A Spooky Banger – PAYDAY
PAYDAY returns with the release of her brand new rap-heavy mixtape, ‘Rap In A Can,’ featuring the lead single “Vampire” (feat. Danny Brown), which PAYDAY calls “the perfect spooky banger.”
‘Rap In A Can’ follows her well-received House of P.U.K.E. EP series released across July 2020 through June 2021, earning praise from Zane Lowe, The FADER, and Lyrical Lemonade, in addition to very strong DSP support. PAYDAY’s new mixtape comes just in time as she is set to embark on the first tour of her career featuring direct support slots with AG Club, Remi Wolf, and headline performances at Austin City Limits. This latest project is just the tip of the ice-berg of what’s to come from the proud all-American blue-collar California-born and based (by-way-of Louisiana, Texas and Seattle) teen. ‘Rap In A Can’ is out now via COR / TAN Records.
Listen to “Vampire” (feat. Danny Brown) HERE.
Speaking about the new project, PAYDAY reveals, “The project is cohesive and has a very simple message... I’m the dopest 17 yr old rapper living. I honestly think so. I’m ready for whoever’s tryna prove that they’re better. I just don't know of anyone out here who’s doin it like me."
Listen to PAYDAY’s ‘Rap In A Can’ mixtape HERE
This summer, PAYDAY released her ‘House Of P.U.K.E.: The Complete Collection’ (LISTEN), a compilation album, featuring previously released tracks from all three volumes of her popular ‘P.U.K.E. Tapes’ (PAYDAY’s Unbelievably Killer EP) series of EPs, plus three previously unreleased new tracks. On focus track, “Ode To Soulja Girl,” PAYDAY links up with Bay Area hip hop collective, AG Club, who recently dropped their debut album FYE (Fuck Your Expectations) Pt 1 and Pt 2 this past spring, and whom she will be joining on tour as support later this month.
In other news, PAYDAY will make her US festival debut this October at Austin City Limits, playing both weekends on Saturday, October 2 and October 10th. She will also join AG Club on the road for their 2021 North American tour, confirmed to play Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn on September 26th, with other shows set for Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Santa Ana, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, before concluding in Oakland, California on October 24th. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit everyonelovespayday.com.
This summer, PAYDAY released her ‘House Of P.U.K.E.: The Complete Collection’ (LISTEN), a compilation album, featuring previously released tracks from all three volumes of her popular ‘P.U.K.E. Tapes’ (PAYDAY’s Unbelievably Killer EP) series of EPs, plus three previously unreleased new tracks. On focus track, “Ode To Soulja Girl,” PAYDAY links up with Bay Area hip hop collective, AG Club, who recently dropped their debut album FYE (Fuck Your Expectations) Pt 1 and Pt 2 this past spring, and whom she will be joining on tour as support later this month.
In other news, PAYDAY will make her US festival debut this October at Austin City Limits, playing both weekends on Saturday, October 2 and October 10th. She will also join AG Club on the road for their 2021 North American tour, confirmed to play Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn on September 26th, with other shows set for Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Santa Ana, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, before concluding in Oakland, California on October 24th. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit everyonelovespayday.com.
Earlier this year, SoundCloud named PAYDAY one of nine standout emerging artists to headline their new accelerator program, “First on SoundCloud”, focused on dedicated investment in co-creating each artist’s career milestones to help drive their long-term success. Since launching in
2018, emerging artists featured in “First On SoundCloud” include rising sensations Cuppy, Che
Lingo, Baby Rose, Grammy® Award nominee, Kehlani, and chart topper, Lil Tecca.
For more information, please visit firston.soundcloud.com.
PAYDAY spent most of her childhood traveling state-to-state with her family, wherever they could find work. Often an outsider at whatever school she found herself each month or year, PAYDAY grew increasingly angry at the world, eventually finding an escape in music and a reliable friend in a Nintendo DS and $14 dollar mic she purchased at Walmart. From 8-years-old, she immersed herself in poem and lyrics, raps and beats, eventually evolving into all things PAYDAY. “It’s crazy, I went from being the weird new kid with a southern accent, to the cool kid who knew how to rap and produce music.” Suddenly, the kids who once bullied her for being the weird outsider, all wanted to be her friend, and PAYDAY found her calling, spitting rhymes and lyrics in the school playground and producing music in her bedroom.
TRACKLISTING
Business
Yo Mama
Smoke Me Interlude
Vampire (feat. Danny Brown)
Buttercup
I’m Dead Now
Burger
Fast forward 2019, PAYDAY officially entered the scene and unintentionally amassed quite the cult following with the release of her debut single ‘Super Thicc,’ which soon prompted A&R’s and music blogs to come knocking. Inspired by everything from Tyler, The Creator, Lil Uzi, OutKast, and Kanye to Charlie XCX, Paramore and My Chemical Romance, PAYDAY is a welcomed and refreshing genre-defying voice for her generation. Having spent most of 2020 writing and recording music, PAYDAY is undoubtedly poised as one to watch and to break big in 2021.
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