| September 9, 2025 – Today, rising rap world-builder Yakiyn drops the booming new single “Put Dem Boys to Sleep.” The hypnotic flex-fest of a track puts the Texas multihyphenate’s gift for immersive music on full display, arriving alongside a music video co-directed by Yakiyn with Cordell Jomha(Don Toliver, Doechii), shot in Dallas and featuring an onscreen cameo from Leon Bridges, among others. Listen HERE and watch the black and white visual HERE.
With a syrup-thick beat and pitched-down vocals, “Put Dem Boys to Sleep” oozes out of the gate before enveloping everything in its path. Against an artful, disorienting backdrop of ad libs and edits, Yakiyn delivers quotable bars with a sticky Southern drawl: “Bankroll on me, look like I got thigh pads / Yakiyn, he so damn fly, ‘Boy, where’d you buy that?’ / Money counter hitting, dawg, rolling like some hi hats.” The track is produced by Trey Kams (Pink Siifu, Kal Banx).
The “Put Dem Boys to Sleep” video brings Yakiyn’s cool and confidence to life, moving fluidly from scene to scene in his hometown. At one point, he’s stuffing hundos behind his Texas belt buckle; at another, he’s rapping on a corner while Bridges dances behind him. We move between hotel rooms and barber shops, from the base of a water tower to a gas station — each stop turning into a down home, high-class celebration of wealth, women, and self-expression.
The clip ends with a snippet of another Yakiyn heater, “TOP TIER,” which he shared direct to fans in the wake of his explosive June single “BACKBOARD”featuring Kal Banx, best known as TDE’s hit-making in-house producer (Yakiyn also appears on his debut solo album RHODA.) That track’s intense energy and shout-along hook inspired Dallas Observer to call it “something you would hear in between NBA commercial breaks after a monstrous dunk.” Our Generation Music noted, “Yakiyn shows why he’s an up-and-comer to watch with his new single.”
It’s all part of a flurry of activity around the emerging artist who, in the past year, has toured with style-shifting hip-hop auteur Isaiah Rashad and appeared in Doechii’s Denial Is a River sitcom skits alongside Earl Sweatshirt, Teezo Touchdown, and Zack Fox. In 2024, Yakiyn also released his SAD BOI EP, showing staggering range across just four tracks including “YEA”featuring Rashad and Luke Bar$, which recently surpassed 1 million streams on Spotify.
All of this is just the start, however, for an artist whose ambitions go well beyond music alone. Follow along as Yakiyn unveils his holistic vision little by little in the coming weeks and months. |
