Zotiyac

Cortez A. Young (born February 22, 2000), better known as ZOTiYAC, is an American rapper, songwriter, lyricist, and independent artist from Las Vegas, Nevada, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.
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==Winona Ryder==
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==Quotes==
Catchphrases & Past Sayings 
*"This is the ZOTiYAC speaking."
* "I'm just here for the check."
*"Daddy Death in this B***h"
* "Midnight, Crow Life"
==Discography ==
To view his entire discography, click here
== Early Life==
Young was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. During the fourth grade of elementary school, he moved to Las Vegas with his mother and stepdad. "I come from the 816, the bottom, but that’s what's up, Bendorf Elementary, till my family packed it up and moved from south to Vegas, where I had to make a fast adjust" - Zotiyac, "GATES Freestyle"
Young has described his upbringing as difficult:
"I was a youngin', and we barely had food, whole time my momma and 'em tryna stack blue" 
- Zotiyac, "Escape Room"
He was a self-professed troublemaker in school, often disobeying his teachers and sometimes refusing to attend class. During high school, Cortez met Angel, better known as Heist, and they quickly became close friends. He eventually dropped out of high school entirely.
==Rap Career==
Young had started rapping at a young age, learning how to rhyme by often reading poems in school. In 2013, Young began his music career using the rap alias "Tezz Dog". Not much is known about his 2013 to 2014 music career. 
In 2015, Young would release music using his real name Cortez Young. In late 2015, he would release his music on SoundCloud because "it was popping", first naming himself "Zero", then using his real name again. His music at the time was very lyrical and boom-bap inspired. 
In 2016, Young created an account on Bandcamp, releasing his first ever album, Arcane (SSRI) on March 19, 2016. It would show off Young's skills as a lyricist, featuring genres of Hip-Hop, Trap, and R&B. He would release singles from 2015 to 2016 on SoundCloud. One of his earliest songs is a remix of J. Cole's song "A Tale Of Two Citiez", in which Young freestyles for over five minutes. 
He would later switch to his current alias, Zotiyac (stylized as ZOTiYAC until 2019). In an interview with Vibes Forever, Zotiyac stated that he came up with his rap name by reversing his initials (C. A. Y.), and drawing inspiration from the Zodiac Killer. 
In late 2016, Zotiyac would join the underground collective, Midnight Society. He would release many collaborations with The Virus and Antidote, one of the producers in the group. However, Zotiyac has stated that his objective in joining Midnight Society was to make music with a select few members, and that he didn't associate with most of the group. "I never spoke in the chat," he stated in an Instagram Live in 2020.
In March 2017, Zotiyac attended SXSW in Texas with Midnight Society. He would finally meet Swerzie during the event in person. A few days later, they would release their first collaboration, "Misbehaving". Later that year, Swerzie would add Yac to the Icy Rotten roster.
Throughout 2017, Zotiyac would start creating music in the Trap Metal genre, comprising of intense screaming and heavily distorted instrumentals. In March, he released CONTAMINATED, which is an entire Horrorcore mixtape entirely produced by the Russian music producer Lunar Vision. Zotiyac would release more Trap Metal songs, such as "KAIOKEN X187", "TOOLATENOW", and "BRAiNF**K" all of which would do significant in the underground and establish him as one of its most prominent and aggressive artist.
During this time, Zotiyac didn't own the stems to his music, as he does today. The mixing of his songs was inadequate, which is evident in his song "NEVER THAT". The lousy mixing was because Zotiyac gave the stems to his songs to members of Midnight or friends of the group who were terrible at mixing.
A fan asked Zotiyac on Twitter if he considered himself a Horrorcore artist, to which he responded:
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In 2018, Zotiyac's voice had gotten more profound, which limited him from being able to scream in his songs because of his deep vocal pitch. After releasing "KAIOKEN X187", Zotiyac announced that he would stop making Trap Metal and Horrorcore music, stating that he would "never do it again". He would remove all of his songs in that style from his Soundcloud page. It had sparked outrage among his fans, who had become accustomed to the music genre.
However, this would benefit Zotiyac because he would see even greater success after abandoning screaming. The release of tracks such as "Talk Shit", "Laps", "LICC HOE$", and "Jungle Book (Freestyle)" gained him a reputation as one of the best lyricists in the underground.
Zotiyac tweeted about it as well:
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===Milestone Tracks===
Whenever Zotyac's Soundcloud follower count reached a milestone, he would release a freestyle track to celebrate.
*"1k Freestyle" (rel. March 27, 2017)
*"5k Freestyle" (rel. December 1, 2017)
* "10k Freestyle" (rel. February 12, 2018)
* "20k Freestyle" (rel. September 23, 2018)
Unfortunately, he has stated that he will release his next milestone track once his Soundcloud hits 50k and 100k followers.
=== Music Style ===
Zotiyac's rapping style has evolved over the years. His lyrical content is mainly about getting money, guns, and killing his opps. His trap metal lyrical content is the same, but it is on a hardcore rap level, involving murder, suicide, homicide, and many other sadistic acts.
*Aggressive & Fast-paced rapping
*Clever and Unique lyricism
*Trap Metal/Horrorcore/Hardcore Rap
=== Music Labels ===
Since Zotiyac started his music career, he has released his music under no major record label. Unfortunately, he still received many offers from various music labels trying to get him to sign him under their name, but he has declined every offer.
I'm never signing to a label 
- via a 2018 tweet
However, in late 2020, an unknown record label reposted all of Zotiyac's projects and songs onto streaming platforms. Shortly after, Zotiyac announced that he did sign with a music label, but he wasn't pleased about having his music reposted. He would cancel his deal with them, never revealing the label's name, and he would continue to self-release his music.
== Crow Life Origins==
The following info is from Zotiyac's interview on the Back2Back Hip-Hop podcast."Crow Crew was like middle school or some shit like when I first started that shit, it was originally me, Heist and CYN was the artists in the group, or no, it was me and CYN. Heist wasn't there yet, until later on. My favorite animal was a Crow, and a flock of crows is called a murder. Eventually, the name evolved; it went Crow Crew to Crow Life. It's just Crow, it's all the same shit." - Zotiyac (2018)
==Affiliation with Midnight Society==
"I am not, I repeat, I am not associated with Midnight Society in no way, shape or form." - Zotiyac (2018) Back2Back Hip-Hop Podcast
It is unknown exactly when Zotiyac joined the group, but it is likely that he joined the Midnight Society in 2016. He stayed with the group from 2016 to 2017 until he departed because of a "miscommunication" with some members.
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On June 12, 2017, the founder of Midnight Society, Kamiyada, tweeted: thumb|290x290px|link=https://twitter.com/spacegodkami/status/874361238045814785|none
Even though Zotiyac left the group, he's still on good terms with some members, such as Yung Bambi, The Virus & Antidote, and Rare Akuma.
"Basically, long story short, what happened was me, and another mothaf**ka got into an issue. That person happens to have his face in their group. This person dm'd me sent me paragraphs about their what's the word "discomfort." I messaged him back and said, "Fo' sure I'm outie." It was just miscommunication, a bunch of shit floating in the air from other mothaf**kas comments and shit. Ion know rap n***as are sensitive. It is what it is, I'm way off that." - Zotiyac (2018) Back2Back Hip Hop Podcast
==Merch==
First Generation (2016)
Zotiyac's first merch line was announced on November 9, 2016 and delivered to fans on December 4, 2016.
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Second Generation (2017 - 2018)
Zotiyac announced his second merch line on April 25, 2017.
Third Generation (2020)
Zotiyac released his third merch line on February 12, 2020.
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Fourth Generation (2021)
Zotiyac released his fourth-generation merch on January 1, 2021. Zotiyac released hoodies, Hats, and T-Shirts on February 17, 2021
==Body Features==
Tattoos 	Tattoos 	Tattoos 	Tattoos
Spider Web (Upper Right Arm)	Kansas City (Middle Left Arm)	Gas Mask (Inner Right Arm)	Unknown (Outer Right Arm)
 	 	 	
Piercings	Piercings
 	
Hair Evolution
Zotiyac's hair has gone through some significant changes throughout the years.
2016 to mid-2017: Zotiyac grew an afro and started wearing his trademark bandanna.Artworks-000454119627-ddbfzv-t500x500.jpg
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2017 to 2018: Zotiyac stopped picking out his hair and let it grow.Main Image.jpeg
2019 to now: Zotiyac "let his hair do what it wants" inadvertently growing freeform dreadlocks. He has said he will get them twisted eventually, but he wants to get it done by a professional. He has also wholly discarded the bandanna.102993996 262371571695695 3420030383589858090 n.jpg
In the music video to his song "Stretch Sum", Zotiyac is seen wearing his signature bandanna again.Stretch sum (1).JPG
In a picture from Twitter, Zotiyac has his dreads twisted, making them appear shorter.Zotiyac_(20).jpg
==Achievements==
*His YouTube channel is four years old (created: November 21, 2018)
*On August 3, 2022, Zotiyac achieved 400K+ monthly listeners on Spotify
*On August 6, 2022, his YouTube channel reached 16K+ subscribers
*On December 22, 2022, "Cream" reached 5 million+ streams on Spotify
*"Cream" and "Walk Upz Freestyle" both have achieved 5 million+ streams on Spotify
*On December 21, 2022, his YouTube channel reached 17K+ subscribers
*On December 23, 2022, Zotiyac achieved 500K+ monthly listeners on Spotify
*On December 19, 2023, "Cream" had achieved 10 million+ streams on Spotify
==Popular Songs==
Number of plays and views for each song as of August 5, 2022. 
*"Won'tStopCan'tStop" w/ Kel Killuminati, and Kamiyada: 632K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 13 January 2017
* "Never That": 869K+ on YouTube, 142K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 31 January 2017
*"1" w/ Bambi: 6.3+ million on Spotify, 836K+ on YouTube & 626K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 27 February 2017
*"Insomnia": 928K+ on Spotify, 462K+ on SoundCloud; rel. March 7, 2017
* "LayYourAssDown": 1.1+ million on Spotify; rel. March 17, 2017
*"Misbehaving" w/ Swerzie: 998K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 31 March 2017
*"Cryptograms" w/ VTB: 484K+ on SoundCloud; rel. July 12, 2017
*"Level Up": 385K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 8 August 2017
*"Gas Only": 1.03+ million on SoundCloud & 909K+ on YouTube; rel. August 25, 2017
*"Talk Shit": 1.53+ million on SoundCloud, 1.5+ million on YouTube & 739K+ on Spotify; rel. 10 September 2017
*"No Witnesses": 817K+ on SoundCloud, 577K+ on YouTube; rel. October 3, 2017
*"Last Man Standing": 388K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 27 October 2017
*"5K Freestyle": 769K+ on SoundCloud, 730K+ on YouTube & 513K+ on Spotify; rel. December 1, 2017
*"Licc Hoe$": 1.1+ million on YouTube, 985K+ on Spotify & 746K+ on SoundCloud: rel. December 23, 2017
*"hush": 806K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 28 January 2018
* "Red Dot": 819K+ on SoundCloud & 779K+ on YouTube; rel. 11 April 2018
* "Problem Child": 498K+ on YouTube; rel. 14 April 2018
*"Bitter" w/ Kil: 1.4+ million on Spotify & 452K+ on SoundCloud; rel. May 24, 2018
*"Exposed": 1.09+ million on Spotify & 583K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 9 June 2018
*"0 F**ks": 1.8+ million on Spotify & 637K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 9 June 2018
*"Walk Upz (Freestyle)": 3.4+ million on Spotify & 1.09+ million on SoundCloud; rel. 13 November 2018
* "Laps": 1.5+ million on Spotify, 961K+ on YouTube & 889K+ on SoundCloud; rel. November 16, 2018
*"Jungle Book Freestyle": 506K+ on YouTube & 503K+ on SoundCloud; rel. February 7, 2019
*"Mardi Gras": 405K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 27 March 2019
*"Drills in the Hills": 2.9+ million on Spotify, 395K+ on YouTube & 356K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 2 June 2019
*"Auto Pistol": 2.2+ million on Spotify & 695K+ on SoundCloud; rel. 6 June 2019
*"Ether": 959K+ on Spotify & 450K+ on YouTube; rel. 2 October 2019
*"Cream": 2.6+ million on Spotify; rel. 28 May 2020
*"Come Here": 590K+ on Spotify; rel. April 20, 2021
==Fun Facts==
*Zotiyac hates a big percentage of the music that he's released
*Zotiyac has gotten numerous co-signs from bigger artists, such as Craig Xen and Pouya 
*Zotiyac doesn't wear his nose ring anymore because he felt like it was too much metal on his face
*Zotiyac knows of fellow artist Sybyr (fka Syringe) despite never meeting IRL. He has liked some of his music, and they even follow each other on Instagram. Sybyr has spoken highly about Zotiyac, stating that he wouldn't mind making music with him.
*Zotiyac is a fan of WWE, often making references to wrestlers and wrestling moves within his lyrics
* Despite Zotiyac taking numerous songs off his Soundcloud page, nearly every track he deleted has been re-uploaded.
*To this day, Zotiyac still gets questions asking if he's ever going to do screamo rap again, to which he ignores or laughs off
*Throughout the entire time he was making Horrorcore music, Zotiyac was compared to XXXTENTACION, which he hated, considering he was doing the style before X was famous. Despite not being a huge fan of him due to this, Zotiyac paid his respects to X when he died.
*Even though Zotiyac left the Midnight Society in July 2017, he is still friendly with Yung Bambi and the Virus and Antidote. He even participated in the "Midnight Fest" in August of that year.
*In March 2020, Swerzie announced he was working on a collab EP with him, downtime, and Zotiyac. Later that month, he dropped the first song from the EP, "Nothing To Me".
*This is the second time an EP between Swerzie and Zotiyac has been teased, with the Icy Rotten Twitter account announcing "1-800-187" in 2017. It was never released, but Swerzie confirmed that he recorded some. Unfortunately, most songs got lost due to Swerzie's laptop getting stolen in 2019.
*In an interview, he revealed his Zodiac sign—Pisces—when talking about his birthday
*In an interview, he revealed that he hates when people wish him "Happy Birthday"
*On an Instagram live, he stated that he screamed in his tracks because he was "mad"
*In July 2019, Zotiyac took part in a Pouya tour
*It is prevalent for him to remove songs off his SoundCloud, despite August 2017s "Gas Only" being his earliest song not removed
**"Fun & Games Freestyle" was removed from his SoundCloud as of February 27, 2020
**According to Zotiyac, if a song of his is over two years old, it is likely that he will remove it
*You can find three videos online of high school-age Zotiyac freestyling from 2014-2015 when "Cortez Young freestyle" is searched on YouTube
*Throughout his music career, over 200+ songs by him have surfaced on the Internet, and there are more that have never surfaced, which could bring Zotiyac's track/song count to 250 or more
* He continues to post various singles and features under ZOTiYAC on Spotify
* According to Yac, the only "underground" artists he's met IRL are 83HADES, Swerzie, Kamiyada, Original God, Fukkit, Yung Bambi, and VTB
==Best Lyrics==
*"We shoot an opp in the face wait 'til his funeral, shoot up the wake"- Red Dot
*"Popo gon' pull up and freeze me, watch me throw bullets like my name RG3"- Talk Shit w/ Heist187
*"Shots sound like pots and pans, it's a pandemic"- Take Yo Chain w/ Drownmili, Burnkas, & Kill Stacy
*"Put metal inside of that boy like a piercing"- Laps
*"Purchase every pistol of deep web with my PayPal, a bit of coins can make my brothers, blackout you blank out"- Ain't Hard to Find Me
*"Crypto mean I come in the night, tiptoe with the gun and the knife" - Cryptograms ft. VTB
*"This ain't no game, I'm not Treyarch, shoot up the store got my K in the Kmart" - 5K Freestyle
*"Don't wanna be you, I'd much rather beat you and bleed you and redo, it's really what we do" - A Lot On My Plate
*"Hickory Dickory, blowing a blickity, no magic trick when he disappear instantly" - Auto Pistol
*"Big M16 in the closet, you could catch 3 16s like Austin" - Ether
*"My gun a hillbilly, it's f**king yo cousin" - Jungle Book Freestyle
*"Pussy boy watch for yo Passo yo posse all pussy I know they gon' follow, I'm splitting his meat 'til he got vitiligo" - Level Up
*"Notebook Pro, but I came with the Mac 10" - Hired Gun
*"Gotta keep the .4 'cause it's affordable, and we carry pistols 'cause it's portable" - Like We Won't Meet Again w/ STRY
*"Catch a body, give a f**k if it's Sunday, smash the mommy, give a f**k what the son say, inside a white b***h like fudge on a Sundae" - Gas Only
*"We gon' read between him, let the magazine rip" - Fifty
*"If I overheat, most will be cooked if they close to me, these n***as is pussy, get stomped in they ovaries, overly odd" - Insomnia
*"You should relax or just crack or collapse Cadillac got a Mac in it" - Noose Tight w/ Adalwolf
*"You n***as like the Ottawa Treaty half of them don't have a mind, it's asinine, I flow like a water tap, put 'em back in line" - I'mJustTheOneWhoAin'tLimitedByAF**kingFlaw w/ The Virus & Antidote and Lambo Lawson
*"Try me at six you won't make it to seven, the cops will not be on that case 'till 11; It take two hours to get the detectives, but by that time, Rigor Mortis it done set in" - LICC HOE$
*"She threw me the face at the show hardly, then she said we finna date, I said 'oh, are we?'" - SNAKES
*"N***a stand up and this shit gon' get funny" - 20K Freestyle
* "I know a Russian that do not speak Russian" - Ulysses
*"Paintin' your shit with a stick, I'm Michelangelo" - Animal
* "I pop out the cut with the P90, point it like suicide if you get behind me" - HEAVY HANDS
*"B***h I don't Owe you, I'm a consonant aye" - LayYourAssDown w/ The Virus & Antidote
*"I give a square n***a some circular shit 'cause a n***a can't tell how yo' circle move" - MAC11
*"I mask up for Mankind, and take the mask off, I'm Mick Foley" - AHAA HAHA
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==Cortez Young Freestyles==
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