High-profile collaborations with Rich the Kid and PnB Rock helped bring New York rapper Jay Critch's Auto-Tuned flows and charismatic, decidedly East Coast pop trap style to a wider audience. Critch began writing rhymes when he was in grade school, and he was making music full-time by the end of his teens, sticking to singles and remixes for the first few years of his career. He eventually expanded to releasing mixtapes, offering up a string of projects like 2018's Hood Favorite and 2021's Critch Tape.
Jay Critch was born in the Clinton Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1997....