ANoyd is the stage name of Dashorn Whitehead, an MC from Bloomfield, Connecticut. His delivery is direct, confident, and energetic, and his lyrics reflect on racial issues, relationship troubles, and other life struggles. His storytelling skills are clearly inspired by '90s rap icons such as Nas and OutKast, and his beats (often produced by RichBreed or Ty Nitty) range from trap, on early releases like 2015's Summer in Sinsinati, to breakbeat-driven boom-bap, as on the 2019 Statik Selektah collaboration Yuck! Whitehead is the son of reggae artist Chuck Fenda. He began rapping after he graduated high school, and his first EP, ANoydwithLife (produced by RichBreed), dropped in 2014. During the same year, Whitehead made a guest appearance on Apathy's album Connecticut Casual. Full-length mixtape Summer in Sinsinati followed in 2015. In early 2016, ANoyd released "Black Privilege" in response to Macklemore's "White Privilege." The year also saw the release of Once in a Brgndi Moon and Autumn in Sinsinati, as ANoyd toured across the country and became one of Connecticut's most well-known rappers. A Time and Place appeared in 2017, and ANoyd subsequently appeared on releases by Chris Webby, Termanology, and Statik Selektah. Blame It on Jay Z, inspired by the New York rapper's 4:44, was released in 2018. A full-length collaboration with Statik Selektah, Yuck!, arrived in 2019. Several solo singles and collaborations with Webby appeared throughout 2020. ~ Paul Simpson