Drexthejoint

Drexthejoint is a Santa Ana rapper who started putting out music in early 2024 and broke through with "Bounce Out." His 15-song debut tape, The One Who Did, arrived in January 2025 with Cypress Moreno, Mike Sherm and Heembeezy on it, and two months later he played Rolling Loud California. He told interviewers he raps about what he has lived in the city he comes from, and songs like "Put the City On" keep Santa Ana in the title role.

"Bounce Out" landed in April 2024, and HotNewHipHop heard some of YG's early work in its bouncy West Coast production. By January 2025 the song had passed 5.5 million Spotify streams. EARMILK pointed to his vocal drawl and laid-back, off-beat cadences, and he told Hip Hop Vibe that rap "was always my thing. It was my therapy."

The One Who Did came out on January 10, 2025, and runs from the opener "Bad Bitches" through "Do It Up" and the more reflective "Why," with guest spots from Rowdy Racks, El Moreno Mexicano and DomFromLp alongside Cypress Moreno, Mike Sherm and Heembeezy. Hip Hop Vibe lists his management as Now & Forever in partnership with Santa Anna Records. His Rolling Loud debut came that March at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, and Juice Unlocked covered his set there with DJ C.Roc.

Since then he has kept the videos coming: "RapperK," "So What" with Pfacebabyyy, "OC 2 SD" with Lil Weirdo and, in 2026, "Run Up," which had more than 240,000 YouTube views by November 2026. By then his channel had passed 40,000 subscribers and his Instagram about 89,000 followers. Juice Unlocked ranked him No. 6 on its 2025 list of the top OC rappers of all time.