Johnson has made his return with the globetrotting new single “I Want To See The World”, his first taste of new music since his 2019 album The Fall of Hobo Johnson.
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