Teeyago the Sadboi - Nelson Webster

While listening to MUSE, I heard the heavy, but harmonic voice of Teeyago, a pop rapper from Maryland, and I had to hear more. So far he’s accumulated a catalogue of four projects and many more singles. He’s got his skin in the game, dropping almost twice a year with relatively different sounds for each project. My favorite by far is Adonis Vernalis, playing host to a groovy, dense pop sound with trap elements. To his credit, his production has become darker and more gritty as he has grown. That is, until his latest, up-coming project, in which he has released four singles at the making of this article. 

This new sound brought to life by songs such as: Glass Hearts, Avenues, Here we Go Again, and finally, Sadboi, is an infusion of all of his previous work. It balances the upbeat and poppy with content that paints a picture of humility and pain. It serves a pleasant juxtaposition, while not sounding too dissonant. All of the cover art follows a theme of bubbly blue, I’d like to think the color is a visual cue of the ‘Sadboi’, though I don’t hear any Blues references in the music. This leads me to another trait of Teeyago that I appreciate, his aesthetic detail.

For each release, I can tell he puts effort into being consistent in the scope of each project. Every project follows an aesthetic sonically and visually and that is something that is lost in the streaming era, at least for artists on the come up. But, by far my favorite part about Teeyago’s music is the density of the production. He layers his instrumentals with little things from percussion, to background harmonies, to effects that really round out the tracks. 

In conclusion, Teeyago is an artist to be reckoned with off of his work ethic alone, not to mention his talent. I will be impatiently waiting for his full project to be released so I can hear the singles in full context of his vision. Until next time, signing off, Nelson Webster.