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Coming from the dangerous and beautiful musical city of Saint Louis, Rockey Washington is a talented recording artist who’s consistently making his mark in the music industry. Paving his way through the Hip Hop and new wave music scene.

Inspired by his drummer father and legends like Kanye West and Drake, Rockey started rapping from the young age of 15, performing at local events, open mics and opening shows for other popular artists. Although his heart generously beats for Hip Hop music, his love for other genres is also inevitable and he would often fuse Hip Hop with elements from other genres, to create fresh and creative sounds.

Having traveled across continents, to places like Germany, France, Rome, Amsterdam, and every major city in America, Rockey is able to bring a lot of culturally influenced sounds into his music. Rockey persistently works to master his craft and come with new projects, every three months.

His latest project “Pandemic” is inspired by the ongoing Covid-19 scare and quarantine situation. The album is written, produced, and mixed under quarantine in Los Angeles. Combining hard-hitting yet smooth flowing vocals with immaculate songwriting skills, Rockey Washington is surely the new shining star in the Hip Hop music scene.

lower bavarian musician / producer / DJ / mixing & mastering engineer, based in vienna.

releases on jazz & milk recordings (munich/D), freerange (UK), brownswood recordings (london/GB), sampling as an art (paris/FR), frank music (berlin/D), big beak recordings (vienna/AT), pusic records (innsbruck/AT), UKWNOY (munich/D), pulver records (stuttgart/D), bonzzaj recordings (bern/CH), fresh minute music (london/GB), affine records (vienna/AT), duzz down san (vienna/AT).

remixes and dub-mixes for b.visible, esches, janefondas, nemoy, funkyjaws, swede:art, inverse cinematics, JSBL, doppel d, trishes, g.rizo and more.

forthcoming
17.6.2016 pulsinger & irl live @ sonar festival / barcelona
27.5.2016 pulsinger & irl live @ lighthouse festival, porec / croatia
22.4.2016 dj-set @ „pusic records label night“ /w mono mode & soma , tante emma / innsbruck
15.4.2016 dj-set @ „skymax release-party“ /w ruutu poiss, conny hope, feater, elektro gönner / vienna
1.4.2016 live-set @ „raw land release-party“ /w dusty, norwege:art & flo’alike, celeste / vienna
26.3.2016 live-set @ "raw land release-party“ /w dusty, d2e3, milla / munich
12.3.2016 live-set @ „analogue twist“, alte mälzerei / regensburg
4.3.2016 live-set @ café holler / deggendorf
27.2.2016 live-set @ „winterfest“ /w andrés, moodymann & flo real, heuer am karlsplatz / vienna
26.2.2016 live-set @ soundframe pre-party, café leopold / vienna
12.2.2016 dj-set @ „adabei“ /w moony me & hanzo, sass / vienna
29.1.2016 pulsinger & irl live @ pratersauna closing / vienna
2015
19.12.2015 pulsinger & irl live @ „desi soli fest“, EKH / vienna
30.10.2015 pulsinger & irl live @ „fm4 unlimited“, rathaus / vienna
25.7.2015 live-set @ popfest, roxy / vienna
25.6.2015 dj-set @ hotel imperial / vienna
23.5.2015 live-set @ pfingst open air / salching
21.5.2015 live-set @ scharfrichterhaus / passau
10.4.2015 live-set @ „bretterbodendisko“, brut / vienna
27.3.2015 live-set @ pratersauna klubnacht / vienna
27.2.2015 live-set @ „flair & flirt“, elektro gönner / vienna
2014
28.11.2014 dj-set @ mdw aufspiel, rote bar volkstheater / vienna
31.10.2014 live-set @ fm4 unlimited rathaus / vienna
17.10.2014 live-set /w franz spencer @ ladenbergen / bergen
4.10.2014 pulsinger & irl live @ phil10, gartenbaukino / vienna
31.5.2014 live-set @ „beatmaker sessions“ /w abby lee tee x stikz x lowa, levni & sloth pallas, skitzophonics, celeste / vienna
28.5.2014 live-set @ club oben / vienna
24.5.2014 live-set @ „the future sound“ /w abby lee tee, richard eigner, stadtwerkstatt / linz
23.5.2014 dj-set @ „wiener endorphine“, wirr / vienna
1.5.2014 dj-set @ café holler / deggendorf
30.4.2014 live-set @ „freundschaft“, celeste / vienna
27.3.2014 dj-set @ „salon 2000“ /w dave aju live, roman rauch & reboot joy confession, celeste / vienna
22.3.2014 live-set @ „jazz&milk footprints release party“, milla / munich
21.3.2014 live-set @ „maesonic“, forum stadtpark / graz
25.1.2014 live-set @ „tontausch“ /w ali europa & perrez, K4 / nürnberg
2013
21.12.2013 feater live-band @ EKH / vienna
19.12.2013 live-set @ „2 years beatmakersessions“, fluc / vienna

Before his untimely death at the age of 28 in December 2021, Drakeo the Ruler was unequivocally the voice of Los Angeles street rap. Born Darrell Caldwell, Drakeo earned his first round of buzz from 2015's I Am Mr. Mosely tape, but established himself as a force whose impact would be felt far beyond Los Angeles city limits with 2017's Cold Devil. Drakeo's rap style was both menacing and conversational, the MC rarely emoting beyond a
sort of ransom-call Whisper. His reign as the voice of LA was marked by intervals of incarceration, Cold Devil having been recorded in 10 days of freedom that followed a nearly year-long stint in jail. Another bout of incarceration, ending in November 2020, sparked a remarkably consistent creative tear for the MC, with Drakeo releasing We Know the Truth, Because Y'all Asked, The Truth Hurts, A Cold Day in Hell, Ain't That the Truth, and So Cold I Do Em 2 in the span of a year. Drakeo the Ruler's voice could be found alongside any number of his LA contemporaries (Ralfy The Plug, 03 Greedo, Bino Rideaux, Blxst), but he also counted some of the biggest names in hip-hop among his fans-like Drake, who, in learning of The Ruler's
fatal stabbing, posted a picture from the MC's time modeling for his OVO
clothing label, writing that his "Talk to Me" collaborator had "always picked
my spirit up with your energy. RIP Drakeo."

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