Louisville artist, barber, and all-around creative Vibe Like Ty pulls up to the OddPod with Marc and Pod Rashid for a two-hour conversation that lives up to the name. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Ty moved to Louisville around age five and found her musical footing at Western Middle School for the Performing Arts — going from a Michael Jackson-obsessed dancer to writing her first rap remixes off Cash Money and Drake records at the lunch table.
Ty's come-up story is one of those slow burns that makes sense in hindsight. Poetry slams her mom signed her up for in high school turned into open mics. A homecoming performance at her old middle school went viral in the streets. Basement freestyles posted once a week built a buzz that eventually put her in rooms she never imagined. Ten years in the game, and she's just now hitting her stride.
Her catalog tells the full story — and the thing about Ty is her EPs never miss. Every project she steps out with delivers, which makes each new one an event. But her latest run of singles — Patience, You, and Dog Me — might be the best music she's ever made. Sharp, confident, and fully herself, they signal exactly where she's headed with the new EP on the way.
That new project is fully self-produced, thematic, with a rollout already in motion and a title she's keeping close to the chest. In 2026, Ty made a decision: master producing first, then engineering, until she can do everything herself. She's documenting the whole journey through a V-log series that Marc says genuinely inspired him. When you see the changes she's teasing, she says, just know the EP is right behind them.
What makes this episode special is how multidimensional Ty comes across. She's a licensed barber who taught herself to cut hair after a traumatic lineup incident involving her stepdad, a pressure point, and a trip to the ER. She's an avid baller who plays like she's Kobe on a good day. She's a wrestling head who watched WrestleMania both nights and had opinions. She plays PSP daily. And underneath all of it is a Virgo who's laid back until she isn't — and when she finally channels that energy into the music, the results speak for themselves.
Follow her everywhere at @vibe.like.ty and go stream Patience, You, and Dog Me right now.

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Louisville artist, producer, and quiet force 7eventray pulls up to the OddPod for episode 20 with Marc and Pod Rashid — and the timing couldn't be more perfect. His new project Louder in Silence just dropped April 14th, and this episode doubles as the unofficial listening party.
7eventray grew up in Louisville as the middle child of five, with five more siblings on his dad's side. He attended four different high schools — Eastern, Atherton, Liberty, and Aarons — before life intervened. When his mother got sick around 2014-2015, he stepped away from school to be there for her. She passed in 2016, and it took him years to process that loss and find his footing. Getting his GED recently wasn't just a milestone — it was something he did in honor of her, because she never got to finish hers.
As a kid, 7eventray was so quiet his middle school classmates thought he was mute. That silence, though, wasn't emptiness — it was observation. It fed everything. His music taste reflects that depth: J. Cole's Friday Night Lights first got him writing, but his influences stretch from A Tribe Called Quest and Gil Scott-Heron to Linkin Park, All American Rejects, Tina Marie, Curtis Mayfield, and even French cosmic jazz band Cortex. He's been making beats seriously for years — at one point cranking out seven beats a day — and produced the majority of Louder in Silence himself, with mixing handled by collaborator Tay Beats.
The album name is personal. 7eventray talks openly about how growing up quiet made people underestimate him — assume he was a pushover, or simply invisible. But silence was never weakness. It was strategy. The opener "Button Mashing" sets the tone perfectly, built around the idea of whether we're actually playing life the right way or just pressing buttons and hoping something works.
He's also a core member of Hxndsxght — a collective of producers and artists, including June DeWayne, quietly building one of the most interesting sounds in Louisville right now. The conversation also touches on his name change from LaTray to 7eventray after a drill rapper with the same name started flooding his streaming pages. Seven has always been his number — and now it's his name.
Louder in Silence is out now on all streaming platforms. Follow him at @7eventray and go check out the project.

Gary, Indiana native and Louisville transplant June DeWayne pulls up to the OddPod with Marc and Pod Rashid for a long overdue conversation — third time was definitely the charm. Known for his silky melodic delivery, saucy flows, and a catalog that hits different no matter the mood, June DeWayne is one of Louisville's most interesting artists flying under the radar. Not for long.

Born and raised in Gary — home of Freddie Gibbs and the Jacksons — June grew up close to Chicago, shaped by military parents who ran a disciplined household in a rough environment. That push-pull between stability and the streets is woven into everything he does. He moved to Louisville at 14, finished high school here, planted roots, and never left. He considers it a blessing.

Musically, June was a sponge from day one. He started writing at 13, inspired by J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive, studying rap all the way back to De La Soul and Sugar Hill Gang before finding his way to his own melodic lane. His early rap names — Rula T (courtesy of a battle rap app) and Kid 90s — didn't stick, but June DeWayne did. The name came simply from combining his birth month with his middle name, and now even his own mother calls him June.

The conversation digs into how June really found his sound: daily studio sessions at 400 Recording, a chance meeting with producer Tay Beats, and an obsessive study of what makes a lyric actually hit — not just what's said, but why it makes you feel something. His latest project JD Cooper takes its name from D.B. Cooper, the infamous 70s hijacker who parachuted off a plane with a bag of cash and vanished. June saw poetry in that — the plane imagery, the disappearing act, the perfectly executed move. That's his whole thing.

He also shares a heartfelt moment around the Lost in Translation project, named in honor of his friend Jonah Webb who passed away, and talks about a legendary Spike Lee-shot music video that turned into one of the wildest nights of his life — someone jumped off a roof into a pool.

Looking ahead, June has two projects dropping this year: the EP C'est La Vie coming in May (12-13 minutes, intentional, raw, honest) and a full-length project called I Don't Want to Be Perfect dropping in September — an OddPod exclusive reveal. Follow him everywhere at @junedewayne.

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