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September 26, 2025 – Today, rising rap world-builder Yakiyn returns with the swaggering, style-hopping single “SPREAD LIKE BUTTA.” The funky cut offers another new angle on the multi-faceted Dallas artist quickly making a name for himself with a body of work powered by his infectious energy and chaotic creativity. Listen HERE and watch the official music video HERE.
Produced by Sader (Doechii, Tay Money), Kesh (Don Tolliver, Travis Scott), and New Reign (BashfortheWorld), “SPREAD LIKE BUTTA” rides out on a powerfully minimal beat that gives Yakiyn room to cook. Over rubbery keys, bubbling bass, and a siren-like squelch, he lets loose a series of braggadocious punchlines and proclamations while sliding between raw raps and an Auto-Tuned coo: “I don’t do the chit-chat / I run through some racks / I keep it at that.”
DIY to his core, Yakiyn also recently shared the dark dance-rap cut “Feel So Alive,” featuring FELIX! of Paris Texas, direct to his fans, picking up SoundCloud Track of the Daynod in the process. His last official single dropped at the top of September — the hypnotic flex-fest “Put Dem Boys to Sleep,” which came with a striking video co-directed by Yakiyn with Cordell Jomha (Don Toliver, Doechii) and featuring a cameo from Leon Bridges, among others. That clip ends with a snippet of yet another recent SoundCloud-exclusive heater, “TOP TIER.”
All of that came in the wake of Yakiyn’s explosive summer single “BACKBOARD”featuring Kal Banx, best known as TDE’s hit-making in-house producer (Yakiyn also appears on Kal’s solo album RHODA). That track’s intensity and shout-along hook inspired Dallas Observer to call the song “something you would hear in between NBA commercial breaks after a monstrous dunk.” Meanwhile, Our Generation Music noted, “Yakiyn shows why he’s an up-and-comer to watch.”
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 Rashadand Luke Bar$, which recently surpassed 1 million streams on Spotify. With a distinctive fashion sense, he’s also been tapped to model in campaigns for TDE and Yeezy.
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. |
