Effin grew up in Virginia and moved to LA to train at Icon Collective, refining a sound built on hard-hitting drums and meticulous sound design rather than raw aggression alone.
Cheap Thrills, his 2023 debut album, established that approach, and Daydreams, the 2025 follow-up, kept building on it — tracks like "Playtime" on Disciple Recordings and "Horseplay," a collaboration with Jiqui on Deadbeats, spread his catalog across Sable Valley, Create Music Group, and Deadbeats alike, evidence of a producer building relationships across several corners of bass music rather than anchoring to one scene or crew.