ARTIST: Payton
RELEASE DATE: September 20th, 2020
LABEL La Familia
RECORDED 2014-2020
GENRE: Urbano Latino, Latin Pop, Rap, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton
PRODUCER: Payton Rodriguez (exec.), Ricky Reed, A-Beatz, Nineteen85, Willy William,
Cool & Dre, Evidence, SHB, A.CHAL, Steve Lean, Sky & Mosty, C.P Dubb, 1Mind, DJ Rashai,
AXL Beats, Chris Jeday, Harmony Samuels, Subelo NEO, Jimmy Joker
BackgroundPayton Season is the anticipated full length studio album by Puerto-Rican rapper and recording artist Payton Rodriguez, known mononymously as Payton. The album is set to be released via La Familia, Payton's founded and current management and record label on. The album will impact digital retailers on August 24th, 2020 as the first official album by the Latin rapper. "Payton Season" includes production from Ricky Reed, A-Beatz, Nineteen85, Willy William, Cool & Dre, Evidence, SHB, A.CHAL, Steve Lean, Sky & Mosty, C.P Dubb, 1Mind, DJ Rashai, AXL Beats, Chris Jeday, Harmony Samuels, Subelo NEO and Jimmy Joker with Payton serving as the album's executive producer. Aside from production collaborations, Payton Season also features collaborations with MattY, Kidd Amaze and Liyah, Reuben Rodriguez, Anaisz, Jazmine, JT Rodriguez.
2014-2015"Payton Season" officially started when a 15 year old Payton uploaded a track entitled "Bend Ova Miss" onto the internet. The track, which depicted a boy singing rather suggestive and in many eyes full on provocative lyrics about a teacher hit YouTube like a bomb. Out of no where, Payton had become the talk of the town as the song was viewed over 7 million times as people instantly started forming opinions about the 15 year old. The opinionated views got so bad that Payton even began receiving death threats over the song. Despite the backlash, Payton had picked up a nice amount of supporters and the track even set a platform for Payton to officially start a career, Bend Ova Miss was never sent to radio or iTunes but was played he track was played on mainstream radio stations without any payola due to its shock value. Bend Ova Miss's official release will come with the release of Payton Season, giving fans the chance for the first time to download the song.
Since Bend Over Miss, Payton had been in the studio working on new music and was set to release his debut single months after Bend Ova Miss was released, but unfortunately the rappers Uncle, Eddie Rodriguez tragically passed away in a car accident in Camuy, Puerto Rico just two days after Christmas. Due to the tragedy, Payton stopped any and all recording and pushed back the date of the single until further notice to mourn the loss of his late uncle who he shared a close relationship with. Payton even went on to get a tattoo on his arm in remembrance of him. In late January of 2015, Payton reentered the studio to continue recording his project, one in which he has been very tight lipped about.
Soon after, Player No More was released as the first official single by Payton from Payton Season that following Payton's much talked about breakthrough and unofficial record, Bend Over Miss. Player No More also featured a rap verse from rap artist Liyah and was produced by Ricky Reed. Payton first penned the track on November of 2014, looking to make a club banger to follow up after Bend Over Miss. After meeting up with Ricky Reed and recording the track along, Payton realized that the song would be even better if a rap verse was included. After scoping different artists, it came down to Chloe or Liyah. In the end, Payton went with Liyah and contacted her people in hopes for a collaboration. At the time, Payton had been buzzing about in the industry and Liyah was very impressed with the record and accepted. Days later Liyah sent back her verse and the track was mixed and finalized and was ready for release. Reaching as high as #2 on the Airplay Charts and #2 on the Digital Charts. The song also topped the Urban Airplay charts for three weeks.
2015-2019Just a few weeks later, Payton appeared on a popular interview TV show and he began rapping, revealing another skill that people (at the time) didn't known he possessed and later, dropped a snippet of a new song "Tom Ford" that also appears in full on the Payton Season album, the snippet was was critically acclaimed for being a hardhitting rap record that re-introduced Payton to the industry as a serious competitor, as said by Kelly Anne Johnson of RapUp. That wasn't all for Payton however, he was also featured artist on Carmen's hit 2015 debut single "Do It Right". For the rest of 2015, if Payton wasn't causing twitter riffs with fellow musicians due to his outspoken nature or controversially announcing his relationship with Andrea who he has quite an age difference with; while the artist was continuing writing and recording for the album. After entering the studio with producer Nineteen85, they began writing and recording together for the project. The young star exclaimed that he wanted a sound that could pertain to his audience that has definitely changed over time
In late 2015, Payton contacted returning rap icon Matt Young on the record and Kidd Amaze for a song called "At The Top". Payton sent the songs out to both rappers in October of 2015, hoping that they would respond to the collaboration. TJ Cousins, also known as Kidd Amaze, replied just a few hours later accepting the collaboration, as did Young a few days later. The rappers got to work on their respectful verses as did Payton for his final verse on the song. Kidd Amaze sent back his recorded verse just two days later. Matt Young did the same by weeks end and the song was released in the early months of 2016. "At The Top" became a success, peaking at #1 on the charts and having a long run on the charts, all the while giving Payton a chance to shine alongside rap greats. To this day, many argue that Payton had the best verses on the song. Over the next year, Payton remained in the public eye while recording "Payton Season, whilst entering the studio with record producers like Ricky Reed, Nineteen85, A-Beatz, Willy William, Ricky Reed, A-Beatz, Nineteen85, Willy William, Cool & Dre, Evidence just to name a few in order to create the initial sound that would be presented in the album.
Payton had to once again postpone the official announcement of Payton Season in the first half of 2017 so he could take part in 6th season of Celebrity Big Brother in which he won. He was official crowned the winner on July 30th, 2017. And wasted no time on releasing the next official single from Payton Season. On July 31st, just a day after being crowned the winner of CBB, Payton released Anarchy which saw Payton toughening up his sound and really showing off his hispanic roots with this purposely throwback feel of the song and intertwining it within the single for the first time, really giving people the direction Payton has adopted since entering the music industry. In January of 2019, Payton was featured on a Suzie's #1 single, "Dirty Little Things and then one year later, featured on Brittany Knox's "Faces", which also reached the summit of the chart.
Album Finalization and Composition
2019-2020Payton was also featured on the remix to his signed artist, Tika May's on her debut single remix of "Ready to Fly". After the remix was released, Payton took the next three months to finalize his album. He entered the studio with his cousins Reuben Rodriguez and JT Rodriguez in 2020 so they lend vocals on the tracks "On My Own" and the albums closing track "Overdose" respectively. Payton also entered the studio La Familia signed artist Jazmine on the song "Got Me Feelin Like". In July of 2020 while in Liverpool rehearsing for the Fan Choice Awards, Payton put the final touches of his album together, which included entering the studio with Anaisz to record the song "Mami" together. This was the last track recorded for the album. After all tracks were completed, the album was mixed and mastered and officially announced on August 11th, 2020.
Payton Season is an album that includes the genre's of Urbano Latino, Latin Pop, Rap, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton and pop just to name a few. The album delves into a barrage of different topics including sex, drugs, money, partying, girls, success, and the come up; among other others in which Payton raps on the 12 track album that features a 'Parental Advisory' tag on the album cover. Payton Season offer different shades of the charismatic rapper, and highlights some early moments of the stars career, allowing listeners to experience early musical moments of Payton but hear his growth musically as he went from a fresh faced pop rapper to a well known rapper that's unapologetic and multifaceted right before our eyes. The album features some moments of reflection (on the tracks "On My Own" and "Overdose") but with tracks such as "At The Top", "Mami", "Got Me Feelin Like", and more, it seems as if there are no dull moment on this rappers fun full length album"
SINGLES At The Top (feat. Kidd Amaze & Matt Young)#1 [Peak][2,767,982+] Anarchy #1 [Peak] GOOFY #2 [Peak]
T R A C K L I S T
1. ANARCHY
2. ON MY WAY (FT. REUBEN RODRIGUEZ)
3. PLAYER NO MORE (FT. LIYAH)
4. LOUD
5. AT THE TOP (FT. MATT YOUNG & KIDD AMAZE)
6. MAMI (FT. ANAÍSZ)
7. STACKZ
8. ALL AH DAT
9. GOT ME FEELIN' LIKE (FT. JAZMINE)
10. GOOFY
11. OVERDOSE (FT. JT RODRIGUEZ)