NETTSPEND DROPS "who tf is u" VIDEO
18-year-old rap phenom and underground scene leader Nettspend drops the music video for "who tf is u". Watch HERE. It follows the release of his feverishly anticipated new album, early life crisis, a gloriously chaotic set of blistering sounds, brash lyrics, and magnetic charisma. Listen HERE. The 21-song project features collaborations with YoungBoy Never Broke Again and OsamaSon, and production by CXO , Rok (Playboi Carti, Future), and Cranes among others.
Embodying the album’s brazen spirit, “who tf is you” is gleefully confrontational in every way. Bit-crushed drum explosions and glittering splats of melody roil beneath Nettspend’s voice, which both blends with and pierces through the burbling digital chaos. He pours out an impressionistic slurry of brags and sneers, taking aim at critics and haters with lines like, “Can’t you see how long I'm lastin’? I don’t need no practice / Intercept this bat, come catch this.”
The “who tf is you” music video bursts with exactly the kind of freewheeling teenage mayhem that the track feels made for. Directed by Kai Cranmore (OsamaSon, RJ Pasin) and shot in the snowy woods of Nettspend’s home state of Virginia, the cinematic visual finds him with a female companion and some corpse-painted friends. They shoot off fireworks, throw snowballs, do donuts, set fires, and obliterate mailboxes with a spiked bat from the bed of a pickup truck.
early life crisis drops in the wake of Nettspend’s massive Milan Fashion Week debut — where he walked for Gucci and made headlines in Teen Vogue (“Nettspend Delayed His Album, but His Gucci Walk Will Tide You Over”), Vogue (“Demna’s Next Generation of Gucci It Kids”), and GQ (“The Internet Rap Boys Enter the House of Gucci”), not to mention landed mentions and photos in countless other outlets including The New York Times, W Magazine, and Complex.
Nettspend, early life crisis
1. you ready?
2. ce
3. pain talk ft. OsamaSon
4. crack
5. still standing
6. who tf is u
7. trap house 2016
8. masked up ft. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
9. stab
10. halftime
11. meet me in richmond
12. no sleep
13. <3 me
14. paris hilton
15. sick
16. cross em out
17. shades on
18. plan b
19. make it bleed
20. hey, hello
21. lil Bieber
Photo credit: Cian Moore
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ABOUT NETTSPEND
Over the past year, Nettspend has fed his followers with an anticipation-building drip of new material, including the gone too soon two-song pack (watch the “stressed” video), his grimy xaviersobased team-up “Impact,” and self-leaked tracks like “forever” and “HOPSCOTCH.” Before that, of course, came Nettspend’s debut mixtape, BAD ASS F*CKING KID, which led Pitchfork’s “Albums You Should Listen to Now,” picked up love from Stereogum, and won a rave review from The FADER, who wrote, “Nettspend's strongest traits are on clear display here: an ear for beats that can keep up with his manic flows, a melodic instinct that can suffuse even the most trite one-liners with moody pathos, and odd turns of phrase that poeticize boilerplate images and ideas [...] He sounds tortured and ambitious and ecstatic and delirious all at once.” Ranked among “the vanguard of underground rap” (Rolling Stone), Nettspend has been building a cult-like following since he was 16. Teaming with fellow visionaries like Cole Bennett, John Ross, and Eli Russell Linnetz, and producers like Kenny Beats, ss3bby, EvilGiane, OK, GOLDIN, and RiotUSA, he’s forging a legacy as an unpredictable, cross-cultural generational force. Outside of music, he’s made waves in fashion — walking for Miu Miu at Paris Fashion Week and performing at New York Fashion Week — and continues to ride for his hometown. He closed out 2025 with a food drive at Richmond’s Laurel Skatepark. Stay tuned for more Nettspend.
