"All Eyez On Me" took the sped-up edit style of nightcore, a remix genre I'd been obsessed with for ages, as its starting point. Across 84 seconds of stuttery-gurgly indignation, he squeals about getting head and compares his haters to ticks and fleas (really, he's the one who sounds as shrill as an insect)."
"This was during the first year of COVID, when a generation of kids were locked inside and rotting on Discord VCs. I had fallen down a chasm on SoundCloud and found my way to Luci4's page. His occult ritual craziness reminded me of the thrill I felt discovering cloud rap nearly a decade prior."
"Though he was based in California, Luci4-who also went by 4jay and Axxturel at points- descended from Memphis horrorcore and SpaceGhostPurrp's shadowy strain of Florida rap, and was a member of SGP's collective Black Money Boyz Deathrow. Eventually he formed his own, Jewelxxet."
Luci4 was an underground rapper and producer who created experimental music blending nightcore aesthetics with horrorcore and Florida rap influences. He began producing drill beats as a teenager after receiving FL Studio and gained early attention when rapper Tay-K sampled his beat. Based in California but rooted in Memphis and SpaceGhostPurrp's dark rap traditions, Luci4 was part of the Black Money Boyz Deathrow collective before forming his own group, Jewelxxet. His music combined cryptic titles, fantasy-inspired cover art from Blingee, and unconventional vocal production. During COVID-19's lockdown period, his experimental sound resonated with isolated youth on Discord and SoundCloud, influencing the broader underground music scene.
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