Rising down south with a rawness that permeates each track he approaches, Rot Ken is a true one-of-a-kind talent. Continuing to flaunt his versatility, Ken teams with Slaughter Gang rapper and fellow Georgia native, Yung Sinn, to share his new video for “Yea Yea.” The video sees Ken and Sinn posted up at an abandoned self-service car wash in Decatur, GA. Shot in the gray of winter, the scene creates a backdrop of hopelessness that Ken is motivated to overcome as his rhymes animate the scene: “I sell it for 5, but I got it for 1, I’m just tryna make a better way/I came from the hood, I know how you feel, I’m praying these youngins gon’ relate.”
“Yea Yea” is the latest video from Ken’s new project, Yahweh Child, arriving on the heels of “Solo,” released in late January. Signed to a joint venture with Taz Taylor‘s Internet Money and JetsonMade‘s BoyMeetSpace, Rot Ken has earned co-signs from two of the industry’s top producers, who trust him to annihilate some of their most invigorating instrumentals. On Yahweh Child, the young rapper demonstrates that their faith is not unfounded, as he rains down triplet flows and searing hooks like manna from heaven. Home to recent singles “Mask On,“ “Heartless,” and “No Mind” (1.2 million Spotify streams), Yahweh Child is available everywhere via BoyMeetSpace / Internet Money / 10K Projects.
Rot Ken made a name for himself in 2022 as one of the Georgia trap scene’s hottest up-and-comers. Yahweh Child is the follow-up to May’s Free Me, a 17-track project that showed his range, and demonstrated his singular ability to cut through immersive production with effervescent flows. The Augusta native’s project featured underground hits like “Baby Choppa“ (1.7 million Spotify streams), “Heartbreak Kid“ (1.7 million Spotify streams), and “Beautiful,” a collaboration with SoFaygo that racked up over 3.9 million Spotify streams. With additional appearances from Kalan.FrFr, Hunxho, and 21 Lil Harold, the 17-track Free Me project is available everywhere now.
Focused firmly on the future and with some of the best producers in the game in his corner, there’s no stopping Rot Ken’s rise to the top of the rap game. Stay tuned for much more.
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