Two weeks ago, Jaboukie Young-White, the 28-year-old “Daily Show” comedian, actor and FBI antagonist, released a virtuosically filthy club track, “BBC.” Rest assured, the title’s acronym isn’t an ode to British television. But his debut single (for Interscope Records, no less) is a genuinely adept slice of early ‘90s Chicago house music in the spirit of raunchy, lo-fi labels like Dance Mania.
Given house music’s exultant “Renaissance” this summer — “ I feel honored that I was thinking within any remotely similar mental headspace as Beyoncé,” Young-White said — “BBC” could definitely hold its own in DJ sets alongside “Cozy.”
On the phone from his home in New York City, Young-White (musically known as “Jaboukie”) talked about his lifelong passion for Chicago dance music, his writing on an animated film inspired by the late rapper Juice Wrld and what he owes to his now-departed “Daily Show” mentor Trevor Noah. (Young-White was a correspondent from 2018 to 2021.)
