Paranoia: A True Story is the debut EP by New York rapper Dave East. It chronicles his struggles coming from the projects of East Harlem and how his life his changed since breakout mixtape Black Rose. Just a year after becoming an XXL Freshman, mainstream success still seemed miles away from East before he crafted this album. However, soon afterwards the EP gave him his first real hit, “Perfect”, featuring RnB icon Chris Brown. Along with the star, East scored many other high class features such as French Montana, trap veteran Jeezy, and hip hop legend Nas. Dave East went over the process of the album during an interview with high snobiety, saying, I recorded the majority of it in L.A. so that was new. Different energy over there… and just knowing the hype around it and being able to work with the different people I wanted to work with. I didn’t really have a hard time contacting any producers or artists that I wanted to have on the team, so it kind of went real smooth this time around.