Born Avante Smith in the Bronx, the former choir singer came of age in the heyday of New York’s drill movement. But Vontee’s hyper-melodic, half-rapped/half-sung style fits in much better with the genre’s newer, smoother offshoot known as “sexy drill,” collaborating regularly with scene pioneer Cash Cobain. The singer entered Shazam’s radar last April with his single “For Us,” where he waxed poetic in Auto-Tune over a soulful Cash Cobain production.