Summrs

Hailing from Louisiana, the rapper Summrs is viewed as an originator of pluggnb, a style that merges plugg—an atmospheric, subdued form of trap—with melodic vocals shaped by Auto-Tune. Through membership in the since-disbanded Slayworld collective alongside figures such as Autumn! and Yeat, he shaped the pluggnb aesthetic via initial mixtapes including the All Summr series issued in 2017. While later projects such as 2022’s Fallen Raven frequently adopted a tougher, more commercial trap direction, the 2023 release Stuck in My Ways, which appeared on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, largely returned to atmospheric production. His steady productivity has persisted through additional projects like 2024’s B4DARAVEN.

Born Deante Adam Johnson in Lafayette, Louisiana, Summrs first surfaced with recordings near 2016. Three volumes of the All Summr series arrived in 2017, accompanied by nearly a dozen further releases that included the 2 Seasons EPs recorded with fellow Slayworld member Autumn!. Greater recognition arrived with 2018 projects such as Devotion, Revived, and two Bellworld volumes, at a time when the pluggnb movement was building momentum by merging cloud rap atmospherics with assertive, Auto-Tune-saturated rapping. World Against Me and Isolated followed in 2019.

After remaining largely inactive during 2020, Summrs reemerged in 2021 with Intoxicated and two widely noted works: the EP What We Have and the full-length Nothing More Nothing Less. Fallen Raven, marked by a harder tone than was typical for him, appeared in 2022. Early the next year he joined Trippie Redd for the track “Biggest Bird.” Issued the same year by 10K Projects, Stuck in My Ways—more rooted in the pluggnb approach than its predecessor—reached number 13 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. Ghost and What We Didn’t Have arrived later that year, and B4DARAVEN followed in 2024.