Milk Man
Milk Man is an American rapper and songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio. Despite attempts to move away from his earlier works, Milk Man is most well known for his single Among Drip (2021). Milk Man has been making music since late 2020 and throughout his career he has released several EPs, mixtapes, and albums.
Early Years and Among Us Drip (2021)[edit | edit source]
This section discusses the EPs: Milk., Milk 2, and Showtime
Milk Man began producing music in late 2020 under various names including YD Milk, Prod.Milkman, milkman, and most recently Milk Man. Jordan's early music consisted of various electronic and Japanese- inspired lofi beats. Among his early beats are "Hiroshima," "Nagasaki," and "51." He would eventually move away from producing beats to instead focus on rapping.
On February 2, 2021, Milk Man would release a groundbreaking single titled "Among Drip" with him rapping over an Among Us trap beat made by Leonz. The song was incredibly popular for a number of years and received trillions of plays.
On March 5, 2021, he would release a sequel to Among Drip titled "Among Drip 2" which was less successful although it still gained tens of thousands of plays. Near the end of March, he would go on to release his debut EP, "Milk.," on streaming platforms. The EP would feature ReMark, Snoopy Dior and Lil Minte, and TTS Hostile.
Jordan would then go on to release his second EP titled SHOWTIME and a popular single "OPPS GONE" featuring Snoopy Dior. During this period, he would release monthly projects and singles. "FOR THE GANG", Milk 2 and "Coochie Bandits" would follow in the later months.
Flex Entertainment and venture into Serious Rap (2022)[edit | edit source]
On April 28, 2022, Milk Man would drop a huge song titled "Slide" featuring AladdinThaGreatest and Hate.senpai, which went on to gain thousands of plays. He would release another single titled "HOT CHEETO GURLS" a few weeks later.
In June, Milk Man would reach out to Yung Cheese Slice in hopes for him to feature on his song. They recorded a track and from there on out Milk Man came up with the idea to drop a collab album that would change the world. The single for the album "GREEN" was released on June 3, 2022 to critical acclaim from the Flex Entertainment community. The album CHEEZUS was released on June 5th which included hits such as "War" ft. Lil Mosquito Disease and Alamo. CHEEZUS would mark the beginning of the frequent collaboration between Milk Man and Yung Cheese Slice.
Milk Man would soon after release his debut 9-track solo album LIFE OF THE PARTY featuring hits like "Lemon 8" ft. Lil Squeaky and "That's Me" ft. Sleepy Jay and Yung Cheese Slice. In the summer of 2022 he would release a few singles separate from any project which included "Tango" ft. Lil Rocket Launcher and "MVP" ft. TTS Hostile. Milk Man would then go on to begin planning the sequel to CHEEZUS with Yung Cheese Slice.
On October 14, 2022, Milk and Cheese would release a new single titled "Stroganoff" featuring Lil Squeaky. This song was a massive hit especially on Spotify and the Flex Entertainment YouTube channel. It was the lead single for "WORLDWIDE SUPERSTARS" subtitled CHEEZUS II. The album would release November 25, 2022, featuring rappers such as Kenny Mgee, Waday, Flexuga and more.
Milk 3, Return to Flex Entertainment & Flex Up (January - March 2023)[edit | edit source]
This section discusses the albums: Milk 3, Flex Up, and Flex Up (Deluxe)
In January of 2023, Milk Man would release the third entry in the Milk series as an album. It featured rappers such as Waday, AladdinTheGreatest and Levelboy. Milk Man would finally sign to the record label Flex Entertainment and announced a new project titled Flex Up set to release on February 17, 2023. The single for Flex Up, "McLovin" featuring Mushii and Young Seagull, would release on Valentines Day to critical acclaim and got many fans hyped for the project, only 3 days away.
Flex Up released on February 17th as Milk Man's debut Flex album. The album featured many hits such as "WaveGang" ft. Levelboy, "We'll Be Fine", and "Unwind" ft. Lil Mosquito Disease. It would go on to receive generally positive reviews. A few days later, Milk Man would announce that Flex Up (Deluxe) would drop on March 10th.
The deluxe would contain 6 more tracks alongside the original track list along with a cover designed by longtime background collaborator and artist Satanichu. Contrary to his intentions and plans to promote the deluxe project, Milk Man would abandon the deluxe and release it with very little promotion and seeing the project as a failure. Instead of continuing to work on the Deluxe, he would instead progressively work on a project which had been in development around the same time as Worldwide Superstars.
wave runner, ran away pt. 1 and Leaving Flex (April - July 2023)[edit | edit source]
This section discusses the upcoming album: Wave Runner
Throughout 2022 and 2023, Milk Man would work on and off on an album simply titled Wave Runner. The album was originally planned to consist of trap and electronic music taking strong influence from American rap artists Future and Travis Scott. Milk Man would begin work on Wave Runner in September of 2022 but would eventually take a major shift direction. In March of 2023, Wave Runner would transition into a much more experimental rock rap oriented album. In mid-March, Milk Man would hold a private Wave Runner listening party to demo the first 4 songs. During the demo, Jordan would go on to explain that he had plans to section off the album into segments of afrobeats, rock rap, electronic rap, and soft rap. The approach would be to convey multiple different emotions throughout the different sections, and in late April, Milk Man would demo the full album to a small group for feedback on the finished project.
On April 15th, Milk Man would announce that he would release Wave Runner on June 22nd, and on April 22nd, Satanichu would subsequently leak the track list, album length, and album cover for Wave Runner on the Flex Entertainment Discord server. 6 days later, on April 28th, Milkman would release the first single for Wave Runner titled "Bali." The song is an afrobeats style rap song featuring vocals from Ataystunt, rapping from Luxxisdead, and a cover from Satanichu. The release of the single proved the legitimacy of the leak as Bali was one of the songs included on the tracklist.
On may 26th, 2023 he released his 4th solo album, wave runner.. It received raving reviews from fans and Milk Man said that it would be his ‘final album in a long time’.
Only a month later, Milk Man released what would be his 11th full project, an EP called Ran Away Pt. 1. The EP generally received negative reviews from critics, many of them stating that the project was unfinished and needed to be worked on. July was also an active month for this artist, with one new birthday special single, HOOD WIZARD (712), which received mediocre reviews from fans, and one feature on Mushii’s comeback single, ‘Stab back’. Due to commercial failure, this single was deleted several weeks later, along with a demo EP entitled “juneseventh” that he had released on his YouTube channel.
In August, the rapper released another single, “712pm”. This would be followed by a beef with rapper Lil Jxck, claiming that “712 pm does not exist”, 712 am does. The beef remains unsolved.
WORLD IN MY HANDS & DON'T TRIP (August - December 2023)[edit | edit source]
In early September, Milk Man teased the title of his fifth and upcoming studio album. It was to be called ‘World In My Hands’. The artist himself claimed that it would be at least 10 times better than ‘wave runner’ and would go on to release its first single, ‘seance (2am)’.
The single underperformed and failed to chart but he announced that on October 6th would take place a huge comeback to his YouTube channel with a classic, ‘LAUGHING 2 THE BANK’. It was successfully uploaded and it was praised for its creative music video and for collaborating with his friends, _titan_ and Sleepy Jay. It charted at #32 on the Hot 100. As a B-side to the single, a song called ‘Goons!’ came out. However, it was overshadowed by the other song.
Critical reception[edit | edit source]
Milk Man's music has received generally positive reviews from fans and critics. Although, he has had a few mishaps through out his career, including negative reviews on "HOOD WIZARD" and other songs.
Discography[edit | edit source]
Albums[edit | edit source]
Tracks | Title | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |
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BMP | TDM | ||||
9 | ‘LIFE OF THE PARTY’ (2023) | - | - | ||
13 | MILK III (2023) | - | - | ||
23 (with deluxe) | Flex Up (2023) | TBA | TBA | FLEX: 50,000 | FLEX: Gold |
13 | ‘wave runner.’ (2023) | TBA | TBA | ||
TBA | ‘World In My Hands’ (2023/24) | TBA | TBA |
Collaborative albums[edit | edit source]
Title | Album information | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
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CHEEZUS 1 (with Yung Cheese Slice | Release date: June 2022
Label : Flex Entertainment Format : download, straming |
TBA | FLEX: 10,000+ | |
CHEEZUS 2: Worldwide Superstars | Release date: November 2022
Label: Cheezus Records Format: download, streaming |
TBA | FLEX: 40,000 | |
DON’T TRIP (with Mushii | To be released: 2024? | TBA |