Powfu
Canadian rapper/songwriter/producer Powfu went viral with a style of melancholic, lo-fi songcraft that was sad, nostalgic, and sweet in equal parts. His song "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)" sampled British singer Beabadoobee's lo-fi acoustic tune "Coffee" and met with unexpectedly massive success, being streamed hundreds of millions of times and reaching number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its parent EP, Poems of the Past, bolstered by an appearance from blink-182, topped the publication's Heatseekers chart. He continued releasing additional EPs and albums like 2022's Surrounded by Hounds and Serpents.
Powfu was born Isaiah Faber in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1999. He began sharing his songs online as early as 2018, tending toward lo-fi hip-hop beats and sad, piano-driven instrumentals as the backdrop for his singing and rapping about relationships, breakups, emotional struggles, and bittersweet memories. These tracks were often released as singles, and sometimes Powfu collected several songs at once in a series of EPs titled Some Boring, Love Stories. It was his song "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)," released in January 2020, that pushed his rising fame into full bloom, with its video streamed millions of times in a matter of months. The song grew exponentially when it was released as a commercial single with an upgraded video, and Powfu signed on with Columbia Records. "Death Bed" led off Poems of the Past, his first EP for Columbia, which also included a remix of the song featuring blink-182. He rounded out his banner year with a smattering of additional singles including "When the Hospital Was My Home" featuring Rxseboy, which appeared on Some Boring Love Stories, Pt. 5.
The EPs Drinking Under the Streetlights and Tell Me Your Feelings and I Won't Tell You Mine appeared in 2021. Surrounded by Hounds and Serpents followed in 2022.
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death bed (coffee for your head)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Columbia on 8 Feb 2020
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fault in the stars
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 17 Oct 2023
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surrounded by hounds and serpents
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 2 Dec 2022
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Flooding the Gates
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 30 Jun 2023
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poems of the past
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Columbia on 15 May 2020
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tell me your feelings and i won't tell you mine
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 8 Oct 2021
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some boring love stories pt 5
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 20 Nov 2020
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tell me your feelings and i won't tell you mine pt. 2
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 31 Mar 2023
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digital crush
Alternative & Indie - Released by Powfu Productions on 12 Jan 2024
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some boring love stories, pt. 4
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Powpow on 12 Nov 2019
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watch me miss
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 23 Sep 2022
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drinking under the streetlights
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 4 Jun 2021
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drinking under the streetlights
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 4 Jun 2021
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the way that you see me
Powfu, Rxseboy, Sarcastic Sounds
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 19 Feb 2021
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draw you inside my book
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 8 Apr 2022
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poems of the past
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Columbia on 29 May 2020
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Alienated
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tongue Tied Records on 12 Nov 2021
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i hate waking up
Alternative & Indie - Released by Columbia on 14 Oct 2022
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