Guapdad 4000

Alumni

Aug 4

Guapdad 4000 aka Akeem Hayes aka Bitcoin Batman aka Shia Labustdown aka The Ferragamo Falcon aka The Valentino Viper aka The Raf Simons Raven aka Scamzel Washington aka The Balenciaga Bank Bandit aka The Versace Velociraptor is a man of many names with a great sense of humor and a lot of talent. The Bay area rapper released his first project, Scamboy Color in 2017. He would then become heavily affiliated with Compton rapper, Buddy who would feature Guapdad on his album, Harlan & Alondra in 2018 on the song “Shameless” as well as the posse cut, “Link Up” that appears on the deluxe version with Ari Lennox, Bas, JID, and Kent Jamz.

In 2019, The Falcon made his biggest splash, appearing on 4 tracks on Dreamville's Revenge of the Dreamers III: “Oh Wow...Swerve,” “Don't Hit Me Right Now,” “Wells Fargo (Interlude),” and “Costa Rica.” He would also be featured on 2 more tracks on the 2020 Director's Cut edition of the album: “Passcode” and “No Chorus.” On “Oh Wow...Swerve,” Guapdad, Smino, JID, and Buddy appear as the supergroup, Zoink Gang. According to Buddy, the four artists have enough tracks together for a whole project.

In October 2019, Guapdad released his album, Dior Deposits, with features from 6lack, Denzel Curry, E-40, Buddy, Key!, Maxo Kream, Charlie Wilson, and more. Standouts from the album include “Doing Too Much,” “Izayah,” “Can't Stop Finessing,” and “Rolex Rockstar.” On “Can't Stop Finessing,” Guapdad reaches his full potential with the line, “Got a Bible verse in her bio so I know she gon' let a n***a fuck fast//I imagine she's Jorja Smith when we fucking so I could bust fast.”

In 2020, Guapdad started “Falcon Fridays” during the COVID-19 quarantine, where he released a new song every Friday. He turned this into an EP, Platinum Falcon Tape, Vol. 1. Standouts include “Greedy,” “Platinum Falcon,” and “Bali” with Rich Brian. He also started Rona Raps during the quarantine, freestyling with other rappers over Facetime. Guests included Buddy, Chris Brown, Denzel Curry & Wiz Khalifa, Rich Brian & Lil Yachty, Joey Bada$$ & Curren$y, Kota The Friend, WowGr8, Ramriddlz, & Murs, SiR & Boogie, Reason & Childish Major, Bryson Tiller, Deante' Hitchcock & Saba, Isaiah Rashad, and Symba. In June 2020, Guapdad released “Lil Scammer That Could” featuring Denzel Curry, the first single from Platinum Falcon Returns. Other standouts from the sequel include “Orgasm Full of Pain” featuring Deante’ Hitchcock and “Choppa Talk” featuring TyFontaine. He would also be featured on Thundercat’s “Dragonball Durag (Remix)” along with Smino.