Young Trace
Compton, Los Angeles County, CA · b. 1997 · FARA Records
Full Bio / WikiYoung Trace (DeShawn Ellis, b. 28 September 1997) grew up in Compton with a head for detail that didn't fit the music-industry stereotype — he was the kid who actually read the contract, who wanted to know exactly how a stream turned into a cent and who kept that cent. Watching 96 Grand's generation get outmanoeuvred on paperwork radicalised him toward precision: if the industry's whole game was obscured math, his answer was to make the math impossible to hide. He became the group's de facto auditor before he was ever its rapper.
He started writing verses about royalty statements the way other people write love songs — with obsessive, specific detail. Meeting 96 Grand and Keys gave that obsession a stage; “We Recoup” is built almost entirely from the kind of granular, provable detail he insists on. His influences run the dense, internal-rhyme, detail-stacked lineage of technically precise West Coast and conscious rap — Kendrick Lamar's structural rigor, the meticulous bar-density of underground battle and conscious scenes.
On stage he's the group's auditor — sharp, detail-obsessed, impossible to out-argue on the numbers. Cool rather than hot; his precision is the threat. His stage name is literal — he tracks everything, obsessively, down to the cent — and he was the group's unofficial auditor before he was ever its rapper. Precise, obsessive, exacting.
What they are
Young Trace is an AI-realised act from FARA Records — Fully Artificial, Radically Authentic, the AI-native label of SPATIALx. The lyrics, emotional brief, arrangement and production behind every act on the label come from human writers and directors. Suno renders the vocal and musical takes from there, and the results are handed back to be curated, re-prompted, edited and mastered until they say exactly what they were built to say. We don't hide any of it — the seams are part of the art. This isn't AI filler standing in for a band. It's real songwriting, real direction, and a voice that didn't exist before.
