Ralan Styles

A confident, streetwise, 2020s Tallahassee, Florida peer of the more melancholic and insular Lil Goat, prolific rapper Ralan Styles blends melodic trap and contemporary R&B. Born Michael Andre Robinson in 2003, in Florida's state capital, he had a challenging early life, with his family intermittently staying in homeless shelters. Growing up, XXXTentacion was among his favorite rappers, but he also admired the ability of mainstream artists like One Direction and BTS to fuse pop and R&B. In late 2019, at 16, he began to make his own music, one of his earliest recordings tracks...