Quadeca Talks New Album ‘Vanisher, Horizon Scraper,’ Danny Brown, YouTube Rap, Concept Albums

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We caught up with Quadeca a little bit last month when he crashed the Kevin Abstract interview with Love Spells, and thanks to overwhelming demand, here he is solo and in-depth. Still just 24 years old, Quadeca, aka Benjamin Fernando Barajas Lasky, has been extremely online for almost half his life. Starting his YouTube channel back in 2012, putting up Fifa videos, then becoming known as a YouTube rapper, getting in spats with KSI, and eventually swerving into more experimental sonic territory, releasing his own brain-bending records as well as working with others like Abstract and Danny Brown.

We talk about all this plus his latest opus Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, an ambitious concept record that has a mythos all its own (and we get into it big time). We also discuss the influence of his parents, his early-years piano teacher, his loyal fanbase, and learning to sail as part of the creation of this fourth album. A dedicated polymath, his ethos on music videos and remaining independent is truly inspiring. Definitely don’t sleep on this conversation.

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0:00.0	And like whatever, like tether me up. Leash me up. Zach Sang Show. Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That's Sam. And today we welcome back to the studio. It's only been a few weeks. An artist, a producer who really was just here. And I'm so happy that you're here. Again, you were here last time with Kevin Abstract. And now you were back to talk about your brand new album. It is called Vanisher Horizon Scraper. Did I say that correct? You did. It was so good. Say hello to Quedekka. Hi. Thank you for having me again. I really feel like now you're like an immediate member of my life. Like I've seen you probably more than my family in the past, you know, a couple months. Very interesting.
0:38.6	Also, you have a very... Dude, you're very interesting. Oh, let's hear. No, I'm... You're about to do things. I'm about to hear. No, but genuinely, like, one, were you surprised and have you even seen the reaction to you in our last conversation? I have a very like
0:35.1	rabid like parisocial
0:36.8	audience so I wasn't seen the reaction to you in our last conversation? I have a very like rabid, like parisocial audience.
0:57.4	So I wasn't surprised that they were really excited.
1:00.4	And I know that you also bring about your own kind of like cultish excitement.
1:05.6	So I think I think my fan base, whenever they see me in an unexpected place or like a, uh, vessel of
1:12.2	some kind of mainstream approval, they, they get really excited and they're like, this is,
1:17.9	this is it. So I think when they saw me talking to you, they're like, oh, you talk to all these
1:21.6	other people, you know, it's like seeing your homie like on some, you know, on some shit you recognize,
1:26.8	you know? I mean, dude, I wasn't fully aware of, like, just for context of the day, right?
1:33.2	Yeah, context of the day.
1:34.4	We were just prepared for Kevin, right?
1:36.1	Right.
1:36.4	And then at virtually the last second, we're like, okay, Kweck is coming and then love spells.
1:42.0	Love spells is coming with them.
1:43.5	Yeah.
1:43.9	Okay, cool. We have barely any time to do as
1:47.3	deep pro this is my packing on you do you see this we got a lot of pages today oh wow yeah you have a lot
1:54.4	of stuff so if we don't have time to really understand you know because you didn't know me before
2:00.7	that right i did it i have i had i know idea yeah yeah dude really understand, you know, I didn't know me before that, right?
2:01.3	I didn't have, I had, I know idea.
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