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One-hit wonder or second act? Rap phenom Blueface says, 'I ain't going nowhere'

LOS ANGELES - Late last month, on an overcast afternoon in Hollywood, L.A. rapper Blueface arrived at an album release party at the Roosevelt Hotel. It wasn't for his own record, but it might as well have been.

As dozens of fans, industry movers and deep entourages mingled while the Game's new LP bumped from the speakers, handlers whisked 22-year-old Blueface (born Johnathan Porter) to a private cabana in the back of the pool. Staff brought over magnums of Veuve Clicquot Champagne while onlookers snapped clandestine pictures from beyond the velvet rope line.

Blueface is easy to recognize, even in that crowd. Six-foot-four and ropy, he still passes for the high-school quarterback he used to be. It's impossible to miss the

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