WHAT IT IS: Only a year after posting his first notable work online, the 18-year-old from Canton, Ohio, has quickly carved out a critical spot in rap’s new underground. His first mixtape recently cracked the Top 200 Chart at #121, hit DSPs in May of this year and has since amassed more than 80m streams. Recently featured on XXXTENTACION’s “Fuck Love,” which in itself has garnered 30m+ streams, this artist on the rise plans to drop two more singles ahead of his second mixtape, out this fall
ALBUM: A Love Letter To You
RELEASE DATE: 10/6
SINGLE: “Love Scars”
LIVE: Spot dates have included collabs with XXX and Fools Gold Day Off
INTERNET: More than 1.5m monthly listeners on Spotify; 610k Instagram followers, adding 50k per week
RADIO: Impacting Urban Mainstream 10/2
PRESS: XXL (“He’s ready to be rap’s next rock star”), Pigeons & Planes (“Every now and then, an artist comes along and pushes things to an exciting new extreme”), Mass Appeal (“Redd is truly one of hip hop’s biggest rockstars today”)
BOOKING: Erin Larsen/Paradigm
PUBLISHING: Self-published
MANAGEMENT: Milo Stokes/Solid Foundation (Coach K & Pee)