One of my new favorite artists is an up-and-coming rapper from Portland, Oregon: Adam Aminé Daniel, also known as just Aminé (Not Anime, Aminey, or Anemone). Well-known for his debut single, "Caroline," Aminé is one of the youngest rappers currently alive to achieve a triple platinum song.

However, just because Aminé is young (23 years old) does not mean he is new to his craft. His music career began when he wrote diss tracks to rivals of his high school alma mater. Aminé originally planned on playing basketball, but was unfortunately cut from the team.

Aminé studied marketing at Portland State University and does all of the graphic design for his projects. In fact, the newspaper he is holding on the cover of his debut studio album, "Good For You," is a real newspaper he designed himself. After the release of "Good For You," he created art installations in New York, Los Angeles, and his hometown, Portland, where he handed out copies of the paper to fans.

Portland is a very important place to Aminé, and he isn't afraid to state it. Interestingly enough, Portland isn't well-known for rap music at all, and is instead stereotypically known as a home for hipsters and indie-rock lovers. Portland has a very low population of non-white people, because of a law that did not allow black people in Oregon until only a few decades ago. Aminé has the chance to become the first rapper to be well-known out of Portland, and he has already started on this opportunity.

Aminé has hit the ground running, and now that his debut album is out, he is going on his own headlining tour, and creating waves on TV with two appearances on late night television; he has performed "Caroline" and "Wedding Crashers" on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night With Seth Meyers," respectively.

The son of Ethiopian and Eritrian immigrant parents, Aminé holds his identity close to him. Aminé isn't afraid to get political, and during his performance on "The Tonight Show," he changed the lyrics from Caroline into a rant about President Donald Trump, specifically criticizing his racist tendencies. In further criticism of Donald Trump, Aminé told Rolling Stone Magazine "My parents are immigrants to this country... They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else. So if anyone else, whether they're running for president or whatever they're trying to do, if they're bashing the people who are just working hard and trying to make a better life for themselves by coming to America, I believe that's completely wrong. To see someone like that do something like that and become president is just a testimony to where we are at culturally in America right now."

You can get tickets to Aminé's "Good For You Tour" here.