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Simultaneously street and country with an elastic, no-nonsense flow,
Yella Beezy represents the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Active since the early 2010s, he released several mixtapes before breaking through when his 2017 track "That's on Me" became a slow-burning hit. His subsequent full-length, 2018's
Ain't No Goin' Bacc, hit the top half of the Billboard 200 album chart.
Beezy has released several mixtapes, including Lil Yella Mane (2012), Country Rap Tunes (2015), Lite Work (2015), and Broke Nights Rich Days (2017). The second volume of Lite Work (also 2017) featured "That's on Me," a track with a video viewed well over four million times within four months of release. The song gradually picked up radio airplay throughout America, becoming a sleeper hit.
Beezy's momentum continued with the March 2018 upload of an official clip for the
Lil Baby collaboration "Up One," another track off Lite Work, Vol. 2. Its views exceeded 1.5 million in less than a week. In October of that year, the rapper was the victim of a drive-by shooting that left him briefly hospitalized after sustaining three gunshot wounds. Even this traumatic event didn't slow his momentum, and
Beezy recovered quickly to sign with indie label HITCO and release
Ain't No Goin' Bacc in November. The album included a star-studded version of "That's on Me" featuring
2 Chainz,
T.I., Jeezy, and others.
By mid-2019,
Beezy had surpassed the billion-times-played mark across all streaming platforms. On the back of this landmark, he released the
Baccend Beezy mixtape, another strong collection of dark and booming Southern rap with guest stars ranging from
Young Thug to Too Short. Two stand-alone tracks arrived in 2020 with "Ay Ya Ya Ya" featuring
Ty Dolla $ign and "Headlocc" featuring
Young Thug. ~ Andy Kellman