Lucy Bedroque on his rap name, working with prettifun, and Unmusique

Lucy Bedroque is part of a broader wave of rappers and producers whose work straddles the line between hip-hop and electronic music. Alongside friends and collaborators Slayr, prettifun, and ezcodylee, I’ve begun to think of his recent output as part of a digicore resurgence (though I think he’d likely object to my categorization). When I talked to d0llywood1 back in 2024, she’d explained to me that digicore is more than just loud synths and loud bass – the Louisiana rapper sees personal lyrics and emo vocal inflections as critical to the sound, and all of these artists seem laser focused on ensuring their emotionally-charged lyrics feel just as titanic as their 808s.

Bedroque’s earlier output as lostrushi, and even under his current moniker, had more of a plunderphonics ethos, stitching together disparate elements with the same whiplash aplomb as The Avalanches or Jim Legxacy. But he’s at Rolling Loud this weekend on the back of Unmusique, a brutally hard-hitting digicore record that could give any rage rapper a run for their money. From “G6 Anthem” to “Ouija,” these songs aim to scramble your brainwaves and detonate moshpits. Marking the weight of the breakthrough moment, prettifun and Jack Zebra slide through for features, and Che’s go-to guy Gavin Matson did the video for “2010 Justin Bieber.”

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Though Lucy tells me he felt fans of his previous music would consider Unmusique “bullshit,” you could trace threads of his current oeuvre back to his earlier eras. I’m partial to “FIRST ROUND PICK (BESIDE ME),” a late 2023 freestyle over “I’ma Boss” by Meek Mill, where Lucy’s autotune cadences stack atop each other into a harmonious cacophony: in that song’s carefully layered melodies and elements, I can see some of the bombastic maximalism that sculpted Unmusique.

The FADER caught up with Lucy Bedroque backstage at Rolling Loud 2026 to chat about choosing his rap name, working with prettifun and egobreak, and an upcoming song sampling Deadmau5.

The FADER: Can you tell us about the first song you ever made?
Lucy Bedroque: I produced my first song back in 2019. 2018, I started producing for the first time. My first ever song with vocals was on my SoundCloud for a bit. It’s archived somewhere, from 2020.

You used to go by lostrushi, now you’re Lucy Bedroque. Can you talk to me about choosing those names?
So Lucy is always the name that I’ve gone with as my persona. Bedroque, or Bedrock, comes from this brand I fuck with. There’s meaning behind it, it’s a lot to get into [laughs]. But it’s a mix of both, and I think Lucy and Bedroque matched together very well.

Speaking of fashion, you’re wearing a great fit today, from the Chrome [Hearts] glasses down. Can you walk us through your outfit?
Tripp jacket – no idea what this belt is, my girlfriend gave it to me. Calm little chain, Calvin Klein boxers, Yasiyuki [Ishii] jeans, you know. Some gum.

If you could give me some style advice, what would you tell me?
Do what you think makes sense in your eye; don't listen to what anybody else tells you. Or just be inspired you know, there's nothing wrong with being inspired at all.

Your album last year Unmusique was incredible. Talk to us about the title.
At the time I was making the project and released it, I definitely strayed away from my general sound. I hopped on some more producers’ shit because a lot of the shit I did before was self-prod and I wanted to hop on some other shit. So it was straying away from my norm and a lot of people I don’t think would have fucked with it because it was like new and they probably think it’s bullshit. Hence, Unmusique – it’s like, not music.

I wanted to ask you about collaborating with prettifun on “Ultraviolet.” Can you walk me through how that song came together?
He was a planned feature for that mixtape. My friend egobreak sent me this beat with 9lives and I was like, damn this is it. Then I was like, bro, I need Mikey [pretti] on this shit, because all three of us, me Chris [egobreak] and Mikey, we got this thing called ROYGBIV. And we’re all friends, it’s all like real life shit, so it’s meant to be an experience for us. Really I sent it to him, he sent it back, and it’s history bro.

Are you guys gonna drop that joint tape or keep pumpfaking?
Both!

I heard you and Ilykimchi have a song together?
Yeah, prod both of us. We sampled fucking Deadmau5 on some shit.

How can I LARP more this summer?
You don't. You just don't.

What's the song of the summer if it's not a song by you?
Song of the summer if it's not by me… Oh, that's a good question. “Party At My Place” by Xaviersobased, probably. It’s just good for its time, definitely very summer song.

What's one question we should ask the next person we interview?
[long pause] Fuck, I don't know. [laughs]

Thirteendegrees asked, “why did you unfollow me? And then we had to ask it to somebody who didn't even follow him.
Shit, double it, give it to the next person. I'll say the same thing. I don't know who's gonna be, but the next person probably doesn't even follow me! I can’t ask you anything really. How do you feel about Rolling Loud this year? Some basic shit.

TiaCorine wanted us to ask your favorite Pokemon.
I’m divided between Piplup and Oshawott.