This may sound odd, but Blxst doesn’t consider himself a singer. He considers himself a rapper. “I’m a rap fan at the end of the day,” he says. “That’s how I got into music. My cadence is rapping, but I'm still doing melodies and things like that. I just seen somebody comment on my post today. They asked, ‘Is Blxst an R&B singer or is he a rapper? Somebody answered with, ‘He's an R&B rapper.’” If you listen to the South Central Los Angeles native’s music, you’d understand exactly what that person meant by that comment. 

Blxst architected a new wave of West Coast hip hop and culture by hand, not only through rapping, singing, songwriting, and producing but also as a creative visionary who mixes, masters, and self-edits his own videos and artwork. 

Today (July 19), he released his debut album, I'll Always Come Find You  – a note to himself. “Get lost in your journey. Go through the trials and tribulations, ups and downs, but just know I always got your back. It's a pretty dope story and it's just like an introspective journey more so than anything,” he says. “The inspiration was me as a kid and just wanting to make that dream album of what made me a fan of music in the first place and just pulling different inspirations from all the artists I was a fan of.” 

The 20-track project is divided into four chapters, just like a real story. “One of the inspirations was also making a concept album, you know? Cause all of my favorite albums were concept albums coming up, so that was one of the biggest goals. And we got it done. I got a whole short film attached to it as well. So it's exciting for me to step into that field as well, too. Cause that's one of my future goals – to be an actor,” Blxst reveals.

Blxst, 31, also reveals that releasing this album was the biggest moment of his career. “I'm a little bit of every emotion,” he says. “Nervous, anxious, but most importantly, I'm confident in the body of work that I came up with.” 

Working with Anderson .Paak on the project’s latest single, “Dance With The Devil,” was a full-circle moment for Blxst. ‘I'm a huge fan of Anderson .Paak. I think he's one of the reasons why I'm the type of artist I am today. Just being a producer, songwriter, rapper, that's kind of how I entered the game when I first started making music, just being hands on with every department of music, even down to engineering and mixing myself,” Blxst explains. “So to work with him, was like a reassurance that I'm on the right path, because I literally have a tattoo on my neck from one of his albums. That should just let you know the magnitude of how I look up to him and to have him on my debut album was huge for me.”

In 2023, Blxst reached a new height in his career with his two Grammy Award nominations for “Best Melodic Rap Performance” as a feature on Kendrick Lamar’s “Die Hard” with Amanda Reifer and Album of the Year on Lamar’s fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.

Blxst recently performed two songs at Lamar’s legendary Juneteenth Pop-up concert. ‘I was in the midst of history, just witnessing it. I was there as a fan, more so than the artist. I didn't even care to perform, but to be on the stage with all of them, you know, great artists from the OGs that came before me to the upcoming new artists, it was a great moment for LA,” he says. “It's so many layers to the greatness that Kendrick has, even down to the point of him sharing the stage with all these different artists that many people don't even know their names. He’s giving different people platforms, and I think that's beautiful. I think we have a different light on LA right now, and I just want to champion any artist that's coming up to just drop music. If you from LA, take over the summer right now.”  

Blxst also performed at the BET Awards 2024 Red Carpet Live Preshow with fellow South Central artist Bino Rideaux. The duo was nominated for Best Group on behalf of their third collaborative project, Sixtape 3. “That's my brother from another mother,” he says of Rideaux. “We had the opportunity to develop a new sound for LA. I say that with pride because this was amongst the time when everything was so aggressive and we kind of went against the grain and made a sound that people can dance to and vibe to and just throw parties and feel player versus aggressive. We linked up maybe in 2019 and been building ever since.” 

Despite already collaborating with some industry greats like Snoop Dogg and Nas, Blxst says he wouldn’t feel complete if he didn’t collaborate with Pharrell. “That's an artist. I kind of took his blueprint as well, just in terms of songwriting, producing, and being an artist. Even down to him skateboarding – that had a big impact on my childhood until I broke my ankle. So that's what made me full-fledged getting into the music,” he adds.