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Run Me 2:380:00/2:38
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Warning Shot 1:330:00/1:33
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Half 3:020:00/3:02
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Body 2:180:00/2:18
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101 Freestyle 3:310:00/3:31
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Flight 3:320:00/3:32
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Drip Off Tap 3:330:00/3:33
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Lil Bitty 3:200:00/3:20
“ If you’ve got me singing your song by the end of the track, you’ve done what you’re trying to do as an artist. ” - KayvanMD-Director of A&R at Genius Distro
ABOUT UENO:
IAmUENO
Until.Everything.Numbs.over
There’s a version of I.Am.Ueno’s story that starts with Little Rock, Arkansas — the heat, the culture, the specific kind of hunger a city that size produces in someone who was always meant for more. But the real story starts earlier than geography. It starts with music being the one language that never needed translation. Before she had the words for what she was doing, she was doing it.
She carried music with her when she left home — bittersweet and hungry, trading the familiar for something bigger than she could fully name. That departure wasn’t just a move. It was a reckoning: with identity, with roots, with what it means to love a place and still need to outgrow it. That tension lives inside every record she makes, and it’s what makes the music feel real in a way that is increasingly rare.
Her sound defies easy categories: trap instincts, experimental nerve, and ghetto tech rhythm, filtered through a voice that is simultaneously raw and precise. Think Doechii’s creativity, Little Simz’s precision, Doja Cat’s range. Now grow it in Arkansas and season it in L.A. That is I.Am.Ueno
She has earned her credibility the unglamorous way: stages, not shortcuts. Performed at SXSW. Placed Top 20 in the Coast to Coast rap competition. The resumé is real — but what stays with people long after the show is something harder to quantify. A feeling. A frequency.
Her debut project Ego Trip is out now. Lead single “Run Me” earned an immediate co-sign from KayvanMD, Director of A&R at Genius Distro, who said on a recent livestream: “If you’ve got me singing your song by the end of the track, you’ve done what you’re trying to do as an artist.”
As a queer woman who has moved through spaces that weren’t always built for her, she makes music that reflects exactly that: honest, hard, and alive in ways most rap doesn’t allow itself to be. Her community recognizes themselves in it — and that recognition is part of what the music is for.
She describes her music as a mood mining drug — and the name says everything else. Until. Everything. Numbs. Over. Not nihilism. Not escapism. Something more honest than both: the quiet relief of a sound that finally matches what you have been carrying.
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