Freddie Dredd Drops New Mixtape ‘Cease & Disintegrate’ via RCA Records
PRAISE FOR Freddie Dredd
“Freddie Dredd is a veteran of the underground, an individual fiercely set on blurring the boundaries between horrorcore, trap, and punk rock.. the artist inches towards a mainstream impact, re-defining the next wave of post-rap.”
“As usual, the instrumental that he selected for this record hits as hard as I could ever have anticipated, and the eerie, robotic-sounding high-pitched synth is the main element that piqued my attention from the jump.”
“…off the wall and enigmatic…”
“Explosive, distorted and ferocious…”
Cease & Disintegrate is out now, buy/stream it here.
Today, Freddie Dredd — an ascendant force who’s racked up RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications with an “off-the-wall and enigmatic” (Earmilk) concoction of bass-boosted horrorcore, skinned-knee trap rave-ups, and wildly eclectic sample flips — returns with Cease & Disintegrate, a new mixtape out now via RCA Records.
LISTEN TO CEASE & DISINTEGRATE HERE
Canadian rapper and producer Freddie Dredd has built a burgeoning cult following with tracks that peddle in icy brutality, subsonic impact, red-lining 808s, and Freddie’s versatile sense of rhythmic pocket, as adept at embodying the lurching menace of “GTG” as he is injecting venom into the breezy bossa nova swing of his breakthrough single “Cha Cha.”
To his fans, he’s a figure who can synthesize disparate rap scenes and legacies — the skeletal and macabre horrorcore of Three 6 Mafia, the heavy swagger of nu-metal icons Korn, the raging South Florida psychedelia that swept Soundcloud in the late 2010s — into a concise, visceral, and unorthodox shape. Following a 2024 that saw Freddie score a platinum hit with “Limbo” and tour US arenas with $uicideboy$, he returns reinvigorated and hungry on Cease & Disintegrate — a project that precludes what is sure to be a massive 2025 for Freddie Dredd.
At a runtime of 15 minutes, Cease & Disintegrate hits with the disorienting immediacy of a glass bottle shattering against your skull. Produced by his friend and collaborator Calder, album opener “Useless” is a collage of sirens, dial-up screeches, and distorted industrial bass lines, while “Pursuit” and “You Ain’t,” with their fist-fight slap-bass grooves and squiggly jump-scare synthesizer stabs, hit like zombified New Jack Swing. Throughout, Freddie imbues fresh sound-worlds with his cocksure cadence and morbid fascinations, from cloud rap reimaginings (“Die Without A Fight”) to abstract soul exhalations (“Nothing Into Something”).
WATCH THE VISUALIZER FOR “YOU AIN’T” HERE
Following Cease & Disintegrate, Freddie Dredd will kick off 2025 by hitting the road with Pouya for the THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME TOUR. See dates below.
Earlier this year, Freddie shared “DREDD: The Beginning,” a behind-the-scenes documentary that served as both a travelog providing insight into Freddie’s Inaugural tour and an intimate portrait of Freddie’s idiosyncratic rise, featuring interviews with Freddie’s closest friends. “DREDD: The Beginning” has been viewed by over 100k fans on YouTube, and is currently making its way to all streaming platforms.
STREAM ‘DREDD: The Beginning’ HERE
ABOUT FREDDIE DREDD
Freddie Dredd initially gained notoriety as a member of the Doomshop/Sixtet Collective of underground artists. His breakthrough came in 2019 after his single “Cha Cha” caught fire on TikTok, where users were drawn to his vibey combination of ethereal samples and hard-hitting production. “Cha Cha“ went Gold, racking up over 192 million streams on Spotify alone. Freddie trended on TikTok again that year with his bossa nova-sampling single “Opaul.”
Based in Oshawa, Ontario. Freddie has carved out his own lane in music, reaching a global audience with a combination of gritty lo-fi sounds, vintage samples, and lyrics that veer between the bleakly philosophical and humorously macabre. Bold and daring, Freddie’s music takes inspiration from the horrorcore and dark trap of ’90s Memphis, TN — something he discovered by accident during his teenage years — as well the intensity of metal bands like Korn and Meshuggah.
In 2020, Freddie released Suffer, his debut EP for RCA Records, created in collaboration with his ongoing production partner Ryan C. Evolving his persona even further, in 2022 he released his debut album Freddie’s Inferno, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Spotify Global Charts. Flashing a predilection for distortion and red-lining bass, the young rapper leverages extreme imagery, damning metaphors, and creative threats to embolden a rap persona — part Freddie, part Hannibal Lecter, and part Lucifer. The album spawned the runaway hit “Limbo.” Now RIAA Platinum-certified (with over 315 million streams on Spotify), the ground-shaking track resonated particularly with the online gaming community, inspiring a deluge of fan-made Call of Duty videos that further propelled the track’s consumption.
As his star ascended — and his catalog amassed over 2 billion streams — Freddie took to the road. He whipped fans into a frenzy during his set at 2023’s Rolling Loud Miami; followed that up with a 20-city headlining tour powered by Rolling Loud; and joined $uicide Boy$ on their sold-out arena tour, joining them on the iconic Madison Square Garden stage to perform their collab “Provolone and Heroin.”
Following a yearlong break, Cease & Disintegrate is the launchpad for what’s destined to be Freddie Dredd’s biggest year yet, featuring extensive live dates as well as plenty of new music.
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