CusaX

**Alexander Aaron Crawford** (born November 7th, 2004), known professionally as CusaX, is an American rapper and record producer. He and fellow musician CJC founded Yeo Records in 2020.

## Early life

Prior to the 7th grade, Crawford wasn't a regular hip-hop listener. He listened to pop music and rock only, because he generalized the music as being uninspired and repetitive, resembling rappers such as Lil Pump all through the genre. In 2017, Crawford began to expand his tastes. He first discovered Eminem's catalog and from there moved on to Dr. Dre, 50 Cent and other Shady Records artists. Eminem's Kamikaze was the first album that he listened to upon release. With these new found influences, he was inspired to create hip-hop music himself.

## Career

### Yeo records beginnings

In 2022, CusaX met CJC and ChampyG and shortly after, founded the label Yeo Records. Several mixtapes were produced during the early stages of Yeo, entitled Yeo, Yeo Deluxe and Yeo: Part II. They are now lost media and have been removed from the public eye. 44RON was signed to the label in May 2021. They then formed the rap duo S2N and released The S2N EP on July 30th, 2021, marking it as his first official multi-song release on streaming.

#### Roll With It records merge

Before 2021, Crawford's taste in hip-hop music specifically was relatively closed off. He befriended fellow rapper Embis in May of that year who encouraged him to expand his listening further within hip-hop. Embis also gave him in-depth constructive criticism and aided him in the executive production and engineering process. Embis proposed that Yeo could merge with his label Roll With It Records. From this point on, Embis and CusaX became very tightly affiliated. CusaX credits a lot of his musical advances to Embis.

### Albums

His solo debut Violent Poetry released in October 2021, which boasted very heavy Dr. Dre and Eminem influences. His second studio album, Murder Scene followed in March 2022, where he branched out from his roots. He stated his goal with this album was to improve on Violent Poetry's weaknesses. Consisting of boom-trap style production with soul samples and old school boom bap, it was first record with heavy involvement from Embis, He is credited as executive producer, engineer and has several vocal appearances. The last track, I Do, inspired his third record Talking To The Dark, which was released on Halloween 2022. It is CusaX's most personal work to date, with very dark and spacious trap production all throughout. It was also executively produced by Embis.

## Discography

### Studio Albums

* Label: Yeo Records
 Murder Scene | * Released: March 25th, 2022
* Label: Yeo Records
 Talking To The Dark | * Released: October 31st, 2022
* Label: Yeo Records
* Format: Streaming, digital download

### Mixtapes

(with Yeo Records)
* Label: Yeo Records
 Yeo Deluxe
(with Yeo Records)
* Label: Yeo Records
 Yeo: Part II
(with Yeo Records)
* Label: Yeo Records
* Format: Digital download

### EPs

(with 44RON)
* Label: Yeo Records
* Format: Streaming, digital download

### Singles

#### As lead artist

* Label: Yeo Records
 Woke
(feat. M.C.D.)
* Label: Yeo Records
 Find Peace
(feat. ChampyG)
* Label: Yeo Records
 Talk My Shit (Remix)
(feat. Embis & Matthew The Artist)
* Label: Yeo Records
 On The Offensive
(feat. 44RON)

* Label: Yeo Records
 Hellbound | * Released: August 26, 2022
* Label: Yeo Records
 End Of Days
(feat. 44RON, Embis, Angelicly,
ChampyG, & Matthew The Artist)
* Label: Yeo Records
 Step To Me
(with 44RON)
* Label: Self-released
* Format: Streaming, digital download

### Production

TBW