{"id":54000,"date":"2026-02-12T01:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/inside-destroy-lonelys-dark-cinematic-world\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:04:59","slug":"inside-destroy-lonelys-dark-cinematic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/inside-destroy-lonelys-dark-cinematic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Destroy Lonely&#8217;s Dark, Cinematic World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Vision<\/span><br \/>Destroy Lonely&#8217;s boundary-pushing approach to music and fashion has earned him a legion of devoted fans.\u00a0As he shapes a new world for his next album, he\u00a0continues to innovate.<br \/><em>Words:\u00a0Georgette Cline<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stepping into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/destroy-lonely\/\" target=\"_blank\">Destroy Lonely\u2019<\/a>s world feels like slipping into a modern-day scene from the classic 1994 goth film <em data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"99\">Interview With the Vampire<\/em>\u2014candelabras flicker in the studio, curtains are blacked out, and the atmosphere hums with dark, cinematic allure. It\u2019s an apropos setting for what looks like his lair inside a midtown Manhattan recording studio in New York City, where he\u2019s been spending much of his time over the last few months creating his next album, <em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Young Vamp Life\u2014the term and aesthetic that Lonely and the rest of the Opium artists, led by Playboi Carti, live by\u2014is palpable in this moment. Lonely\u2019s dark, fashion-forward fit is accented by a black leather jacket, matching pants, a sparkling YVL chain layered among other ice that matches his facial piercings, and a black skully perched atop his dreads, dyed a mix of silver, blond, grey, purple and black. \u201cJust tryna make the evilest sh*t possible,\u201d Lonely says, standing in front of the mixing console in the studio on a mid-afternoon last November as he previews songs set to appear on the forthcoming LP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvilest\u201d is open to interpretation. There\u2019s nothing truly nefarious about what he\u2019s getting into; instead, it\u2019s the kind of bad-means-good material that\u2019s on track to outperform his last album, <em>Love Lasts Forever<\/em>, released in 2024, in both sound and elevation.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Destroy Lonely, born Bobby Wardell Sandimanie III, spent much of his 365 days leveling up. The 24-year-old Atlanta rapper was outside, touring for the majority of the year on the European leg of his Forever Tour that spring and on the Antagonist 2.0 Tour alongside Playboi Carti, Ken Carson, Homixide Gang and Apollo Red last fall. Forty-five days on the road across both tours. Lone describes the Opium trek as a \u201cbig party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the first time that me and all my brothers really get to navigate this space,\u201d he shares of touring with his labelmates. \u201cWe\u2019ve opened up for Carti when he did this before a couple years ago, but now, like, us all being our own entities and having our own little worlds and getting to be able to present that together, it just feels fun. It\u2019s like a festival. It\u2019s like opening Six Flags or some sh*t. It\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also got to bring fans into his world with new music. Lone dropped the <em>\u1438<\/em><em>\/3\u00b3<\/em><em> (Broken Hearts 3)<\/em> mixtape this past September, following a career of projects that includes two albums (2023\u2019s <em>If Looks Could Kill<\/em>; 2024\u2019s <em>Love Lasts Forever<\/em>), and a stack of 15 EPs and tapes (2019\u2019s <em>Forever, ILY<\/em>; 2020\u2019s <em>Underworld<\/em>;\u00a0<em>\u1438<\/em><em>\/3; <\/em>2022\u2019s <em>No Stylist<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The latest 19-track mixtape, which Lonely describes as \u201ca lot of change, progression and growth within my skill of making music,\u201d features production from Clayco and Cxdy, some of the usual suspects on the rapper\u2019s past releases, among others like CADE and Icemn. <em>\u1438<\/em><em>\/3\u00b3<\/em> is steeped in the genre-blurring sounds and moody, futuristic take on experimental trap that has become synonymous with Destroy Lonely\u2019s brand. Vibe, cadence and tone take precedence over traditional lyricism paired with distorted, spacey production and melodic flows. \u201cBane,\u201d\u00a0\u201cNo Stylist\u201d and \u201cIf Looks Could Kill\u201d are shining examples of that approach.<\/p>\n<p>Ellantre \u201cTr\u00e95\u201d Williams has been assisting Lone in perfecting his sound as his engineer. They met at a studio in Atlanta in 2020, and have worked together ever since, kicking off with <em>No Stylist<\/em>. The 30-year-old engineer from Detroit, who\u2019s in charge of all the music, recording, mixing and mastering, and the live show aspect of Lone&#8217;s performances with playback and Auto-Tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything always boils down to music for me,&#8221; Tr\u00e95 says. &#8220;And as you can see, he has like influenced a lot of artists after him, but it\u2019s just like he created his own sound, bro. Him and the producers, Clayco and Cxdy in them early stages, they just created their own sound. From the beats, his vocal cadences, his raps, his flows, but really just the whole sound entirely is just something new. And just took fans by storm. Plus, he just got like a cooler look. He&#8217;s just a cool dude. You never know what to expect from him. It&#8217;s a journey you take the fans on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lone does just that with the intoxicating, guitar-licked \u201cAin\u2019t Hard,\u201d his latest tape\u2019s opening track. Lone proclaims, \u201cI\u2019m the god of flows, I\u2019m the god of drip, I\u2019m the god of swag.\u201d As a student of the game with rap in his blood\u2014his father is I-20, notable for his guest appearance on Ludacris\u2019 2002 hit \u201cMove Bitch,\u201d\u2014 and\u00a0raised on the catalogs of Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt and Carti, Lonely has a deep appreciation the art of flow, even if his own may be unconventional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like flow is to hip-hop that style is with fashion,\u201d the Top Floor Boss shares. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have your own distinct handbag of flows or your own way that you come on the track, then you don\u2019t really have an identity. I don\u2019t really think it simmers down to how your voice sounds or your inflection or anything. I think it\u2019s just the way that you get up in there, and if you ain\u2019t got that, you ain\u2019t got nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration his music offers others isn\u2019t lost on Lone. And it\u2019s not just limited to his impact on the fans. He hears himself in other rappers, though he declines to mention names. \u201cI definitely hear my flow in a lot of other artists,\u201d he maintains. \u201cI feel like what I brought to culture and hip-hop music, and my swag and my flow in the state of hip-hop right now, is for the kids that come after me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve done too much right now,\u201d Lone continues. \u201cI know what I\u2019ve done, and it\u2019s very inspirational and influential, but I feel like we\u2019ll see more of my stain on the world in the years to come. But with new artists that come out now, like a lot of the younger kids that I like and I listen to, I could literally see my influence painted all over them. That\u2019s not bad. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also trying to be a better influence when it comes to how he moves out here. \u201cBeen working on my problems, I\u2019m not tryna be too toxic,\u201d he raps on \u201cShow You How,\u201d off <em>\u1438\/3\u00b3<\/em>. \u201c[2025] for me has just been really about, like, grounding myself and just making sure that I&#8217;m just treating people the way I wanna be treated,\u201d he reveals. \u201cAnd just going through situations with a lighter heart or not being too hard on myself or being too hard on other people. It does take a lot of hard work.\u201d The studio has become his form of therapy.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Watch Destroy Lonely&#8217;s Interview With <em>XXL<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The safe space is why Destroy Lonely is currently in the process of making his best work yet. <em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em> is replete with the kind of music designed for stadium settings. Pulsing, soaring sounds and booming bass. During the beginning stages of making this album, he was dissecting Ye\u2019s <em>My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em>, listening to Lauryn Hill, 1990\u2019s rap, DJ Screw tapes and EDM duo Snow Strippers. Lone has over 500 albums on his phone and can go from Lil Wayne and Marilyn Manson to Ken Carson to\u00a0Lil Durk to Black Sabbath in one sitting. Lone has a few songs with Snow Strippers on his upcoming LP while producers Cxdy and Clayco are crafting the bulk of the beats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tryna build this new sonic, you see that sh*t is deep,\u201d the trendsetting rapper says after playing a few unreleased tracks. \u201cThat sh*t is heavy, too\u2026 That sh*t sound tough, though. It\u2019s coming together pretty well.\u201d The fuel feeding him while he&#8217;s holed him in the studio lately is french fries, no ketchup, no sauce. &#8220;I have a really bad addiction to french fries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title of his third album, <em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em>, is based on what Destroy Lonely deems as the \u201cultimate compliment.\u201d He\u2019s creating a whole new world, no <em>Little Mermaid<\/em>, with innovation as the goal. Lone admits this is the most difficult music he&#8217;s made so far and enjoys the challenge because he accomplishes more that way. After all, he&#8217;s been playing video games on hard mode ever since he\u00a0started recording himself as a kid gaming on YouTube. When he does complete a song, a sense of accomplishment washes over him. He never thought he&#8217;d be able to make music like this. \u201cI feel like this will be the most Destroy Lonely album that I\u2019ve made,\u201d he expresses. \u201cIt\u2019s not gonna be like anything that I feel like anybody has ever heard from me before.\u201d Getting down to the construction process starts with the sonic textures Lonely comes across, like a designer piecing together fabric for a runway piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Cxdy, I could just send him a reference, like some of the albums I\u2019ve been listening to, the textures,\u201d Lone explains. \u201cIt\u2019s not really like pure influence. I\u2019m not ripping sounds. How the audio sounds. I could send Cody like a rip of a Savage song or like a Ye song or something and be like, \u2018Bro, you hear these parts of it?\u2019 And he could come back with a whole new world for me based on our inspirations and references and sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta start from somewhere,\u201d he adds. \u201cI usually just sit and digest a lot of sh*t. I probably listen to all my albums 10 times and just go out and look for new sh*t. It\u2019s like as if you making clothes or you tryna paint your house. You go pick all these fabrics and colors and everything, and then you make your own sh*t from it. I get all these blends and textures I wanna use and I throw it in a pot and make my own sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fashion is also his forte.\u00a0Depending on the day, Lone is dripped out in dark, avant-garde aesthetics, often times tailored to his slim frame. Rick Owens is one of his favorite clothing brands, which he&#8217;s labeled as an essential.\u00a0He\u2019s collaborated with 1017 ALYX 9SM during his <em>No Stylis<\/em>t era for a capsule collection featuring exclusive graphics stamped on T-shirts, sweatshirts and more. Lone even walked the runway during the Vetements Paris Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week in 2024. He\u2019s continued to make his presence known\u00a0during Paris Fashion Week\u00a0a yearly occurrence, going viral for stepping out in boundary-pushing designs alongside his girlfriend Shannade Clermont of the Clermont Twins. This year, he attended the Rick Owens fashion show in all-white attire, including a striking longline coat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashion is really important to me because I\u2019m just the person that\u2019s really big on self-expression,\u201d he shares. \u201cI love expressing myself, and I have like this version of myself in my head that I think I look like, so whatever I can do to make me look like that, I would love to do that. And that&#8217;s why I love fashion. I feel like it allows people to be like a little elevated version of yourself. Fashion is ruleless. You could dress like this, you could dress like a clown and not, like, in a metaphorical sense, but literally, like a clown, like the Joker, or you could dress like a f**king ninja, or you could do whatever.\u201d He&#8217;s not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Lone hopes to bring more of his innovative ideas to life this year. Lone is leaning into his business ventures and wants to show the world his hand creatively. Everything that he\u2019s released, including merch, video shoots, album covers, and the word-building that comes with them, have been his vision. \u201cI just kinda wanna paint on a different canvas, just outside of music, do a little bit more stuff in fashion, a little bit more stuff in film,\u201d Destroy Lonely conveys. \u201cNot to say my focus isn\u2019t music, but I just wanna expand more creatively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His plans in film are motivated by the likes of a West Coast rapper who made iconic classics like <em>Friday<\/em> for the culture. \u201cI eventually want to write and create my own movies, kinda like in the sense of like a Ice Cube, but not in a comedy way. Just like how Ice Cube has great successful movies that he\u2019s written, but he also acted. That&#8217;s literally what I wanna do.\u201d The silver screen awaits.<\/p>\n<p>While there isn\u2019t a confirmed date for <em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em> yet, it\u2019s likely to arrive this year. Another project that could come along after his album release is the highly anticipated, long-awaited joint project with longtime friend and collaborator Ken Carson. Lone confirms there are about 20 holy grails fans expect from the release. The two artists dropped the song \u201cThe Acronym\u201d this past December, a possible teaser of what\u2019s to come with their collab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started our careers at the same time,\u201d Lone recalls. \u201cMe and Ken kinda like both got signed at the same time, both got thrown into this sh*t. That\u2019s my brother. We shared all these experiences together. So, we&#8217;ve had this idea of making this project forever, but I&#8217;m still me, he&#8217;s still him. We&#8217;re still growing separately as well, and with life, it kinda takes time away, but he&#8217;s always right next to me. Like, he&#8217;s in the other room, in the studio right now, so we&#8217;re always actively working on [the project]. And now it just feels like the time where we&#8217;ve done our own personal laps around enough that we could probably come together and make something amazing.\u201d YVL is in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fans are just so excited for me and Ken to make a project because, outside of my big brother, Carti, I feel like me and him are two of, if not the two most innovative artists of our generation,\u201d Lonely insists. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t see our generation as the same generation as Carti&#8217;s or the people that came before us. I feel like we\u2019re leading for everybody after us, and I just feel like people are ready to see what we could do together because we\u2019ve shown y\u2019all so many times what we can do together, and now I think people are just ready for that bubble to burst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Opium connection goes beyond working relationships. Ken and Lonely came up in the Atlanta rap scene, looking to the careers of artists like Playboi Carti as inspo. Eventually, they both got signed to the label. Lone, who joined Opium and Interscope Records in 2021, has developed a meaningful friendship with Carti along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarti to me is a lot more than a label owner or a music partner or a peer,\u201d Lone explains. \u201cHe\u2019s genuinely my big brother, like, as if we shared the same blood. So, I could always call him and ask him about anything. More so I talk to him about life more than music. I don\u2019t really call him for nothing but life advice. Like, to be honest, I definitely let him hear all my projects. I definitely like to see what he\u2019s thinking. But honestly, I\u2019m just a student, so I aspire to be where my big brother is at, if not, maybe even better than him one day. No offense. It\u2019s just like, that\u2019s how I should feel. So, I just always learn from him, I learn from Ken, I learn from everybody around me because I admire all of my friends, Homixide Gang, Apollo Red.\u201d Family first.<\/p>\n<p>In the dim glow of the candlelit studio and the sounds of\u00a0his new album filling the air, Destroy Lonely stands at a pivotal moment. Fresh off a year of relentless touring, viral fashion statements and the steady expansion of Opium\u2019s cultural stronghold,\u00a0he&#8217;s channeling growth, influence and self-reflection into what he calls his most Destroy Lonely project yet. Tr\u00e95, who\u00a0refers to Lone as \u201cdynamic,\u201d believes he&#8217;ll not only continue to grow but become the face of rap.\u00a0<em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em>\u00a0is the sound of an artist sharpening his edge, embracing experimentation, and designing a world that stretches beyond music into fashion and film.\u00a0He&#8217;s got his sights set on the future\u00a0while\u00a0creating with the utmost optimism he&#8217;s had in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel the best I ever felt, and that&#8217;s what\u2019s keeping me motivated,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There\u2019s something deep in my spirit right now that\u2019s giving me all these ideas, from my album to everything that I\u2019m doing right now, and I\u2019m just holding onto that because it&#8217;s something telling me, like, this is what I\u2019m supposed to be doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New level\u00a0unlocked.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Listen to Destroy Lonely&#8217;s <em>\u1438<\/em><em>\/3\u00b3<\/em><em> 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