Pouya

Born in Miami, Florida in 1994, Pouya emerged on the American underground rap scene that developed around SoundCloud in the early 2010s, with a style at the crossroads of southern hip‑hop, cloud rap and a grittier alternative hip‑hop. Of Cuban and Iranian descent, Pouya began releasing regularly from 2011 and quickly became involved in Miami’s local scene, which also included Fat Nick, Denzel Curry and members of the Raider Klan circle. With Fat Nick he developed the collective and label Buffet Boys, an important framework for his early releases and several collaborative projects. After a series of mixtapes, Pouya released his first studio album, Underground Underdog, in 2016, followed by Five Five (2018), The South Got Something to Say (2019) and Blood Was Never Thick As Water (2021). His music combines rapid flows, a tense vocal delivery, more melodic hooks and dark or bass‑heavy productions, with direct songwriting often marked by introspection as much as by raw energy. Over the years Pouya has also worked with Sir Michael Rocks, $uicideboy$, Ghostemane, Ramirez and Terror Reid. After Buffet Boys was put on hold in 2022, Pouya continued his path via All But 6, notably with Gator (2023) and They Could Never Make Me Hate You (2024).