Mercenary

**Aiden Niedzielski**, known professionally as **Mercenary**. Is a multi-talented, rapper, producer, engineer, and singer. He gained recognition through dropping various singles through SoundCloud, some featuring collaborator Triple Blue.

## Musical Information

### Albums & EPs

Some Sad Songs EP (with Triple Blue) • I Want The One I Can't Have EP (with Triple Blue) • 1.5

## Career Beginnings (2018)

Mercenary began his career writing songs in 2018, originally just rap songs written in the notepad in his phone not intended to be recorded. The idea however did come about to start record and produce his own songs, when he met friend Triple Blue in a science class at school. Triple Blue told Mercenary that the songs he was writing were good and they that should collaborate on songs together, which led to Mercenary buying his first microphone in 2019.

## First song, EP, and Album (2019)

Mercenary released his first song ever "Downhill" featuring Triple Blue in January of 2019. It was released to a generally positive reception, but Mercenary's unorthodox style of rapping was a turn off to listeners. Along 2019, Mercenary would release 2 since-deleted projects. *Love. Live. Die.* and *Live Life to Love*. Both met with decent reception but still would garner criticism for Mercenary's rushed delivery. Mercenary later stated in 2020 that the reason the two projects were removed from SoundCloud was because he didn't "have an structure sound or flow" and prefers to look past that part of his come up.

## *Some Sad Songs* and *I Want The One I Can't Have* with Triple Blue (2019)

Following the projects Mercenary released in 2019, in the middle between solo projects he would release 2 collaborative EP's with friend Triple Blue. The EP's were met with praise for their structure and Mercenary & Triple Blue's chemistry as artists.

## Flow change, Engineer work, and New Album (2020)

Following the end of 2019, Mercenary announced he would be taking a huge break from rap. He said with the criticism's from his past work, he would go in the studio and work, work, work on perfecting his craft and wouldn't drop another song until it was perfect. Mercenary said in an interview in 2020 that:

> **"I made probably 3-4 songs a day at one point, most you'll never hear. I made 40 songs in a month one time, just wanting to constantly get better and prove people wrong"**
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During this break period, Mercenary would teach himself FL Studio how to mix, master, engineer, and produce to a degree. He came out the other end of the break with his most well received song "Puff, Puff, Pass" featuring Triple Blue & F3NIX in June to the tune of a few hundred streams first week and many well reviews. He would release the second song following his break "Around" in July. In anticipation for his upcoming album he released three more singles over the next months "It's My Time", "Lakers", and "Ain't for Me"

## Complete rebrand and new album (2021-present)

After failing to meet the deadline on his "1.5" album release multiple times, Mercenary decided it was time for another break to work on his mixing, flow, and production skills. Following "Ain't for Me" which released in August of 2021, he would not release a new single until the following year in January 2022. Where he came back with a remix of the popular Bhad Bhabie song "22", which he released on an alternate SoundCloud account outside of his main Mercenary page. It would be another 6 months until an official Mercenary release would materialize. He would issue two singles "Go" and "Do You Love Me" on June 10th, 2022. Shortly announcing after that "1.5" (or a version of the album) was still in the works

### Discography:

Albums

Singles (as a featured artist)
 Don't Tell Me You Love Me [featuring Mercenary] | Triple Blue
 The Crew [featuring Caleb, Mercenary & Brad¥] | NAT3 with a 3

EPs (with Triple Blue)
 I Want The One I Can't Have (EP)
 To the Moon... and Never Back (EP)