The Sound of Underground

Pg 1 - Black Kray/sickboyrari

Pg 2 - Haunted mound

Pg 3 - Jewelxxet, 2Famous, Acid Souljah

Pg 4 - Style and Sound/guest content

Pg 5 - Covers

Pg 6 - Back Cover / Adverstisment

BLACK KRAY

Rari Oneal (born February 23, 1994), better known by his stage name Black Kray (aka SickboyRari), is an American rapper, producer, film director, and the founding member of the collective Goth Money Records. Kray is from Richmond, Virginia, in a place he calls the “Durt Road”, and is often in Los Angeles. Kray began rapping in his teenage years, meeting his future Goth Money Records members via the internet in roughly 2012. He has his own extensive solo discography separate from Goth Money, however. Kray is also a frequent collaborator, creating tracks with artists/producers such as SpaceGhostPurrp, CHXPO, Working On Dying, Bladee and many more.

Kray is one of the most unique artists born from the internet rap culture, drawing heavy influence from artists such as Lil B. His mannerisms and style made him a pioneer in the cloud rap subgenre, and has also been at the forefront of the tread subgenre. His signature delivery is often very slurred or nearly unintelligible, sometimes reaching a sing-song tone. Black Kray is a huge figure in the early underground scene, and has influenced countless modern rappers, though has only been outshined by his influencers and hasnt been in the spotlight. Kray definitley deserves his contribution credit and should be seen more for his cultural Significance

Rari has made music under 2 aliases, “Black Kray” and “SickboyRari.” Under the Black Kray name he has dropped 14 tapes since 2012 and many more singles. Under the SickboyRari name he has dropped 5 tapes and many singles too.

HAUNTED MOUND

Sematary (born December 22nd 2000) is a horrorcore and trap artist from California, USA. He’s also known as DJ SORROW, Sematary Grave Man and Grave Man. Sematary started his music career with his friend at the time, Ghost Mountain, releasing their debut mixtape in August of 2019, Grave House and three months later, a solo release from Sematary, Rainbow Bridge. He gained popularity on sites like SoundCloud and Tumblr in recent years - frequently collaborating with Ghost Mountain, releasing two collaborative mixtapes, Grave House & Hundred Acre Wrist Hosted By DJ Sorrow and another two solo sequels to Rainbow Bridge; Rainbow Bridge 2 and Rainbow Bridge 3. The latter garnered widespread positive acclaim from critics.

Sematary also began to grow the Haunted Mound collective that he and Ghost Mountain had founded, recruiting several other artists such Buckshot, Hackle, Turnabout, Snuffer and producers such as Oscar18 and Gonerville. In mid2021, Ghost Mountain left the group, due to having different focuses and a lack of passion for the music. His fourth mixtape Screaming Forest was released in late 2021, with features from fellow Haunted Mound members Buckshot and Hackle. In 2023, Sematary released his latest mixtape titled “Butcher House” on January 13th, with features from Haunted Mound members Buckshot, Hackle, and Turnabout, along with cloud rap artist Black Kray AKA Sickboyrari.

JEWELXXET

Jewelxxet is an underground soundcloud rap group consisting of a genre called Sigilkore. Sigilkore is a rap music subgenre created in summer 2020 on SoundCloud. Visually, it implements a maximalistic use of sigils (occult symbols) and other references to occult worshiping, videogame and anime references, and elements from both recent and 2000s subcultures. Musically, It derives from the cloud rap subgenre led by Playboy Carti and is heavily influenced by hyperpop. Most of the sigilkore aesthetic can be found in its song or album covers. These covers tend to have an anime or videogame character. In numerous occasions, these are casting spells. These covers also tend to be maximalistic by implementing many decorations, which can be jewels, crosses, stars, flowers and lots of symbols, primarily sigils. Some covers include skulls, cemeteries, haunted houses, tombstones, mythical creatures (usually witches, demons and vampires), bloodstains and fire, associated with hell.

2FAMOUS

Octi 18-Year-old Rapper & Producer from Iceland & Norway. Octi has been making music since around 2017 under multiple aliases, he is part of the collective 2famous alongside members Wintercastle (euro) and Pistolero2k. Their sound derives from the 2015 chief keef glo type style if it was a lot more amped up and more blown out with the bass. Octi himself has put out

Acid Souljah is an American underground rapper from Houston, Texas that is best known for making EvilPlugg, HexD, Drill, Bop, and Trap music. He is also the founder and CEO of the SoEvilBoyz music collective. His sound consists of fast and chopped music, taking inspiration from older Lil B projects. He’s dropped 9 mixtapes since 2020, and has put out even more singles in his short time. His consistansy has allowed his fanbase to grow fast and he is still e

Many underground rappers use their album covers very effectively. They use eye-catching and abstract colors, and often look unusual to other covers. The covers often match how the album is and sounds.