OsamaSon

South Carolina rapper OsamaSon became widely known within the underground rap scene after his breakout hits "Cts-V" and "Troops" gained traction online in early 2023, but his quick rise to stardom didn’t exactly happen overnight.

He came up at the perfect time: in an era where audiences were fatigued—from the senseless TikTok acts that fell as quick as they rose, the carbon copy underground rappers of the early 2020s that all had the same preset, a pop wave that never transpired into a mainstream movement, and in general, from a period of music that never got the chance to flourish properly due to a global pandemic.

With Osama’s unique spin on the darkplugg revival that was occurring in 2022 and 2023, combined with his bubbly personality that shined through his Thriller snippets and IG lives, he garnered a die-hard fanbase that ushered him into the spotlight of the underground, breaking him into a viral sensation that was everywhere on the internet by the time his debut mixtape, Osama Season, released.