Biography
Jessica Smyth crafts whispery, introspective R&B under the Biig Piig name, folding jazz, rap, and pop touches into a moody, nocturnal haze. After moving from open-mic ukulele performances to early praise by Billie Eilish, she joined RCA Records and issued the 2021 project The Sky Is Bleeding along with the 2023 release Bubblegum before unveiling her first full-length album, 11:11, in early 2025.
Born in Cork, Ireland in 1998, Smyth passed her childhood in Spain before relocating with her family to West London at age 14, where she took up songwriting on ukulele. By 17 she had joined the NiNE8 Collective and started shaping her own material around spare R&B grooves and verses delivered in both sung and rapped styles. Around 2016 she began posting tracks as Biig Piig, then drew widespread notice in 2017 with “Vice City,” a hazy, jazz-inflected cut that mixed rapped sections, a melodic chorus, and moments of scatting; the song accumulated millions of streams and paved the way for additional singles.
She followed with the five-track EP Big Fan of the Sesh, Vol. 1 in 2018 and the second installment, A World Without Snooze, Vol. 2, the next year; both leaned on laid-back hip-hop beats and foregrounded her rap-focused approach. Later in 2019 she signed with RCA and released her third EP, No Place for Patience, Vol. 3. Several singles surfaced in 2020, after which the sharper, more pop-oriented The Sky Is Bleeding appeared in 2021. The 2022 tracks “FUN,” “Kerosene,” and “This Is What They Mean” preceded the 2023 mixtape Bubblegum, which featured Deb Never on “Picking Up.” The following year Smyth entered the studio with producer Zach Nahome, known for work with Olivia Dean and PinkPantheress, to record her debut album. The dreamy, low-key single “4AM” surfaced that September, trailed by “Decimal” and “Favourite Girl,” and 11:11 arrived in early 2025.
Born in Cork, Ireland in 1998, Smyth passed her childhood in Spain before relocating with her family to West London at age 14, where she took up songwriting on ukulele. By 17 she had joined the NiNE8 Collective and started shaping her own material around spare R&B grooves and verses delivered in both sung and rapped styles. Around 2016 she began posting tracks as Biig Piig, then drew widespread notice in 2017 with “Vice City,” a hazy, jazz-inflected cut that mixed rapped sections, a melodic chorus, and moments of scatting; the song accumulated millions of streams and paved the way for additional singles.
She followed with the five-track EP Big Fan of the Sesh, Vol. 1 in 2018 and the second installment, A World Without Snooze, Vol. 2, the next year; both leaned on laid-back hip-hop beats and foregrounded her rap-focused approach. Later in 2019 she signed with RCA and released her third EP, No Place for Patience, Vol. 3. Several singles surfaced in 2020, after which the sharper, more pop-oriented The Sky Is Bleeding appeared in 2021. The 2022 tracks “FUN,” “Kerosene,” and “This Is What They Mean” preceded the 2023 mixtape Bubblegum, which featured Deb Never on “Picking Up.” The following year Smyth entered the studio with producer Zach Nahome, known for work with Olivia Dean and PinkPantheress, to record her debut album. The dreamy, low-key single “4AM” surfaced that September, trailed by “Decimal” and “Favourite Girl,” and 11:11 arrived in early 2025.
Albums
11:11
2025
Bubblegum
2023
The Sky Is Bleeding
2021
Oh No / Liahr
2020
Don't Turn Around
2020
No Place for Patience, Vol. 3
2019
Roses and Gold
2019
A World Without Snooze, Vol. 2
2019
Big Fan of the Sesh, Vol. 1
2018
Singles
