After a run of mixtapes and EPs that made Nettspend one of the biggest young voices in rap (he turns 19 years old next week), his debut album, Early Life Crisis, is out now. The project dropped last ...

Nettspend has been on a rapid ascent over the last few years. It started with the teenage rapper’s “Drankdrankdrank” going viral on Twitter, and that was followed by his debut mixtape, Bad Ass F*cking ...

Maybe in the future we’ll see a documentary about the Gucci Fall/Winter 2026 show in Milan, the first collection from Demna at the label, and a seismic event within the underground rap world. Or, at ...

At just 18 years old, Nettspend finds himself in a pretty unique spot. Initially donning a staunch “underground” label, pretty much confined to his internet era-induced, IYKYK sound and label, the ...

For the Milan Fashion Week enthusiasts out there who watched Gucci’s fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear show, you might have noticed one runway model amid the horde who seemed to garner more attention than the ...

My eyes figuratively popped out of my head the first time I heard NBA Youngboy on “masked up,” a highlight from Nettspend’s recently released early life crisis. Now Nett’s dropped a simple but ...

In every emerging “underground” rapper’s trajectory into the mainstream – if they’re lucky, that is – they’ll land a Lyrical Lemonade music video, which often serves as another springboard into the ...

Nettspend 's debut studio album, Early Life Crisis, and his debut mixtape, Bad Ass Fucking Kid, are available to shop on CD on Complex. The Richmond, Virginia, rapper has been building toward this ...

Gunner Shepardson, a.k.a. Nettspend, is making yet another name for himself—this time, it's in fashion. The Virginia-born rapper just stepped out onto the Gucci runway in Milan (not his first fashion ...

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