ANoyd is the stage name of Dashorn Whitehead, an MC from Bloomfield, Connecticut. His delivery is direct, confident, and energetic, and his lyrics reflect on racial issues, relationship troubles, and other life struggles. His storytelling skills are clearly inspired by '90s rap icons such as Nas and OutKast, and his beats (often produced by RichBreed or Ty Nitty) range from trap, on early releases like 2015's Summer in Sinsinati, to breakbeat-driven boom-bap, as on the 2019 Statik Selektah collaboration Yuck!
Whitehead is the son of reggae artist Chuck Fenda. He began rappin...