early life crisis

early life crisis

The impish teenage rapper broke through in late 2023 with slurry bursts of songs created on the fly and on his phone. In 2024, the Justin Bieber of fried internet rap dropped his first mixtape, BAD ASS F*CKING KID, an unprecedentedly polished sampler of his dazed non sequiturs and sparkly, blown-out beats. The long-awaited debut album from the 18-year-old rapper is longer and less pristine, a 21-track playground for Nettspend’s wildest vocal tics and isolated moments of free-associative poetry. (“Apple in my eye, snake in my neck, it bit me,” he gargles on “ce” over a Legion beat that sounds like an AI data center exploding.) Producers CXO, Rok, and Ok contribute dizzy, distorted beats à la Che and OsamaSon, the latter of whom appears for a feature on “pain talk,” while YoungBoy Never Broke Again makes a cameo on “masked up.”