Freddie Dredd

Rapper Freddie Dredd had been cultivating an online following for a few years when his fan base multiplied with the video-app virality of his tracks "Opaul" and "Cha Cha." Those online hits account for a very small percentage of the Ontario native's output, which includes full-length projects ranging from Dredd (2017) to the RCA release Freddie's Inferno (2022). Often grimy, woozy, and ominous, with overdriven basslines, Dredd's music is often tagged as phonk, as his productions -- credited to Ryan C., an abbreviation of his birth name -- take cues from the chopped and screwed...