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Denzel Rae Don Curry (born February 16, 1995) is an American rapper. Born and raised in
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, Curry started rapping while in the sixth grade and began working on his first
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, ''King Remembered Underground Tape 1991–1995'', in 2011, which was influenced by underground Florida rapper
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. The mixtape was later featured on SpaceGhostPurrp's
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, giving Curry attention in the local music scene and resulting in him joining the former's hip-hop collective Raider Klan. Curry left Raider Klan in 2013, releasing his debut studio album, '' Nostalgic 64'', in September of that year, while still in high school. He has since released three extended plays: '' 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'' in 2015, ''13'' in 2017, and ''Unlocked'' (a collaboration with Kenny Beats) in 2020, and four studio albums: '' Imperial'' in 2016, '' Ta13oo'' in 2018, '' Zuu'' in 2019, and '' Melt My Eyez See Your Future'' in 2022. ''Ta13oo'', ''Zuu'', and ''Melt My Eyez'' debuted at numbers 28, 32, and 51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, respectively, with ''Melt My Eyez'' returning at number 17 after the release of an extended edition. Two years later, Curry announced '' King of the Mischievous South, Vol. 2'' which released on July 19, 2024. All of Curry's projects have garnered significant critical acclaim. Reviewers most often praise his aggressive rapping style, energetic performance, lyrical abilities, and artistic versatility. He has been credited as one of the pioneers of the SoundCloud rap genre.


Early life

Denzel Rae Don Curry was born on February 16, 1995, in the Carol City neighborhood of
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. Curry started down an artist's path with early poetic ambitions in elementary school before he began rapping in the sixth grade. His time was spent at a local Boys & Girls Clubs of America chapter where he challenged others to rap battles. He attended Miami's Design and Architecture High School for two years before being expelled. Curry then attended Miami Carol City Senior High School, where he started working on ''Nostalgic 64'' while still attending class. In a 2018 interview with '' The Breakfast Club'', Curry disclosed that he was molested by an unnamed older man during his childhood.


Career


2011–2012: Career beginnings

On September 24, 2011, Curry released his first mixtape, titled ''King Remembered Underground Tape 1991–1995''. The whole project that Curry posted was later included on
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's page, which prompted the birth of Denzel's music career. Following the release of Curry's first mixtape, Curry became a member of SpaceGhostPurrp's hip hop group, Raider Klan. In 2012, he released his second mixtape, titled ''King of the Mischievous South Vol. 1 Underground Tape 1996'', which caught the attention of fellow American rapper Earl Sweatshirt and other members of
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. Curry's third mixtape, titled ''Strictly for My R.V.I.D.X.R.Z.'', was released after the death of Trayvon Martin, who also lived in Carol City and went to the same high school as Denzel Curry. His style of rap and the name of the record were heavily inspired by
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. In late 2012, Curry met his manager Mark Maturah, and under his guidance, released his first studio single, "Dark & Violent", featuring J. K. The Reaper and Nell, to
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. In 2011, a mixtape named "Curry Wuz Here" surfaced on
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, and the release date was claimed to be January 16, 2011.


2013–2014: ''Nostalgic 64''

The group Raider Klan was disbanded, which led to Curry deciding to embark on his solo rap career. On September 3, 2013, Curry released his debut full-length album, titled '' Nostalgic 64''. The album features
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s from JK the Reaper,
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, Mike G, Nell, Robb Bank$, Stephen A. Clark, and Yung Simmie, among others. In 2014, Curry was featured on Deniro Farrar's track, called "Bow Down" (included from Farrar's ''Rebirth'' EP) and Curry was featured on Dillon Cooper's track, called "Eyes of the World" (included from Cooper's ''X:XX'' mixtape). Curry himself has stated that he was heavily inspired by
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's record, Aquemini, saying he drew the cover for Nostalgic 64 while listening to the record. He also was inspired by Goodie Mob and CeeLo Green, and other southern music.


2015–2016: ''32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'' and ''Imperial''

On June 9, 2015, Curry released his first double EP, '' 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'', which contained his breakout single "
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". The song went viral, and was played over Bottle Flip videos among others. It has amassed over 200 million streams on Spotify and earned 65 million views on YouTube. His first release in 2016 was the single "Flying Nimbus". His second full-length album, titled '' Imperial'', was released on March 9, 2016, then re-released later on
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as the deluxe version on October 14, 2016. In June 2016, Curry appeared in ''XXL'' magazine as part of their 2016 Freshmen Class. As part of this appearance, Curry performed a 'freshman cypher' alongside Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, 21 Savage, and Kodak Black. As of December 2024, this cypher has received over 221 million
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views, by far the most for the XXL channel.


2017–2018: ''13'' and ''Ta13oo''

On May 13, 2017, Curry uploaded a track titled "Hate Government emo to his SoundCloud account. In the weeks that followed, he released two more demos for songs titled "Equalizer emo and "Zeltron 6 Billion" featuring
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. After these releases as well as a series of cryptic posts on social media (seemingly portraying another alter ego called Zeltron), he released an EP titled '' 13'' on June 25, 2017. All of the demo tracks were included on the EP as well as two other new songs. On August 18, 2017, Curry released another song called "Skywalker." Later that year, on September 22, a remastered version of ''32 Zel'' was released, including a remix of "Ultimate" featuring
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. Since he started releasing demos for songs on ''13'', Curry made several mentions of his third studio album titled, '' Ta13oo''. ''13'' serves as a sampler to ''Ta13oo'', and no release date for the album was announced. On February 28, 2018, he appeared on the song "Kristi," by artist ASAP Ferg, which also featured IDK. It was first performed live in Austin, TX on March 10, during their collaborative tour. On March 16, 2018, he uploaded the song "Uh Huh," once again featuring IDK, onto his official YouTube channel. On April 2, 2018, Curry released the lead single off of ''Ta13oo'' titled "
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" on
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's
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radio show. On May 24, 2018, Curry released the second single off the album titled, " Percs". Curry then released the third single titled, " Clout Cobain", on July 13, 2018, and announced that his album ''Ta13oo'', would be released in three acts: The first act, ''Light'', was released on July 25, followed by ''Gray'' on July 26, and ''Dark'' on July 27. Each previously released single represents one of the album's acts, as "Sumo" represents ''Light'', "Clout Cobain" represents ''Gray'', and "Percs" represents ''Dark'', which come together cohesively to form ''Ta13oo''.


2019–2021: ''Zuu'', ''13lood In + 13lood Out'', and ''Unlocked''

On February 14, 2019, Curry performed a cover of " Bulls on Parade" by
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on the Australian radio station
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as part of Like a Version, which was met with widespread acclaim. His cover went on to place 5th on that year's Triple J Hottest 100 countdown. On May 8, 2019, Curry released " Ricky", his first single since the release of ''Ta13oo''. The song is titled after his father, whom the song is inspired by. On May 22, 2019, Curry released a second single titled "Speedboat" and announced the release of his next album '' Zuu'' for May 31, 2019. On July 15, 2019, Curry made his television debut on ''
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'', performing a medley of "Ricky" and "Wish" from his album ''Zuu''. He also revealed that he had cut his signature dreadlocks. On July 24, 2019, Curry joined artists such as Germ, City Morgue,
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, Shoreline Mafia, Night Lovell, Pouya, and Turnstile on a nationwide tour titled "Grey Day Tour", which was created by the hip-hop duo $uicideboy$. The tour was completed almost a month later on August 23, 2019. On January 6, 2020, Curry released a project titled '' 13lood 1n + 13lood Out'', featuring fellow rappers Ghostemane, Xavier Wulf, ZillaKami and AK of The Underachievers. The project was initially announced in November 2018. On February 7, 2020, Curry released '' Unlocked,'' an EP collaboration with Kenny Beats. The release was accompanied with an animated short film. In August 2020, Curry was featured on the soundtrack to the '' Madden NFL 21'' game, on the song "Lemonade", with singer
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. In October 2020, Curry was featured on $NOT's track "Sangria". On March 5, 2021, Curry released ''Unlocked 1.5'', a remix of his previous collaboration with Kenny Beats. The remix album features new production from
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, The Alchemist, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Sango, Jay Versace, Godmode, and Charlie Heat, as well as new features from Smino, Joey Bada$$, and Benny the Butcher among others. In June 2021, Curry appeared on FX Network's ''The Choe Show'', hosted by David Choe. Curry was featured on the September 2021 song "Bleach", released on rapper ZillaKami's debut album, DOG BOY. Curry collaborated on the track "Dynasties and Dystopia" from the
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series '' Arcane'', alongside Gizzle and Bren Joy.


2022–2023: ''Melt My Eyez See Your Future''

On January 5, 2022, the official trailer for Curry's fifth studio album, titled '' Melt My Eyez See Your Future'', was uploaded to his YouTube channel. It was revealed that the album would contain guest appearances from artists such as
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, 6lack, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, J.I.D, and Thundercat, among others. Curry said the project would feature a new, more mature sound, different from his previous works: "Y'all are not going to hear the same type of Denzel anymore." On January 24, a single titled "Walkin", along with a
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-inspired music video directed by Adrian Villagomez, was released. Curry also said the album "is made up of everything that I couldn't ncludeon '' Ta13oo'' or '' Imperial'' because I was going through depression ndanger issues", and would take inspiration from traditional hip-hop,
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, trap,
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, and
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. The same day, a North American and European tour promoting the album (with guest acts Kenny Mason, Mike Dimes, Redveil, and PlayThatBoiZay) was announced. On February 24, Curry released another single from the upcoming album, "Zatoichi" featuring Slowthai. It was accompanied by a music video also directed by Adrian Villagomez. On March 18, Curry announced the album would be released on March 25. On March 21, a third single, "Troubles" featuring T-Pain, was released along with a music video. The album was released on March 25, 2022. It debuted at number 51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, and at number 23 on the ''Billboard''
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chart. Curry recorded a song featuring rapper
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, "1st Quarter", as a contribution to
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's "collection of exclusively commissioned new songs from Black creatives", titled '' Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs''. He commented: "It's an accomplishment to make it through the first quarter of my life. Especially as a Black man in America". Curry's song featuring PlayThatBoiZay, "Let It All Hang Out", was included in ''Elvis''—a biographical movie about
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that premiered in June 2022—as well as on the movie's soundtrack album. On June 24, 2022, a collaboration between Dot da Genius,
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, Curry, and
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, titled " Talk About Me", was released, along with a music video directed by Cole Bennett. On June 29, 2022, Curry performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. On July 21, he performed "Walkin" on ''
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''. On September 30, 2022, Curry released Melt My Eyez See Your Future (The Extended Edition). The album features reimagined versions of songs from the original album with live instrumentation performed by the Cold Blooded Soul Band, which performed with Curry on his NPR Tiny Desk Concert and ''The Tonight Show'' performance. On May 5, 2023, Curry released his live project ''Live At Electric Lady,'' which featured new versions of ''Melt My Eyez'' songs and a rendition of
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's "Didn't Cha Know" with Bilal.


2024–present: ''King of the Mischievous South, Vol. 2''

In May 2024, Curry announced a new project by debuting a photo of cassette tape on his social media. In June, Curry announced the project was titled ''King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2'' and debuted the lead single "Hot One" featuring TiaCorine & ASAP Ferg. The album is a sequel to Curry's third mixtape ''King of the Mischievous South Vol. 1 Underground Tape 1996'' (2012) and was released on July 19, 2024. The song "Black Flag Freestyle" was subsequently released on June 21, 2024, as the second single. On October 30, Curry announced the mixtape would be re-released on November 15 as an album simply titled ''King of the Mischievous South'' with five additional tracks. He also released the single "Still in the Paint" featuring Lazer Dim 700 and Bktherula that day. On November 14, he released another single, "Got Me Geeked". On November 19, he announced the Mischievous South Tour with guests Kenny Mason, 454, and Clip, planned for 2025.


Artistry

Curry's music is influenced by a variety of artists, genres, and art forms. Some of his greatest sources of inspiration are
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,
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, and
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. Some musicians who have been credited with inspiring Curry include MF Doom, André 3000, DMX,
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,
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,
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, and
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, as well as
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in general. Curry is best known for his aggressive, raw sound, "gritty" lyricism, and high-energy music, but also praised for his versatility. He has been acknowledged as a figure who "helped pioneer" SoundCloud rap and called "an artist who pushes the boundaries of ip hop.


Personal life

On February 27, 2014, Curry's brother, Treon "Tree" Johnson, died as a result of complications after being tased by the police in
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. Officers responded to an emergency call made by a man claiming that Johnson was beating two dogs with a metal pipe. Officers then employed physical force,
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, and a taser in an attempt to restrain Johnson. He succumbed to his wounds, and he ultimately died after being transported to
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. His family argued that the incident was a case of
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. Curry has spoken about Johnson's death and police brutality in interviews and in his music. One example of this is the lyric "Cops killing' blacks when the whites do the most," in his song "The Last." He has also inculcated upon this theme in his cover of " Bulls on Parade" by
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. In January 2021, Curry discovered that he is related to St. Louis rapper Smino through the discovery of a shared uncle. In 2022, Curry signed onto the Musicians For Palestine pledge, refusing to perform in
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following the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis. In November 2023, Curry signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in the
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and an end to the
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.


Discography

Studio albums * '' Nostalgic 64'' (2013) * '' Imperial'' (2016) * '' Ta13oo'' (2018) * '' Zuu'' (2019) * '' Melt My Eyez See Your Future'' (2022) * King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 (2024)


Tours


Headlining

* Bow Down Tour with Deniro Farrar (2014) * 2055: The U.L.T Experience with SDotBrady, J. K. The Reaper and Allan Kingdom (2015) * Black Metal Terrorist Tour with
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(2016) * * Ta13oo Tour (2018) * Melt My Eyez Tour (2022) *Greyday (2024) *Mischievous South Tour (2025)


Supporting

* Joey Bada$$ – World Domination Tour (2015) * Illegal Civilization – Illegal Civ Cinema Tour with Show Me the Body,
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(2017) *
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Run the World Tour (2017) * A$AP Ferg – Mad Man Tour (2018) * $uicideboy$ – GreyDay Tour (2019) *
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When We All Fall Asleep Tour (2019) *
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To The Moon Tour (2022)


References


External links

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