Four Sight: How OsamaSon is Reshaping the Rap Underground
OsamaSon is one of the younger rappers challenging the status quo. We caught up with the South Carolina artist shortly after he dropped 'Jump Out.'
This feature is from Complex Magazine Issue No. 2 - Spring 2025 (The Innovation Issue), which is available now for pre-order on Complex Shop.
Dark rooms, warm chocolate cookies, Domino's pizza, and horror movies—this is the environment rapper OsamaSon likes to work in.
"Honestly, I don't like people watching me while I record. So when the lights are off, I feel like you can’t see me on some shit. I feel way more comfortable," OsamaSon tells Complex. "I just record for hours on hours."
This mode of creation explains some of the titles of his tracks—e.g., “ik what you did last summer”—and the often static, dissonant nature of his music. In just two years, the 21-year-old rapper, originally from Goose Creek, South Carolina, has become one of the most exciting voices in the noisy, rage-fueled, Playboi Carti-inspired underground scene that evolved from the SoundCloud era of the mid-2010s.
On Jump Out, the follow-up to his cult-classic project Flex Musix, production from underground maestro ok expands on the gritty, frenzied sound in subtle ways—adding a touch of brightness and a level of immersion to the chaotic, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach that OsamaSon favors.
“I didn’t care about mixing as much back then. It was just a loud bass thing,” OsamaSon says. “But now, I feel like you can feel everything—the lyrics, the melodies, the bass. You feel it as a whole, instead of just feeling it for one thing.”
This growth is a gift to his dedicated but sometimes frustrating fanbase, who won’t stop leaking his shit—someone even leaked a staggering 400 songs in one brazen incident. It’s been a headache for a young rapper trying to advance his career, but maybe a good problem to have.
“It’s like, ‘damn, why?’ But I know why—they really want the music,” OsamaSon says. “I’m going to give them the music. It’s not like I’m trying to hold it or anything. They’re just impatient as fuck.”
