about the artist
Owae is a genre-blurring rapper, singer, and storyteller whose music lives between chaos and clarity.
Raised in the same DMV neighborhood as the rapper Logic and creatively reborn in New York City, Owae lives in a state of duality: part calculated business mind, part unfiltered creative maniac.
That tension doesn’t just shape his life; it shapes his art. His music reflects both sides, merging structure with spontaneity, clarity with chaos.
Influenced by visionaries like Tyler, the Creator and Childish Gambino, along with Post Malone, Kid Cudi, and Mac Miller, his sound blends sharp hooks with clever narratives that twist and unfold like short films.
Owae’s signature look — a torn-up suit — visually captures the duality that drives his sound: the tension between order and chaos, between calculation and impulse. “It represents the urge we all feel to break out of the cage of society,” says Owae, “and live freely, without the pressure of other people’s judgment.” That emotional conflict fuels both the music and the visuals, setting the tone for a debut that’s as honest as it is unhinged.
At his core, Owae is a writer. He gravitates toward themes that anyone can relate to—love, doubt, ambition, identity—and then flips them on their head, adding irony, tension, or an unexpected point of view. There’s always an ironic twist or perspective that makes the familiar feel brand new.
Originally known as Owae in high school when he first built local buzz, he’s since evolved through multiple creative identities. Now, in his fourth life as an artist, he’s bringing his ambition and sharpened sound together to take the industry by storm and finally tell his story the way it was meant to be told.