ZAI1K

One Liner: Auto-tuned rapping and singing with a viral hit on TikTok

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but rap and R&B

Home: Florida

Poster Position: 20
Weekend One Only.  Friday.

Thoughts:  Apparently this guy popped off on TikTok in January, with his spin on something called "WYD Now" by something called Sadie Jean.  This is when I feel really old.  An article I read states that: "The Viral moment occurred when Zai1k participated in Sadie Jean’s “WYD Now?” Open Verse Challenge. The Open Verse Challenge allows artists to recorded themselves performing their own verse next to Sadie Jean.  Zai1k currently has over 2.3 million likes on his Tiktok and with the iconic bar “Why you got that spoon in my face, back it up some,” it’s no surprise that he has everyone singing the catchy verse."  Really?  The spoon in my face line somehow caught the public's attention?

There honestly is not very much available online talking about the guy - no Wikipedia, no interviews with any big publications, and his Spotify bio is like 2 lines.  Grew up in Lauderhill, Florida, and started in music in 2020.  His bio literally says he delivers his lyrics with a melodic sound.  Ohhhh, really?  Amazing!  Why didn't anyone else in the history of music ever do that too? n I wish I could find out how to say his dumb-looking name.  ZAY-ONE-K?

All three of his most popular songs involve someone else, so it is hard to tell which voice is his, versus which one is KB Mike or Kakhar (but I can tell which one is Stacey Ryan on that one).  I'll give you the "WYD Now?" one just so you can hear the viral sensation.  3.6 million streams.

Oh man, hear that melodic sound?  And that "iconic bar" about the spoon?  WTF, man.  Nothing special there at all.  Here is his most streamed tune, with someone named Stacey Ryan, and I like the message in this one.  "Don't Text Me When You're Drunk."  11.7 million streams.

Pretty good, even though his verses are not the best part of the tune.  Although I definitely do not like watching that woman sing, either.

One day ago Rolling Loud festival posted his "full set," which starts in the middle of a track and lasts nine minutes?  The sound on the video is awful, but you can also see that there are like 300 people there.

No thanks!  Hope he has fun in Austin!