Simele:ukuba awuyazi UShamir, awukwazi ukufumana umbono wejewel oyilahlekileyo. U-Shamir Bailey, ovela eLas Vegas, eneminyaka eyi-21 ubudala, unokuqhayisa ngokuthengisa enye yee-albhamu eziphambili kakhulu kuzo zonke esinazo ze-2015. kunye no-Azari kunye no-III, uMoloko, u-Beck, u-Hercules kunye no-Love Affair kunye namagcisa eendlela ezifanayo. Kodwa isangqa siyanda xa ilizwi lika-Shamir liqala ukudlala, kwaye imagazini efanayo yeVogue yeza ukumthelekisa kunye neengoma ze-80s zikaJanet Jackson kunye neNkosana.
Olo gxeko lweza kunye neEP yabo yokuqala, 'Northtown', emva kokuba bekwazile ukusayina isivumelwano neleyibhile yakwaGodmode, emva kokubathumelele iidemos ezininzi. Kwakuyi 'Northtown' apho uShamir ekwazile ukuchukumisa abagxeki, ngenxa yobutsha bakhe kunye nelizwi lakhe elithile. Ngo-Okthobha ka-2014 u-Shamir watyikitya kunye neeRekhodi ze-XL kwaye kwakukho nabo apho wakhupha i-albhamu yakhe yokuqala yesitudiyo, 'Iratchet', eyathengiswa ngoMeyi 18 kunye ne-19 e-United Kingdom nase-United States, ngokulandelanayo, kwakhona ifumana ukugxeka okukhulu kwaye kwakhona ngelizwi lakhe.
Kwiveki ephelileyo ikliphu entsha yevidiyo ethi 'Ratchet' iphume, ngeli xesha leyo ihambelana nomxholo 'Ngokubulala', Ividiyo elawulwa ngu-Anthony Sylvester apho u-Shamir, ngaphakathi kwe-UFO, uhambisa imodeli ekhohlo nasekunene, emele umsebenzi onzima wabo bonke abafuna ukufumana indawo yomculo.