The Story of Based Lychee
Da Don Of London. A rapper who sounds like London traffic at 2am: trap drums, hyperpop static and a bassline that's been up since the start of the session.
The sound
Based Lychee doesn't stay in one lane. One bar is grime, the next is drill, and hyperpop glitches through the whole thing underneath. Every track sits somewhere between a flex and a fever dream: money talk, bitcoin talk and cat talk, pitched up and pushed through a wall of distortion until it turns lychee-pink.
The latest album is DA DON OF LONDON (2026), out now on Spotify, Apple Music and everywhere else, with music videos on YouTube for the title track, "Falling" and "Based and Schizophrenic".
The crew
No feature is off limits. Based Lychee has put out songs alongside a run of names from the underground, and the list keeps growing:
Based Lychee is also part of the rap group BeetleSync YungBludz.
- Smokedope2016A song together: Wetpack
- Yung SimmieA song together
- RubenslikkTwo songs together
- NosgovTwo songs together
- AcidSouljahLoads of songs together
- ThreeborgProduced "Look How She Goes"
The lore
Based Lychee is the god of cats and teddies, and two cats supervise every session. The hashtags are #BASED, #LYCHEEGOD, #420 and #BITCOIN, and they're not a joke, they're the brief. It's rapper first, chaos second, and based since day one.
Work with Based Lychee
Looking for a verse, a feature, a live show or a track for your film, game or video? Pick the one that fits and the email is half-written for you.