Swae Lee

The younger and melodic half of Southern hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, however, is quick to deny any

association to being two different people and instead opts for a more complex, manifold, but unified

version of himself. Nowhere does this ring truer than in Swae’s versatile music and sound that is

undeniably and utterly Swae. Born in Inglewood, California as Khalif Malik Ibn Shaman Brown, the singer

cites Texas as a focal point in his beginnings in music at the age of 11 or so, where he began to seriously

pursue his musical interests. Outside of school and familial extracurriculars, Swae would experiment with

production, recording software, and learn how to mix audio. Swae, has made a name for himself outside

of his duo work, showcasing himself as a force to be reckoned with both within and beyond the hip hop

world, with tracks such as 20x Platinum “Sunflower” with Post Malone, Diamond Certified “Unforgettable” with French Montana, showing off his singing chops and his

impressive list of writing credits including Beyoncé’s “Formation” and Travis Scott’s Diamond certified “Sicko Mode”.

Swae’s melodic repertoire, however, is not relegated exclusively to the r&b and hip-hop sphere as his

crooning can also take on ballad form and mesh into a more electronica background as well—a complex

Gemini in many ways.