Ramirez

Ramirez, a Latino-American rapper whose approach fuses striking wordplay with somber yet tuneful production, surfaced in the mid-2010s bearing a sound that draws on West Coast rap, cloud rap, and Southern trap. The San Francisco native first worked under the RVMIRXZ name while cultivating an aesthetic also shaped by horror and anime aesthetics; as part of Louisiana’s G59 Records he stood alongside the prolific New Orleans duo $uicideboy$. From the 2013 release Trillity onward he rolled out a series of wide-ranging mixtapes—Pharaohs in 2014, Latino Heat and Blood Diamonds in 2015, then Meet Me Where the River Turns Grey in 2016—while also contributing to assorted EPs and singles that paired him with peers such as $uicideboy$ on “G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S” and “G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S. I.I.,” Yung Gravy on “The Boys Are Back in Town,” Ghostemane on “Bermuda,” and additional collaborators. The 2017 projects World War and Grey Gorilla, followed by Blood Diamonds 2 in 2018, strengthened his standing in underground circles, yet it was the widely praised 2019 album Son of Serpentine, featuring appearances by Pouya and Zillakami of City Morgue, that lifted him toward broader attention. He sustained that visibility in 2020 through the singles “Voices in the Dark” and “Tales from the Guttah.”