Dive into the features you want to see

2024 2025 Absolut absolutx abuse alltogethernow AMANDA ADE aoifemcardle art artist spotlight atn AVA AVA2025 beamish Belfast Best New Music BHM big sleep Black History Month BMW Booze Bulmers caribou centrepoint city mixer Climate Coffee counter culture Cover Story Culture dan snaith data centre Derry Design Direct Provision district district gig guide DJ documentary donjulio Drugs Dublin efé election electronicmusic elizarose emigration Fashion feature Festival Fianna Fáil Film Fine Gael forbes forbes30under30 forbiddenfruit Future of Irish Music gambling gig guide Gigs Guinness Hennessy Heverlee Housing ILFD Interview ireland irish acts irish albums irish directors Irish Language irish music irishmusic Israel izzy copestake Jack Daniel's Jagermeister Jameson japan JULIE MORISSY july khakikid Know Your Rights LGBTQ+ Lists Literature Living Hell Love lucozade Made by District Made in Ireland manifestos march gig guide Mental Health milesreilly Music New Music News nightlife No Booze other voices othervoices Palestine peggygou Photography PIPPA MALONY Pitching pod Politics Premiere rachelbaptiste Rental Rights Romance rtelyricfm saibhdownes SaintStreet sallyc SAOIRSE MILLER SARAGH CREIGHTON KEOGH september gig guide severance Sex Shite Talk Signature Dish sjaney Smirnoff smithwicks smithwicks sessions Sports Streetwear Student Sustainability Technology The Greens Theatre top 20 albums top singles 2024 Top Ten Tracks trad tradfest trans rights TV Ultimate Food Guide USA video premiere Visual Art vote women writing
Food / August 12, 2021

Anderson .Paak just invested his album money into a sushi restaurant

anderson paak @anderson._paak
Food / August 12, 2021

Anderson .Paak just invested his album money into a sushi restaurant

Words: Emily Mullen

The news comes months after Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars dominated the US airwave charts with their co-written album, Silk Sonic



Far from falling into the typical trappings of musical fame, Anderson .Paak has invested the money he made from his latest album, Silk Sonic into the food business.

The rapper announced that he was opening a sushi restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California, with his business partner Christian Corben the founder of Taisho Hospitality.

“The boy done invested his #silksonic money,” Paak wrote, calling the food served in Taisho the “best sushi in town”.

“The foodies are calling it “BUSSIN!!“ he added, “tell them you know AP and they will charge you full price with no hesitation! God is the greatest!”

A poke around the Instagram account set up for the restaurant shows Taisho’s to be a pretty standard sushi restaurant, with little reference to its Grammy Award-winning owner. Its bio boasts, “New-Style Sashimi | Sushi | Sake | Cocktails | Vibes”.

Paak attributes this investment down to his involvement with the Silk Sonic album, which he co-wrote with Bruno Mars. The album made up of 70’s disco-inflected songs, had a song Leave the Door Open that topped the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Elsewhere on District: For Those I Love and Fontaines D.C. nominated for Ivor Novello Awards 2021