Stunna 4 Vegas

Stunna 4 Vegas is a North Carolina rapper with a brusque, antagonistic approach influenced by fellow Southerners such as <a href="spotify:artist:4OBJLual30L7gRl5UkeRcT">T.I.</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:13y7CgLHjMVRMDqxdx0Xdo">Gucci Mane</a>. Within a few years, he went from an aspiring teenaged MC to a respected underground figure to a major-label signee. After he built up a sizeable discography of mixtapes and stray tracks, and linked up with <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a> on the single "Animal," Stunna made his commercial full-length debut with Big 4x (2019), and soon thereafter cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard 200 with Rich Youngin (2020). The rapper's discography has continued to expand with full-length projects such as Welcome to 4 Vegas (also 2020) and Rae Rae's Son (2022), followed by the independent releases Stunna 4 Files (also 2022) and 4EVER (2024).

Born Khalick Caldwell, Stunna started rapping during his last year of high school in his native Salisbury, a city between Winston-Salem and Charlotte. As simply Stunna, he made small strides independently with releases including 4 Way or No Way and Stunna Season 2. Later in 2018, he sought <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a> for a guest verse on the single "Animal" and subsequently signed with the emergent Charlotte artist's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Billion+Dollar+Baby%22">Billion Dollar Baby</a> label. Stunna and <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a> continued to record together, and they both eventually landed major-label deals with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a>.

In May 2019, Stunna made his <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a> debut with the full-length Big 4x. A number 50 entry on the Billboard 200, the album featured <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a> on "Ashley" and "Sticks," <a href="spotify:artist:4DdkRBBYG6Yk9Ka8tdJ9BW">Offset</a> on "4th of July," <a href="spotify:artist:3hcs9uc56yIGFCSy9leWe7">Lil Durk</a> on "Durkio," and additional collaborations with <a href="spotify:artist:0ErzCpIMyLcjPiwT4elrtZ">NLE Choppa</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5yPzzu25VzEk8qrGTLIrE1">Young Nudy</a>. Stunna returned only eight months later with 2020's Rich Youngin. It reached number 29, supported by verses from <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5f7VJjfbwm532GiveGC0ZK">Lil Baby</a> on the lead track "Do Dat." The follow-up, Welcome to 4 Vegas, was out before the end of the year. Tracks such as "Choppa Town," "Gangsta Party," and another collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:4r63FhuTkUYltbVAg5TQnk">DaBaby</a>, "Rich Off Words," quickly reached streams in the millions. The same year, Stunna appeared on Polo G's multi-platinum single "Go Stupid." After a string of loose tracks and featured appearances in 2021, Stunna issued his unflinching fourth and final <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a> album, Rae Rae's Son, in 2022. Months later, he issued the independent mixtape Stunna 4 Files. He issued another handful of singles over the next couple years before he returned with 4EVER in 2024. <a href="spotify:artist:1GVenmuuAtusi17LY6FvgI">Skilla Baby</a> joined him on the standout track "Made Men." ~ Andy Kellman