February 28, 2025 — (Los Angeles, CA) — Today, as he careens toward the second leg of his news-making, headlining INVERT TOUR, teenage rap phenom Nettspend shares the music video for “Tommy,” a fan favorite from his buzzing debut mixtape, BAD ASS F*CKING KID. Watch HERE. Listen to the project HERE. And get tickets to his tour, with Xaviersobased opening, HERE.
Produced by Rokonthetrack, and Warren Hunter, “Tommy” hits the listener with squelching synth, bass-blown drums, and cascades of digital tones.
The accompanying video finds Nettspend moving between a cavernous industrial space and dank claustrophobic tunnels, dramatic white light cutting through the shadows as he rages out in all black, steel studs shining and blond hair flying. The clip shows the same sort of command that he’s demonstrated live while lighting up mosh pits in major cities across North America.
Ranked among “Gen-Z’s most promising class of musical innovators” (FADER) and “the vanguard of underground rap” (Rolling Stone), Nettspend dropped his long-awaited BAD ASS F*CKING KID on December 6, then hit the road that night. His New York stop inspired an i-D photoshoot of his famously devoted fans, complete with footage of the surging crowd and Nettspend in rockstar mode. Complex highlighted an appearance by Pinkpantheress in L.A. and interviewed kids LIVE FROM THE PIT in NYC. And MTV vet John Norris spoke with the star backstage for Interview Magazine, praising his music as “carefree, exhilarating, and made for mosh pits.”
The Richmond, VA, artist had steadily been captivating fans across the internet with singles like October’s “F*CK SWAG” — which came with a Cole Bennett-directed video HERE – while serving up an endless stream of collabs with peers like Wegonbeokay and Xaviersobased. BAD ASS F*CKING KIDwas an all-new set highlighting his signature mix of distorted beats and woozy rap, featuring production by Kenny Beats, EvilGiane, OK, Reklus1ve, Bobby Raps, Carter, and more.
BAD ASS F*CKING KID led Pitchfork’s “Albums You Should Listen to Now,” which praised “his narcotized mumbles and ad-libs [set] to dizzy production.” Stereogum shouted out the Grimes-sampling “Skipping Class,” while others praised “Beach leak” with its Jersey club beat. And FADER reviewed, raving that, “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.”
As far as his fervent online following has confirmed, Nettspend’s first song hit SoundCloud in late 2022 — but he
made his entrance the next year with the fittingly titled KickdoorEP before landing “Shine N Peace” on No Bells’ “Best Internet Rap 2023” and The New York Times’ “Best Songs of 2023” roundups. The Times also placed Nettspend on their list of “7 Artists Shaping theSound of 2024.” Last year, his summer Let’s Create Art Tour inspired THE FACE to report that, “The 17-year-old, who looks like a fresh-faced Kurt Cobain, instigated massive mosh pits at his debut London show […] and had sweat-drenched fans mobbing the merch stall.” Vulture called his 2024 Rolling Loud California appearance “one of the most hyped sets of the weekend.” Nettspend now returns to that same festival on March 16. Full INVERT TOUR itinerary below.
