Who’s afraid of Nettspend? He hasn’t even peaked yet.

thefader.com:

Unless your favorite dessert is cotton candy, you’ll understand the implicit problem with BAD ASS F*CKING KID, the rabidly anticipated debut of teenage rapper Nettspend: It's mostly fluff.

And if you've ever purchased an $8 bag of cotton candy at the state fair, you’ll also understand why you might not care that it's a lot of puffed up air.

Sometimes, you just want something sweet. Nettspend, née Gunner Shepardson (born in Richmond, VA, circa 2007), first rose to prominence in late 2023 partly because he was cliqued up with NOVAGANG and 1c34 and partly because he was a white boy with baby-face rapping about lean.

He's since gone from looking like a comic-relief character on a Disney Channel sitcom to Sky Ferreira's little brother, or 2Hollis's mini-me, or perhaps Legolas as dressed by Hedi Slimane.