Ron Suno

Bronx native Ron Suno first gained notice as a drill rapper through the 2019 release “Pinocchio,” yet he had already built a parallel career as a comedian and social-media personality whose viral challenges repeatedly swept online platforms. Born Keron Foriest and raised in Co-op City in the northeast section of the Bronx, he began crafting raw, low-budget drill tracks at age thirteen—material such as “Murder” and “Water,” even though the style was more commonly linked to Brooklyn at the time. His recorded debut arrived on the track “Water,” shared with Siri Dinero. Two years afterward he shifted focus toward comedy sketches, and by 2017 the Weave Challenge alone had drawn more than five hundred thousand followers.

He returned to music in 2019 with the self-released New Boss EP on his newly established SBL imprint, then dropped the late-year singles “Ball” and “Flows.” The November 2019 single “Pinocchio,” a pop-tinged cut, accumulated more than ten million streams inside nine months and set the stage for the June 2020 project Swag Like Mike—an EP nodding to Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Mike Tyson that also housed “Spider-Man” and “Nunchucks.” Throughout this period Suno kept uploading comedic content but maintained a deliberate separation between those videos and his music output.

By mid-2020 he was under the management of Avery MsArtistry and had surpassed one million followers on a single platform, largely thanks to his comedy work. September brought a guest spot on DJ Drewski’s “MOP,” followed in October by the standalone single “Netflix.” Sandwiched between those releases was “Wraith,” a collaboration with DDG that previewed the July 2021 album Jokes Up. That project, whose title signaled a further move away from humor, included appearances by Sheff G, Fetty Wap, and Dusty Locane.

Additional non-album collaborations arrived late in 2021 and early 2022 alongside BigKayBreezy, PashaPG, Rah Swish, Cookiee Kawaii, and Badda TD. In June 2022 Suno issued a new version of “What They Gon Say” featuring Rowdy Rebel—an update of a track first dropped the previous winter. Both that cut and “Shoes,” recorded with Dusty Locane and Rah Swish, landed on the August release Suno Mode. The following month he joined Dusty Locane, Rah Swish, and OnPointLikeOP for the fully collaborative 95MM Records project Say Dat. Suno closed the year with the New Jersey rapper Torchhh on the track “2.5.”