Art & Identity in New Orleans

$uicideboy$ is hip hop/ horrorcore  duo group created by Aristos “Ruby da Cherry” Petrou and Scott “Slick Sloth” Arcenaux Jr. The group was created in 2014 and both members were born and raised New Orleans. Members $lick $loth and Ruby da Cherry are actually cousins and grew up  close with each other. Before the duo created the group Ruby had decided to stop trying to make a career from joining punk bands and $lick was stopped selling drugs.The name of the group, $uicideboy$, came to be because both Ruby and $lick  made a truce to agree that if their music didn’t blow up by the time they were 30 they would end their lives. For years the group uploaded their music to a streaming site called Soundcloud.  When Suicideboys signed a contract with G59 Records and they released a 21 part series, ‘Kill Yourself’. They later released several EPs from 2014 to 2017. Since then they have been one of the biggest names in underground hip hop.