MOD SUN

Born Derek Smith in Bloomington, Minnesota, Smith changed his first name to Dylan after turning 18, and adopted the moniker MOD SUN shortly afterwards. The performer’s earliest musical excursion came playing drums in the post-hardcore band Four Letters Lie, where he remained until 2009. That year he joined the band Scary Kids Scaring Kids as the drummer, where he was given the creative freedom to pursue his own interests and debuted MOD SUN as a opening act. It was therefore natural for Smith to continue to performing as MOD SUN following Scary Kids Scaring Kids’ disbandment in 2010.

The rapper’s debut release was the mixtape “I’ll Buy Myself” in 2009, followed by the subsequent mixtapes “Let Ya Teeth Show” and “How to Make A MOD SUN”. The following year, significantly raising MOD SUN’s profile, the rapper issued the EP “The Hippy Hop” and the single “Need That”. 2011 proved a busy year for the rising star with the release of the EP “In MOD We Trust”, the mixtapes “Health, Wealth, Success, & Happiness” and “Blazed By The Bell”, as well as the single “Paradisity”. In collaboration with The Ready Set, MOD SUN issued the single “All Night, Every Night” in 2012, which was succeeded by the EP “Hippy As Fuck” later that year. After another busy year in 2013, MOD SUN signed with Rostrum Records in 2014 who issued the hippy-hop rapper’s debut full-length album “Look Up” in March 2015.