Future Focus: Feng and Jai'Len Josey
FFO: being a weekend rockstar, 2hollis, Victoria Monét, and serial romantics.
Feng: The UK underground’s most buzzing rapstar
The UK has always known how to pioneer new spaces in music. In recent years, UK garage and drum & bass have had their moment, but now, the underground rap scene is buzzing with stars like Feng.
Travas Feneley, better known as Feng, is the 19-year-old phenomenon who taught himself how to produce, write, mix, and engineer pretty much everything himself. He’s part of the emerging wave of UK rap stars that includes Fakemink and EsDeeKid. Somehow, with just 16 minutes of music across his early project What The Feng, he made waves in the scene, garnering acclaim from Pitchfork, The FADER, Interview, and Complex.
While his U.K. peers lean into darker, dystopian sounds, Feng brings an optimistic, ambitious energy to the space, calling himself a “colorful rebel.” His debut album Weekend Rockstar (out via his own label Regularisperfect) features insanely addictive tracks like “XOXO” that you can’t help but dance and sing along to.
Feng’s career is just beginning, and it’s taking off incredibly fast. Between festival appearances, his insane invite-only parties, and energetic tracks, it’s hard not to get hooked. Tap into this emerging star before he becomes unavoidable.
Industry takes:
Starting his first-ever global “Weekend Rockstar” tour this Spring
Was named The FADER’s “Artists to Watch in 2026”
Has his own homegrown creative collective and label Regularisperfect
1.6M monthly listeners on Spotify
Made his U.S. festival debut at Rolling Loud Orlando in May
Jai’Len Josey is the serial romantic R&B didn’t know it was waiting for
by Safira Khan
There’s a specific feeling I chase when I discover a new artist. It’s that moment where one song pulls you in so deep, you end up forty minutes into a discography you didn’t know existed an hour ago. Jai’Len Josey did that to me with her confident, fluorescent single “Housewife.”
I had the pleasure of coordinating a press conference for her, and she is exactly who her music says she is: warm, magnetic, and completely sure of herself. East Atlanta roots, a Broadway past, and her instinct for melody hits so much harder when you realize she’s been building towards this since she was writing songs between matinee shows, even going as far as skipping lunch in her dressing room just to lay down her song ideas.
Her debut album Serial Romantic, released by Def Jam Recordings, is nothing short of a project which moves through love the way you live it. We go from the flirty rush of “Housewife,” to crushing heartbreak in tracks like “Love Ain’t Shit.” Finally, she closes the project with an ode to self-love in “I Believe (Selfish)”, a track she produced on her own (talk about having the last word).
Although the entire project is unskippable, my favorite lines have to be from that closing track: I believe all the love I have to give, I should leave some for me. Serial Romantic isn’t solely a breakup album. It’s an album about coming back to yourself, and that alone makes this project timeless.
Industry takes:
Named one of Spotify’s Artists to Watch for 2026 and Billboard’s March R&B Rookie of the Month
Co-wrote Ari Lennox’s platinum-certified “Pressure” — the track that landed her a deal with Def Jam
Writing credits for Rod Wave, Armani White, Xavier Omär, and others
Theater credits include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical and The Secret Life of Bees
Serial Romantic is exec-produced by Tricky Stewart, with contributions from The-Dream and Leon Thomas