With a high, loopy, perfectly imperfect voice and a woozy but hard-partying flow, this winsome Atlanta rapper/singer became an instant sensation when Drake jumped on his 2014 breakout hit, the karaoke and bottle-service favourite “Tuesday”. With an eye for trap-pop hooks that combine silliness and steeliness—his lyrics suggest that most of his prior work experience is slightly illegal—ILOVEMAKONNEN's sonic and emotional range is deceptively huge. Triangulating Future's grunting menace and Ol' Dirty Bastard's clown-prince affability, he knows the sky's the limit, even when he ends up on the floor.