Mathew Michael Chao, popular as Yacuzzi in the music world, is a rap artist who belongs to Richmond, California. He began his music career at 23 in 2019 with the single, “No More” and finally, he created his debut album, “Cupid’s Stray”.
He derived his inspiration from bands namely Queen, Green Day, blink-182, and AC/DC to embark on his musical journey. In his music, Yacuzzi instills a combination of lyrical rap and eccentric guitar tones. While growing up in Richmond, California, Yacuzzi would live in a rundown apartment in Central Richmond till 12.
Yacuzzi has seen the transition from the poor to the rich phase in his life. His town was filled with drug dealers and gangs. It taught him what life really is and he started listening to rap & hip-hop music to enjoy some happy life moments.
When Yacuzzi entered the sixth grade, he learned how to play the guitar and he embarked on his musical journey. Eventually, he started producing music in 2012 by learning to use FL Studio with the help of his high school friend, Alejandro.
Soon, Yacuzzi also got to know the art of DJing and music production. After this, he started making electronic dance music and even tried his hand at rapping. It made Yacuzzi create hip-hop beats in a natural fashion.
In 2018, he connected with Alex Platt who is the son of Gary Platt, a popular engineer of the Bon Jovi band. Yacuzzi learned music engineering from Alex at his studio and it made him closer to his dreams. In July, he signed with a marketing agency and he started receiving recognition for his musical works.
And it made Yacuzzi cross 1 million streams on SoundCloud in a year. Due to his great music, Yacuzzi got verified by GENIUS, Cash App, SoundCloud, and Spotify. His song “Fine” has got 96,000 streams on Spotify and 531,000 on SoundCloud.
In his music, Yacuzzi chooses his lyrics very carefully to put his emotions into it. The music artist believes that the content should be valuable to listeners and he sends important messages to people through his sound just like artists Juice WRLD, Iann Dior, Trippie Redd, MGK, and 24KGOLDN.
Yacuzzi – https://genius.com/artists/Yacuzzi-rapper
Instagram – @yacuzzi