Dear SilaS
Dear SilaS
Genres: rap, jazz, USA, Hip-Hop, jazz rap
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About Dear SilaS
Silas Stapleton III (born September 9, 1986), known professionally as Dear Silas, is a singer, rapper, and trumpeter from Jackson, Mississippi. For a time he stylized his stage name as SilaS, before adopting the name Dear Silas. The single Gullah Gullah Island, which came out in February 2016, went viral when former NFL player Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson promoted it on his social media. The song imagined an all-black city and celebrated Gullah Geechee culture. It was included on Dear Silas' debut full-length album, The Day I Died, released October 2016. Dear Silas released his second album, The Last Cherry Blossom, on October 19, 2018. The album featured production from Durdy Costello, Flywalker, Swat Team, Professor X, and Hollywood Luck, and appearances by Aha Gazelle, Vitamin Cea, Satchmo Phlanagan, Stephanie Luckett, and Compozitionz. It was while he and his producer/DJ were working at the Genius Bar at an Apple store in Jackson that they conceived the song Skrr Skrr. When released in December 2018, it became the No. 1 Viral Record on Spotify, where it was streamed over 2.6 million times in its first two weeks. The song also entered the Top 40 on iTunes' Hip-Hop/Rap chart. He came to further notice in 2019 when a fan-made version of the "Dexter meme" clip was released in which the Dexter's Laboratory cartoon character is made to sing Skrr Skrr into a girl's ear. In March Vevo presented DSCVR performances of both Skrr Skrr and Under My Feet.
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