69ERRAS

**69ERRAS** is a rapper from the Live Free collective. He has appeared on Norf, Rising, and Hustle Till Success, as well as Holy Water with Mcee Detox. Alongside Mcee Detox, he is also a good friend and frequent collaborative of Norff's, 12Digits', and Gee Mak. In October 2021, his first single was released - Chasin This Life with Norff. His initial introductory name was Era.

69ERRAS spent 2021 to 2022 working on his debut project, Power. During this time, 69ERRAS released several singles to varying reviews - lukewarm to very positive - such as "MY PEOPLE", "Wrong", "Without Me", and more - before announcing the intention of the release strategy was for people to form their own EP. Following this, he announced that the EP was just an introductory to his album of the same name. The album released in August 2022 and saw 2 discs, one in English, and one in his native tongue Sesotho.

## Career

### 2021 - Now:

69ERRAS joined Live Free as Era, alongside 12Digits, who joined as Square Lee. The duo appeared alongside Gee Mak on Norff's Too Loud for his debut introduction to the public. The song was met with positive reviews and secured 69ERRAS' collaborations with Norff in the latter's second album Norf.

69ERRAS then appeared across 12Digits' debut album Rising on several songs, before appearing on Mcee Detox's single Holy Water (along with Norff). He then released his debut single, Chasin This Life with Norff to positive reviews and an impressive stream count for his first single. He then appeared on another posse cut with his contemporaries on Hustle Till Success, a song entitled White Noise.

69ERRAS appeared across Norff's third album Overmorrow - his features here are considered amongst the strongest aspects of the album and is frequently cited as some of 69ERRAS' strongest work. The next month, 69ERRAS debuted his individual streaming channel (his prior single released on Norff's) with My People, a song met with positive reviews.

In February 2022, 69ERRAS released Give Me Your Love, which would be included alongside Gee Mak's Dear Crush and 12Digits' Missing You in a makeshift Valentine's Day EP. He again appeared on a posse cut lead by Gee Mak entitled Love. The next month, his song Without Me was released to critical acclaim. At this point, 69ERRAS described his idea for his debut EP Power being that the listener take his released singles and form them how they want across the makeshift EP, leaving it entirely up to their interpretation. Alongside this statement, he declared it as "loading".

Following this, 69ERRAS announced via Twitter in early July that his single "Wrong" featuring 12Digits would be his last release for awhile. He later clarified this statement as a "ruse" when announcing "Rising: The Album". During the promotional period of this album, 69ERRAS hinted at a double disc effort that featured "unheard features" from a majority of the label's roster.

The album was released in August 2022, with the first disc being tracks recorded in English (minus the last, to tease the second disc's contents) and the second disc, subtitled "Sesotho Disc" being songs recorded in that language. Three tracks previously unreleased on streaming services came in the form of remixes, done by Mike Barkhoff. The album was met with positive reviews.

## Releases

2021:

- several features on Norf

- several features on Rising

- Chasin This Life (with Norff)

- one feature on Hustle Till Success

- six features on Overmorrow

2022:

- My People (with Norff)

- Give Me Your Love (with Norff)

- Love (by Gee Mak, with Norff and 12Digits)

- Without Me

- Wrong

- Power