Quadeca

Benjamin Fernando Barajas Lasky (born October 2, 2000), better known by his stage name Quadeca, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and rapper. Lasky began uploading songs and videos to his YouTube channel in the 2010s and began pursuing his musical career in the 2020s, which has since been met with critical acclaim.

Lasky deviated away from his YouTube career as QuadecaX8 to focus on his music career, releasing four mixtapes prior to the albums Voice Memos in 2019, From Me to You in 2021 and I Didn't Mean to Haunt You in 2022. The mixtape Scrapyard, released on February 16, 2024, contains features from Brakence and Kevin Abstract. His fourth studio album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released in July 2025, and contains features from Danny Brown, Maruja and Olēka. His fifth studio album, Life 1, is expected to release in 2026.

Early life Benjamin Fernando Barajas Lasky was born on October 2, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Mitch Lasky, is a general partner for Benchmark, and a former entrepreneur and video game executive. Lasky became an avid soccer player as a child and was enthusiastic about hip-hop and other forms of music, spending his free time writing songs on guitar and piano. He was admitted to Menlo School in 2015, where he joined the soccer team. Lasky continued to play with his soccer team through his student years and became a tri-captain of the team.

Career

2018–2021: Voice Memos and From Me to You In late 2018, YouTuber KSI called out Lasky and other YouTube rappers, referring to them as "frauds". Lasky responded with a diss track, titled "Insecure", within a week. The music video received over 8million views within 10days. In November, KSI gave a review of the track and praised it, saying that it warranted a diss track from himself. He responded to Lasky's song with his own diss track "Ares", to which Lasky gave a lukewarm response in a tweet. Logan Paul revealed that he had wanted to collaborate with Lasky to diss KSI as well, but was denied.

After an extended hiatus, on January29, 2021, Lasky reannounced his second studio album titled From Me to You on YouTube, which released on March 30, 2021, under AWAL. He released the self-produced single "Sisyphus" on March 20, 2021, which garnered widespread critical praise.

2022–present: I Didn't Mean to Haunt You, Scrapyard and Vanisher, Horizon Scraper On September19, 2022, Lasky released the lead single to his third album I Didn't Mean to Haunt You, titled "Born Yesterday". He then released the album's second single, titled "Tell Me a Joke", on October 25, 2022. On the same day, he announced his album, revealing the cover art, tracklist, and release date. The album, a self-produced concept album where Lasky plays the role of a ghost reckoning with his own suicide as his loved ones move on without him, released on November11, 2022 and features experimental rapper Danny Brown and the Sunday Service Choir. The album was released alongside an accompanying film later that same day. I Didn't Mean To Haunt You marked a notable stylistic shift in Quadeca's artistry that was celebrated by critics, such as Spill Magazine, who rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, and Anthony Fantano, who ranked the album's lead single "Born Yesterday" as the seventh-best song of 2022.

On October3, 2023, Lasky announced via his Twitter and Instagram pages an upcoming project, "The Scrapyard Series". Lasky detailed that the project would consist of five separate EPs, consisting of 2–3 songs that did not make the cut for I Didn't Mean to Haunt You, or his then-upcoming album Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, each one being released every 2–3 weeks. The first EP was released on October 11, 2023, titled ScrapyardI. The second EP, ScrapyardII, was released October30, 2023, and the third EP, ScrapyardIII, was released on November22, 2023. On December 24, 2023, Lasky announced that the remainder of the Scrapyard EPs would not be released, but promised that the series would "go out with a bang". On February 15, 2024, Lasky published a music video for his song "Way Too Many Friends" as promotional material for the final installment of the series, a mixtape titled Scrapyard. The mixtape, which compiled all of the songs on the EPs as well as songs previously unreleased, released on February23, 2024. Scrapyard built upon Quadeca's newfound critical success in online music spaces with Anthony Fantano giving the project a score of 9 out of 10, ranking it as the 12th best album of 2024. KTLA also listed Scrapyard as the seventh best album of 2024.

Quadeca's fourth album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released on July25, 2025. It was accompanied by a full-length film posted to YouTube which was written and directed by Lasky, featuring the entire concept album in visual form. Lasky's Vanisher, Horizon Scraper Tour was from September30, 2025 to December15, 2025 in the U.S., Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Quadeca announced his Australia tour on November 23, 2025. Frontier Touring and Penny Drop made the official public reveal that day through social media posts on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The Australia tour for Vanisher, Horizon Scraper ran from May 2, 2026 to May 5, 2026.

Artistry Style and influences Lasky's early releases were categorized as "YouTube rap", influenced by rappers like J Cole. In his second album From Me To You, Quadeca drew from influences such as Tyler, the Creator, Joji, Childish Gambino and Frank Ocean.

With I Didn't Mean to Haunt You, Scrapyard and Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, Quadeca has since cited artists such as Duster, the Microphones, Lingua Ignota, Björk, and Caroline Polachek as influences. As a part of Pitchfork "Perfect 10" social media series, Lasky described how the album Construção by Brazilian musician Chico Buarque influenced his 2025 album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper. The opening track from Buarque's album, "Deus Lhe Pague", was sampled on Vanisher, Horizon Scraper's opening track, "NO QUESTIONS ASKED".

Discography Studio albums TitleAlbum details Peak chart positions USInd. USHeat Voice MemosReleased: March 8, 2019 Label: AWAL——I Didn't Mean to Haunt YouReleased: November 10, 2022 Label: DeadAir, AWAL——Vanisher, Horizon ScraperReleased: July 25, 2025 Label: X8 Music (Self-released)39—Life 1Released: TBA

Mixtapes TitleAlbum details Work in Progress Released: September 16, 2015 Label: Self-released Nostalgia for the Now Released: May 10, 2016 Label: Self-released Bad Internet Rapper Released: January 31, 2017 Label: Self-released Out of Order Released: November 10, 2017 Label: Self-released Scrapyard Released: February 16, 2024 Label: DeadAir +Collaborative albumsTitleAlbum details1DayReleased: October 7, 2018 Label: Self-released

EPs +TitleEP detailsScrapyard I Released: October 11, 2023 Label: DeadAirScrapyard II Released: October 30, 2023 Label: DeadAirScrapyard III Released: November 22, 2023 Label: DeadAiri.ii.iii Released: February 2, 2026 Label: X8 Music (self-released)

Singles + Title Year Album "Wii Music Fire" 2015 Work in Progress "Mind's Eye" 2016 Nostalgia for the Now "You Can't Rap" "Dreamlife" "2020" Bad Internet Rapper "Unscripted" "Lemon Tree" 2017 "Cause He Has One" "Who Would've Thought" Out of Order "Idontwannaspeakagain" "Hold Up" "Clouted Up" 2018 "Heart Attack" "No Deal" "Unusual" Voice Memos "Insecure" "Four Horsemen" 2019 "War!" Voice Memos "Uh-Huh" "Not a Diss Track" "Volt" "Gordon Ramsay" "The Man on my Left Shoulder" Voice Memos "Tomfoolery" "I Don't Care" "Schoenberg" "Fish Outta Bacardi" "Beamin "Class in Session!" 2020 Ignorant as Hell "Where'd You Go?" From Me to You "Alone Together" "Live Like This" "Sisyphus" 2021 From Me to You "Rip Bozo" "born yesterday" 2022 I Didn't Mean to Haunt You "tell me a joke" "GODSTAINED" 2025 Vanisher, Horizon Scraper "MONDAY" "FORGONE" "Dark Magic" 2026Life 1 "Baby Steps" "Hell of a time"

Guest appearances Title Year Album "Batter Up" 2018 "Lost in the Clouds" "Supreme" "Illy Mode" 2019 "Roll the Dice" New Age "Tonight's the Night" "Emergency" BOW "Duh Nuh" Tales from the Crypt "Outbreak" Disgrace "Bigger" Who Made This Album?"Solid" 2020 "Darken The Shadow" 2021 Darken the Shadow OST "Tunnel of Glass" 2024 Unwired Detour "NOLA" 2025 Blush "Abandon Me" "Red Light" "Book of Daniel" Stardust "What You See"