Biography
Smoky-voiced vocalist and songwriter Fousheé crafts stylish yet angsty songs about relationships that pull from R&B, folk, punk, and intimate indie electronica. The whispery, melancholy track “Deep End” surged past 100 million streams within months of going viral in 2020, after first circulating as an uncredited sample on social platforms. She has worked alongside Lil Wayne, James Blake, and Ravyn Lenae, and she co-wrote Steve Lacy’s chart-topping pop single “Bad Habit.” Her debut full-length, the genre-defying softCORE, reached listeners in 2022. Appearances on projects by Lil Yachty, Killer Mike, Lil Wayne, and additional artists followed in 2023, and she returned the next year with Pointy Heights, her more expansive second album issued on RCA.
Raised in New Jersey, Brittany Fousheé drew early motivation from her mother’s drumming in the all-female reggae group PEP. Bob Marley ranks among her strongest influences. As an adult she spent several years delivering her own alternative soul material throughout New York before moving to Los Angeles.
In early 2020 drill rapper Sleepy Hallow incorporated a sample Fousheé had placed in a 2018 royalty-free library, and the resulting track rapidly spread through social-media videos. That May she issued the Relative Motion EP containing three original songs, then, after the sampled “Deep End” itself appeared as a complete track in July 2020, she accumulated tens of millions of streams under her own name. The vulnerable single, delivered partly in song and partly in rap, became linked to the mass demonstrations against police violence and racism that followed George Floyd’s death. She soon signed with RCA, issued “single af,” and, in early 2021, released “gold fronts” featuring Lil Wayne. The EP time machine came next, spotlighting guest turns from Steve Lacy and Lil Yachty.
Fousheé joined Ravyn Lenae and Lacy on their 2022 albums. For the latter’s Gemini Rights she co-wrote and appeared on the bittersweet “Sunshine,” while also contributing to the number-one pop hit “Bad Habit.” Her own first album, softCORE, arrived that November and featured Lil Uzi Vert on the propulsive “Spend the Money.” Contributions to releases by Lil Yachty, Teezo Touchdown, Killer Mike, and Lil Wayne occupied her throughout 2023, by which point different versions of “Deep End” had surpassed half a billion streams. Momentum continued into 2024 with her featured role on Childish Gambino’s “Running Around,” followed quickly by her own “Still Around,” another collaboration with Lacy and “Sunshine” co-writer Karriem Riggins that served as the initial preview of her second major-label project. Pointy Heights, named for her grandfather’s property in Jamaica, appeared that September.
Raised in New Jersey, Brittany Fousheé drew early motivation from her mother’s drumming in the all-female reggae group PEP. Bob Marley ranks among her strongest influences. As an adult she spent several years delivering her own alternative soul material throughout New York before moving to Los Angeles.
In early 2020 drill rapper Sleepy Hallow incorporated a sample Fousheé had placed in a 2018 royalty-free library, and the resulting track rapidly spread through social-media videos. That May she issued the Relative Motion EP containing three original songs, then, after the sampled “Deep End” itself appeared as a complete track in July 2020, she accumulated tens of millions of streams under her own name. The vulnerable single, delivered partly in song and partly in rap, became linked to the mass demonstrations against police violence and racism that followed George Floyd’s death. She soon signed with RCA, issued “single af,” and, in early 2021, released “gold fronts” featuring Lil Wayne. The EP time machine came next, spotlighting guest turns from Steve Lacy and Lil Yachty.
Fousheé joined Ravyn Lenae and Lacy on their 2022 albums. For the latter’s Gemini Rights she co-wrote and appeared on the bittersweet “Sunshine,” while also contributing to the number-one pop hit “Bad Habit.” Her own first album, softCORE, arrived that November and featured Lil Uzi Vert on the propulsive “Spend the Money.” Contributions to releases by Lil Yachty, Teezo Touchdown, Killer Mike, and Lil Wayne occupied her throughout 2023, by which point different versions of “Deep End” had surpassed half a billion streams. Momentum continued into 2024 with her featured role on Childish Gambino’s “Running Around,” followed quickly by her own “Still Around,” another collaboration with Lacy and “Sunshine” co-writer Karriem Riggins that served as the initial preview of her second major-label project. Pointy Heights, named for her grandfather’s property in Jamaica, appeared that September.
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