Young Meepa is a genre-bending force born out of chaos, resilience, and a lifetime of refusing to fit neatly into any box. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Meepa’s name was born in the Chicago punk scene, where friends joked he resembled a meek little chick emoji 🐣 a nickname that eventually evolved into “Meepa,” and later, “Young Meepa.”
Before music became his anchor, Meepa lived the raw reality that many only read about. As an oogle a traveling crust punk he hopped freight trains, panhandled, and drifted between Detroit, Bloomington, Dayton, and Chicago. He squatted abandoned buildings on the West Side while battling heroin and fentanyl addiction, surviving some of the darkest moments of his life. Those experiences didn’t break him; they carved the voice he carries today. Now based on Chicago’s South Side, Meepa lives openly as a queer artist with his fiancé, often surprising people who assume someone with face tattoos and a hardened past couldn’t possibly fit that narrative.
But Young Meepa has never fit anyone’s narrative but his own.
Musically, Meepa is the product of a life lived at extremes. His sound blends crust punk, black metal, folk influences, trap, drill, R&B, and the aggression of artists like N.W.A, Ghostemane, and City Morgue. It’s a raw, unfiltered mash-up of everything he’s lived through gritty, emotional, sarcastic, and brutally honest. Punk, hip-hop, and alternative subcultures have always felt interconnected to him, and his music follows that instinct with no rules and no apologies.
His debut release, MXTPE #1 (spelled intentionally wrong) introduced listeners to his universe with the single “BCA (Bug Chasers Anonymous)” a shock-the-system track that uses extreme storytelling as commentary, not confession. Like much of Meepa’s work, the song is less about glorification and more about exposing the strange, dark corners of culture and warning people to stay aware, grounded, and alive.
Young Meepa’s second project, MXTPE #2: MISANTHROPY, drops December 4th at midnight under a full Gemini moon. The title reflects a lifetime of trusting too deeply, being hurt too often, and wrestling with the tension between hating humanity and still trying to find the good in it. The lead single, “Blood and Semen (I Hate Police)”, is a cathartic expression of rage built from real experiences navigating homelessness, street life, and a system that actively targets people like him. It’s violent, dark, and intentionally exaggerated an artistic release, not a threat rooted in the very real trauma of being treated as disposable.
Every Young Meepa track is autobiographical at its core. He writes, produces, engineers, and performs everything himself. He plays every instrument, programs every beat, and has been creating music since age six. While he’s open to future collaborations especially with powerful women artists and Chicago creators Meepa’s work so far has been entirely his own, with occasional creative input from his fiancé, Philippe22.
Young Meepa’s art lives in the blurred line between tragedy and sarcasm a place where life is a dark joke, but still worth making something out of. His sound is hard to define, landing somewhere between trap, drill, punk, metal, experimental rap, and R&B. What ties it all together is the honesty: the pain, the survival, the humor, and the refusal to sanitize reality.
Raw. Unpolished. Unpredictable.
Young Meepa isn’t here to fit into the music industry he’s here to rip a hole in it.
