NOT THA ONE, Riddlore, Ira Lee & Vanessa John Release “The Person On The Internet”
“The Person on the Internet” arrives like a left-field meteor strike, pulling together three generations of underground disruptors — Riddlore, Ira Lee, and Not Tha One — with a spectral assist from Toronto multi-hyphenate Vanessa John. The record hits as a murky, boom-bap cyber-storm that feels tailor-made for rap heads who prefer their beats dusty, their bars cerebral, and their worldview defiantly anti-incel.
The track plays out like a cipher happening inside a glitchy neural network, where every emcee folds language until it snaps. Riddlore brings his trademark navigational precision — the same renegade energy that helped shape Project Blowed and define L.A.’s avant-rap ethos in the ’90s. Ira Lee follows with twisting, wounded storytelling that turns self-interrogation into performance art. And Not Tha One, the current evolution of Canadian rapper Evan Tyler, fires off his signature barrage of verbal aerobics, MicroKorg stabs, and garage-born distortion, pushing the track into a new dimension.
Vanessa John becomes the record’s unexpected gravitational pull. Her ghostly guitar notes drift through the mix, bending around the song’s jagged percussion and live, grime-stained synth textures. The interplay adds a strange tenderness to the track’s harsher edges — a reminder that even in the most abrasive corners of the underground, there’s room for beauty that refuses to sit still.
The hook lands like a digital confession booth: “You’re the person on the internet… and I’ve been searching for you all my life.” It’s equal parts intimate and unsettling, a love letter written through static and anonymity, aimed at whoever’s hiding behind a blurred avatar and a burnt cigarette.
“The Person on the Internet” sets the tone for the trio’s upcoming full-length album, due in 2026 — a project that promises to expand on their shared universe of experimental rap, improvised noise, and multi-layered vocal identities. For Not Tha One, it marks another entry in a long lineage of raw, garage-level recordings and abstract rap poems that reject the idea of a single voice. For Riddlore and Ira Lee, it’s another frontier to warp. And for the underground, it’s proof that the weirdos are still leading the charge.
