2024: Initial virality
After contemplating quitting music in late 2023, Blunts began uploading videos to TikTok in 2024, quickly gaining popularity. [5] He released three projects between February and March, as well as the single "The Cup", which received support from rapper Lil Yachty. [6] Blunts later signed to the Los Angeles label Listen to the Kids. On June 28, 2024, he released his debut studio album, Well Dude Here's My Thing. [7] He would release his second studio album, If I Could I Would, on October 18. [1]
In November 2024, Blunts performed at Juice Wrld Day, a concert commemorating late rapper Juice Wrld, while using an oxygen tank. [8] Videos of the performance went viral. [9] [10] During the performance, he directed criticism towards rapper Snoop Dogg, who had previously insulted Blunts in an Instagram post. [9] [11] Snoop Dogg later apologized for his comments. [7]
2025: You Can't Say That and work with Kanye West
On an episode of Bradley Martyn's Raw Talk podcast posted to YouTube on December 17, 2024, Blunts announced that his upcoming third studio album would be titled Exactly So Shut Up. [12] The album was ultimately titled You Can't Say That, and was released on April 18, 2025. In the album, Blunts raps about his health struggles, record deals, previous feuds with other artists, and former girlfriends. [13] [14] In a Instagram post accompaniying the album's announcement, Blunts complained about people who've accused him of being too vulgar, saying that "these are the harsh realities of my life and I’m not gonna Kidzbopify my lyrics because the shit I go through is not sunshine and rainbows." [13] The album received generally positive reception, with Vibe praising the record for being "littered with moments that leave you with no choice but to sing and jam along". [14]
In February 2025, Blunts met fellow rapper Kanye West through the latter's agent, and they started working on an album together. [15] [16] According to West, he and Blunts would spend hours talking each day, and the latter would write songs based off their conversations. [17] Blunts has been reported as the sole writer for West's upcoming album In a Perfect World, starting after the former previewed the single "WW3". [18] [19] The album's second single, titled "Cousins", was fully written by Blunts. [20] Blunts has denied that the album is antisemitic, describing it as being "about one man going between hurt, betrayal and pain". [19] He has also published several reference tracks created for In a Perfect World online. [21]
While hospitalized in May 2025, Blunts surprise released his fourth studio album, Change or Get Changed, via SoundCloud. [22] [23]
Feud with 50 Cent
In July 2025, Blunts would start feuding with rapper 50 Cent after the latter mocked West for showing up at Sean Combs' trial. 50 Cent had made other statements towards West in the same year, mainly in response to the song "Cousins". [24] Blunts would begin feuding with 50 Cent to defend West, with both exchanging posts about each other on social media. After 50 Cent said he would push Blunts "down the stairs" if he ever saw him, the latter previewed a diss track aimed at the former, named "Hey Curtis" in reference to the rapper's legal name, on Instagram. In the track, Blunts calls him an "actor" who does not "really want no drama", as well as accusing the mother of his children of going to Combs' freak off parties. [25] [26] Blunts also mocked 50 Cent's appearance in the 2011 film All Things Fall Apart , writing it off in comparison to his own weight loss, as 50 Cent "lost all that weight for that weak ass movie and nobody watched that shit." [25] The song's music video, previewed a few days before its release, parodies the video for 50 Cent's 2003 promotional single "Many Men (Wish Death)", with Blunts working out while a trio of nurses examine him. [27] The diss track would be officially released on August 23, 2025. [28]
