Yung Bae

Producer Dallas Cotton records as Yung Bae, embracing future funk—a buoyant vaporwave derivative that playfully reshapes samples drawn from post-disco funk and Japanese city pop. His first release, the 2014 album Bae, was succeeded by four further numbered Bae projects, the standalone LP Skyscraper Anonymous, and various singles. Since joining Arista in 2019, he has issued crossover-leaning collaborations such as “Bad Boy” and “Revolving.” That same label, during the early 1980s, regularly supplied the dancefloor-oriented R&B that Yung Bae routinely references. His first full-length for the imprint, the guest-laden Groove Continental: Side A, surfaced in 2022.

A Portland native now living in Los Angeles, Cotton launched the Yung Bae moniker in 2014 and soon delivered the initial four Bae volumes—Bae, Bae2, BA3, and B4E—through his own Future of Funk imprint. Skyscraper Anonymous appeared between the third and fourth of those installments. After Bae 5 arrived in 2019, he signed with Arista and achieved wider visibility via “Bad Boy,” whose 2020 remixes and alternate editions included a version featuring Wiz Khalifa. Over the ensuing years he continued teaming with prominent vocalists and rappers, enlisting Marc E. Bassy for “Revolving” and AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno for “Disco Body Parts,” while also co-producing kenzie’s “Donuts” and Mike Posner’s “Momma Always Told Me.” Groove Continental: Side A, released in 2022, showcased additional guests including Channel Tres, EARTHGANG, and Jon Batiste.