Latest single
Dust It Off
Fall down seven times, get up eight. The comeback record — golden dust, sunrise through the storm.
the story
Built from the pain, not in spite of it
QuanZoRelly is a melodic trap and pain-rap artist out of Norfolk, Virginia — half-sung, half-rapped, all the way honest. His pen is dense with punchlines and internal rhymes, but the engine underneath is real life: he lost his mother at six years old, and that loss runs through everything he writes.
Two names sit at the heart of everything he makes. His mother, Lashawn Trenise Alston Dunn, died when he was six years old. His son, Jaiden Lashawn Alston, was stillborn while QuanZoRelly was still in the 12th grade. He carries both of them into every record — they are who he builds for, and Same Pain is their story as much as his.
The sound is dark piano, hard-hitting 808s, and a confessional delivery that flips from soulful singing to a drill-attack flow without warning. His signature ad-lib — a soulful “Oooue eeeh” — is the sound of somebody who felt all of it and kept going anyway. Diamonds on him water-wet: that's aquarium.
In October 2026 he took his run to the Orbiit Timbaland Search Contest and climbed to the top of his Wild Card group before finishing 3rd when the votes closed. Weeks later, his nine-track album Same Pain was submitted for worldwide release — his words, his voice, his story, with every song registered to him as a BMI songwriter.
— QuanZoRelly
- BornFebruary 12 · Aquarius
- FromNorfolk, VA — the 757
- SoundMelodic trap · Pain rap
- Signature“Oooue eeeh”
- Latest albumSame Pain (2026)
- AffiliationBMI songwriter
- Contest runOrbiit Timbaland Search — Wild Card finalist
- Latest singleDust It Off
in his own words
Music Has been my passion since I was 6 year old lil boy. You can't put me in a category because music is in me, it's my remediation to express whatever it is I feel, go through, think about. It's my way of talking even if no one is listening. My music Is original through my versatility and lyrical substance. Im into real music you can feel.
Im Not A Rapper I'm an Artist !!
— QuanZoRelly
Moneybagz Zo · the story
This is the part that made the music — the names, the losses, all of it true, all of it carried. Everything on this page is built on it. Read it slow.
