South Carolina rapper Dro Kenji weaves together the immediacy of Internet-bred rap with the atmospheric intensity of music he listened to while growing up like Radiohead and XXXTentacion. Kenji was still in high school when he began releasing his original songs online, and he soon was taken under the wing of the collective of producers and artists known as Internet Money, who helped him realize his debut studio album, 2021's Eat Your Heart Out. Other releases, like 2022's With or Without You, followed.
Kenji grew up in the sleepy town of Summerville, South Carolina. He began ...