Featured In
ALBUMOne More Day - SingleWatsky, Rachel Zegler & Tommy Designer
Albums by Watsky
ALBUMWatsky Live! from the MetroWatsky
ALBUMIntentionWatsky
ALBUMPlacementWatsky
ALBUMComplaintWatsky
ALBUMx InfinityWatsky
ALBUMAll You Can DoWatsky
ALBUMCardboard CastlesWatsky
ALBUMWatskyWatsky
Watsky's Popular Music Videos
Hey, Asshole (feat. Kate Nash)
Watsky
Moral of the Story
Watsky
Talking to Myself
Watsky
Strong As an Oak
Watsky
Cardboard Castles
Watsky
Tiny Glowing Screens Part 2
Watsky
Artist Biography
With whimsical imagery and a syncopated, turbocharged flow, Watsky is a multi-talented DIY success story who blends spoken word and rap.
• Watsky’s father is a former English professor, while his mother worked as an elementary school librarian. He credits his parents with fostering his passion for wordplay.
• A high school teacher referred the once-disruptive Watsky to Youth Speaks, a poetry workshop in San Francisco. In 2006, he was crowned the Youth Speaks Grand Slam Poetry Champion.
• He appeared on Season 6 of HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam.
• Watsky’s jazz/hip-hop band Invisible Inc. released a self-titled album in 2007. The ensemble returned for a second LP in 2018.
• In the 2010s, Watsky earned hundreds of millions of streams portraying William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe in the web series Epic Rap Battles of History.
• His 2014 album All You Can Do cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It includes “Whoa Whoa Whoa,” an Anderson .Paak–produced song with a video starring Jim Belushi and Bo Burnham.
• His Shockwave-assisted song “An Open Letter” appears on the 2016 gold-certified Hamilton Mixtape compilation.
• Penguin Books’ Plume division compiled 13 of Watksy’s essays for the 2016 book How To Ruin Everything.
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap