Lou The Human

Shock value and a punk-inspired approach to hip-hop set rapper and producer Lou the Human apart from most other artists in late-2010s New York. Since building an underground following with self-released material, he put out the seemingly uncompromised album Painkiller Paradise (2019) through major-label Interscope. The Brooklyn-born Staten Island transplant began rapping while in fifth or sixth grade, but by the eighth grade he was growing bored, so he branched out into beatmaking. In true D.I.Y. fashion, he studied the music production software FL Studio before moving on t...