Casi
Casi
Casi is the self-titled debut album from the duo Casi (pronounced “ka-zee”), the collaborative project of longtime friends and rappers Eli Edwards (also of Enumclaw) and Xayvien “Xay” Young, released in June 2026 on Carpark Records. The ten-track record grew out of years of writing together between their hometown of Spanaway, Washington, and Los Angeles, with songs like Jumper, Intrusive Thoughts, Human Stereotype, Bridges, and Eleven87 forming the core of a sound that fuses hip-hop with post-hardcore, screamo, nü-metal, and early-2000s emo. Gritty rapped verses, screamed hooks, and heavy, distorted guitars sit side by side, giving the album a restless, deliberately hard-to-classify character that reflects the duo’s shared musical upbringing and refusal to pick a single lane.
Lyrically, the album digs into isolation, depression, heartbreak, family tension, money stress, and life as young Black artists moving through a politically and socially volatile United States. Jumper channels the anger and fear stirred up by witnessing immigration raids and protest crackdowns in Los Angeles, while other tracks swing between intimate confession and explosive catharsis as sections flip from rap to shouted, emo-styled choruses or breakdown-heavy passages. Reviewers emphasize that beneath the intense production and genre collisions, the through-line is friendship: twelve years of knowing each other translates into fast, instinctive switches in mood and style that still feel coherent, making Casi both a bold, hybrid debut and a kind of manifesto for kids who grew up on rap and Warped Tour bands at the same time.
Casi
Casi
Casi is the self-titled debut album from the duo Casi (pronounced “ka-zee”), the collaborative project of longtime friends and rappers Eli Edwards (also of Enumclaw) and Xayvien “Xay” Young, released in June 2026 on Carpark Records. The ten-track record grew out of years of writing together between their hometown of Spanaway, Washington, and Los Angeles, with songs like Jumper, Intrusive Thoughts, Human Stereotype, Bridges, and Eleven87 forming the core of a sound that fuses hip-hop with post-hardcore, screamo, nü-metal, and early-2000s emo. Gritty rapped verses, screamed hooks, and heavy, distorted guitars sit side by side, giving the album a restless, deliberately hard-to-classify character that reflects the duo’s shared musical upbringing and refusal to pick a single lane.
Lyrically, the album digs into isolation, depression, heartbreak, family tension, money stress, and life as young Black artists moving through a politically and socially volatile United States. Jumper channels the anger and fear stirred up by witnessing immigration raids and protest crackdowns in Los Angeles, while other tracks swing between intimate confession and explosive catharsis as sections flip from rap to shouted, emo-styled choruses or breakdown-heavy passages. Reviewers emphasize that beneath the intense production and genre collisions, the through-line is friendship: twelve years of knowing each other translates into fast, instinctive switches in mood and style that still feel coherent, making Casi both a bold, hybrid debut and a kind of manifesto for kids who grew up on rap and Warped Tour bands at the same time.