Rapper TisaKorean is known for his lax flow and comic wordplay. He reached an audience far beyond his native Houston area in 2018 with "Dip," a track featuring his jabbing rhymes and stark, almost tinny production style. Its viral success led to a brief major-label affiliation and, more noticeably, a collaboration with Chance the Rapper ("Groceries"), followed by Wasteland., a 2020 album for the Ultra label. Since then, he has been behind the typically whimsical efforts mr.siLLyfLow and Let Me Update My Status, mixtapes respectively issued in 2021 and 2023.

Before he became known for his own music, TisaKorean, born Domonic Patten in Houston, was a dancer and DJ. He started producing tracks in 2017 and made some headway with the guttural and ringing "Werkkk." Soon after came the wilder and similarly terse "Dip," which took off in 2018, as it was swept up in the "Woah" dance craze. Tisa, who hadn't intended to tap into the dance-rap zeitgeist, continued to crank out more singles and signed a partnership deal with Atlantic. The association proved to be short-lived, but it didn't slow him down. In 2019, he issued the full-length A Guide to Being a Partying Freshman and an EP entitled Soapy Club, and between their release dates, he was featured on Chance the Rapper's "Groceries." At the end of 2020, he offered the full-length Wasteland., highlighted by "The Mop," one of his leanest and most popular singles. In October 2021, the EP-length pResiLLy heralded mr.siLLyfLow, a full-length that arrived only a couple days later and spawned the prodding track "Watermelon Hero." A smattering of stray singles and an appearance on Don Toliver's Top Ten album Love Sick preceded the March 2023 arrival of Let Me Update My Status. Fanciful supplemental tracks like "Rando," "1500 Shorty," and "TTU" were out before the end of the year. ~ Andy Kellman