Texas SoundCloud rapper Jace! makes good with a Southern-fried approach to trap beats and rhymes. When he released his breakthrough diss track "556 (Green Tip)" in 2022, listeners were taken aback by the juxtaposition of his aggressive lyrics with an almost whimsical, old-school track underneath it. Such is the nature of Jace!'s work, inviting fans to expect the unexpected given the constraints of trap and plugg music.
The Fort Worth native (born Jace Salter in 2003) initially didn't approach hip-hop as much more than a fan, working instead as a teenaged graphic designer for ...