The teenage phenom from Chicago’s South Side embodies the spirit of the drill movement that emerged from the streets of his hometown when he was graduating pre-school; his versatile flow combines the bluster of Chief Keef with the wordplay of G Herbo. 2024 was major for the baby-faced MC: he dropped his two-disc debut album, ANIMALS ONLY (ICE COLD), and landed four separate songs on Shazam’s US charts. (His smack-talk-heavy single “The Viper” has been a fixture since its September release.)