Swae Lee

About

Khalif Malik Ibn Shaman Brown (born June 7, 1993), known professionally as Swae Lee, is an American rapper and singer from Inglewood, California. Known for his wide-ranged, reverb-heavy vocals and genre-blending, Lee is one half of the Mississippi-based hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, which he formed in 2010 with his older brother Slim Jxmmi.
Rae Sremmurd signed with Mike Will Made It’s EarDrummer Records, an imprint of Interscope Records in 2013. The duo’s first three studio albums — SremmLife (2015), SremmLife 2 (2016) and SR3MM (2018) — debuted within the top ten of the Billboard 200, and spawned hit songs including “No Flex Zone,” “No Type,” and “Black Beatles” (featuring Gucci Mane)—the latter of which topped the Billboard Hot 100. As a solo act, he guest appeared on French Montana’s 2017 single “Unforgettable,” which peaked within the latter chart’s top ten—becoming his first song to do so as a solo artist—and received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Later that year, he received a Grammy Award nomination for co-writing Beyoncé’s single “Formation.”
In 2018, Lee released his debut solo studio album, Swaecation, as part of Rae Sremmurd’s…