Mario Judah

For a few wild months in 2020, Mario Judah hijacked the rap game with the force of a cartoon supervillain. He first crashed the internet with "Die Very Rough," a track that felt less like trap and more like a WWE entrance theme for a final boss—all booming 808s, guttural howls, and a vibrato that shook the whole SoundCloud scene. His true audacity surfaced when, frustrated with Playboi Carti's delays, he simply decided to record his own version of Whole Lotta Red. Tracks like "Bih Yah" proved he could mimic Carti's baby-voice flow to uncanny perfection before snapping back into his own rock-opera rage. It was a singular, short-lived reign, a spectacular display of creative will from an artist who decided to just make the moment happen himself.