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Bio

King Yosef is the project of musician, singer & producer Tayves Yosef Pelletier from Portland, OR. Having started the King Yosef project in his teens, releases under the moniker are “more extreme and closer to the bleeding edge than most of today’s internet-grown hip-hop. Though he’s produced songs for Billboard Hot 100-charting rap artist like the late XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God, Yosef animates the lo-fi blown-out brood-scuzz of Soundcloud rap with the vein-popping screams of hardcore and the mechanical noise of industrial” (from a recent profile piece in REVOLVER Magazine).

Yosef began producing for a number of artists in 2014 with a consistent string of releases and by 2015, found himself in more of a niche within the underground community of Soundcloud. This would eventually lead to his joining of the group Members Only, fronted by the late XXXTentacion, as well as meeting his future collective members of the Red Mirror artist collective (Fifty Grand, Gin$eng, Hellion & Kellbender).

While Yosef was continuing to produce for other artists he was starting to develop his own solo material, as well as writing for his band Cogent. In this time the King Yosef project started to blend in more diverse influences which would eventually be showcased on the 2017 release Fortune Teller. An eight-song album featuring one song with vocals, laying the groundwork for what would follow.

2018 would see the release of his sophomore album Guilty, a combination of metal, industrial, and hip-hop. This release solidified the King Yosef trademark which continued on subsequent singles such as “Lurch,” “Pity Case” and “Stygian.”

Currently in the midst of writing a new album, King Yosef has also been focusing his energy on co-producing and developing with an array of artists such as Zheani, Ghrins, and Punishment Suite. He is also working on new releases for his side projects Bruised Core and Possible Jumper.

5.1k Instagram Followers
6,723 Monthly Listeners on Spotify
382,548 Total streams on Spotify
340,900 Total streams on SoundCloud
4.7k Twitter Followers

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