2017 has been a fantastic year for music. With albums such as DAMN., More Life, 4:44, Issa Album, Wins & Losses, 17, Luv Is Rage 2, and more premiering this year. Due to Soundcloud’s growing number of listeners, more and more artist are emerging from this music platform.
Artists such as Kodak Black, XXXTentacion, Post Malone, and more have become widely popular due to Soundcloud and have grown to have millions of fans and plays on their albums. As a collective, Brain Bakery Mag has come up with some of our opinions of the best up and coming artists of 2017.
*In no particular order*
- Lil Pump
Lil Pump, (born Gazzy Garcia) is an artist from Miami Florida. In a short time, Lil Pump was able to gather enough fans and later went on the No Jumper tour and performed at Rolling Loud. At only 17 years old, Lil Pump was able to hit number three on the US Billboards Top 100 with his hit single “Gucci Gang” produced by Bighead. He is also well known for his other songs “D rose” and “Boss” that combined, have more than 70 million plays on Soundcloud.
2. Smokepurrp
Smokepurrp, born as Omar Pineiro, has one of the hottest songs that premiered on Soundcloud with “Audi.” In March, Smokepurrp signed to Interscope Records and Alamo Records. He later released his mixtape Deadstar that has features that include Juicy J and Travis Scott.
3. Trippie Redd
Trippie Redd, born as Michael White, has become so popular during the later part of this year. The Ohio native’s songs “Love Scars/ You hurt me” and “Bust Down/ Love Scars 3” have over 50 million plays together. Teaming up with XXXTentacion and Tekashi69 along with other rappers such as Lil Pop, Trippie Redd has become of the biggest artists emerging from Soundcloud.
4. UnoTheActivist
UnoTheActivist has been working hard on his music and it is finally paying off. Atlanta rapper is well-known for his song “What” featuring his cousin Playboi Carti. He released his album in September titled “Live.Shyne.Die” with features from Kodie Shane, Famous Dex, and more.
5. Young Nudy
Young Nudy is a 24year old Atlanta rapper. He gained attention and plenty of fans after being featured on 21 Savage’s song “Air It Out” and surprisingly 21 Savage’s cousin. After releasing his latest project, Nudy Land, Young Nudy has been gaining plenty of popularity and will for sure come out with more hits within this new year.