YGTUT

YGTUT established himself within rap by championing his Chattanooga origins, arriving in the early 2010s with a relaxed delivery shaped by Southern traditions. Together with Isaiah Rashad he launched the local creative collective TheHouse, devoting his formative period to joint efforts with area artists alongside solo releases that included the 2015 mixtape Preacher’s Son and the 2022 album In My Head.

Born Kevin Adams Jr. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to a preacher father and a gospel-singer mother, the artist mastered multiple instruments before taking up rap in his early teens. He connected with Isaiah Rashad at university in 2010; the pair established TheHouse and left school to concentrate on music. Adams began issuing tracks in the early 2010s, among them the singles “2 Milli” and “Smoke Break,” while expanding the collective. Subsequent releases “Players in the South” and “Live from Chattanooga” gained traction online and paved the way for his debut mixtape Preacher’s Son, a project that spotlighted fellow TheHouse members Isaiah Rashad, Swayyvo, and Ktoven while merging his unhurried style with the heritage of Southern rap.

Throughout the latter half of the 2010s Adams remained active with TheHouse, contributing to the group’s Four Two Three EP, issuing joint singles “Trill Dreams” and “Long Day,” and scoring his biggest success to that point on the Zay collaboration “G35.” Solo output resumed with the 2019 I.O.U. EP and continued into the early 2020s via the singles “Bootleggers” and “Chattanooga Vendetta,” setting the stage for the 2021 rollout of debut album In My Head. After four advance singles, a TheHouse mixtape titled The Set, and a guest spot on Rashad’s The House Is Burning, the project appeared in 2022 on Same Plate/Sony. The long-awaited full-length emphasized extensive input from TheHouse while extending the ambitious lyricism and Southern rap textures that defined his strongest material.