Benjamin Fernando Barajas Lasky (born October 2, 2000), better known by his stage name Quadeca (formerly QuadecaX8), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. Lasky began on the Internet by uploading rap songs, music videos, comedy sketches, and video game gameplay to his YouTube channel.
Quadeca deviated from his YouTube career to focus on his music career, releasing four mixtapes before the albums Voice Memos in 2019, From Me to You in 2021, and I Didn't Mean to Haunt You in 2022. The mixtape, SCRAPYARD, released on February 16, 2024, contains features from Brakence and Kevin Abstract. His fourth studio album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released in July 2025.
Quadeca's music career started in 2015, when he decided to create his first song, titled "Fifa 14 Rap". He then released his first studio album called "Work In Progress" in September of 2015. He then went on to release another three full-length projects, "Nostalgia For The Now", "Bad Internet Rapper", and "Out Of Order".
After amassing a large amount of attention throughout 2018 through his "Styles of Rap" series and KSI diss track, Quadeca began teasing a project by the title of Voice Memos. It was after the release of the first single from said project, "Unusual" (featuring B. Lou), that many would notice the serious uptick in the professionalism of Quadeca's music. The final single from Voice Memos was released on January 25, 2019, titled "War!" and featuring Dax, another rapper whose popularity emerged through YouTube. "Voice Memos" was released on March 8, 2019, to lukewarm critical reception.
On September 27, 2019, Quadeca released a highly-awaited single titled "SCHOENBERG", which samples Verklärte Nacht. This video's ending featured a snippet that seemed to contain slightly cryptic info about something dropping "early 2020", which he called FMTY. On Twitter, he confirmed this was called From Me To You, and that the project was in the works.
Quadeca also released another three singles in late 2019, "I DON'T CARE", "Fish Outta Bacardi" (featuring EGOVERT) and "BEAMIN'", which has since become his most popular song, amassing 31 million plays on Spotify.
He released three singles during 2020 (namely "Where'd You Go?", "Alone Together" and "LIVE LIKE THIS", the latter of which was mentioned to be a scrapped track from "From Me To You", whereas the others would be included on the album) and delayed the album multiple times. Notably, these singles were the first to be released from Quadeca under AWAL Recordings America - all previously released music had been done so independently. The 'final single' from the album, "Sisyphus", was released on March 18 and received critical appraisal from the likes of Anthony Fantano. "From Me To You" (FMTY) was eventually released on streaming services and digital stores on March 31, 2021, and was an instant success amongst Quadeca’s fans, drawing attention to Ben’s huge upward trajectory since the release of ‘Voice Memos’. FMTY had features from PlayThatBoiZay, Guapdad4000, and, more notably, IDK on the tracks "Work!", "People Pleaser" and "Burnin Bridges / Long Day", respectively. Just one day after release, Quadeca achieved 1 million Spotify streams in a day for the first time in his career. One of the more notable aspects of FMTY was that Quadeca has production credits on 100% of "From Me To You", with 83.3% of songs being produced alone and no co-producers. He is listed as: Composer, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Executive Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist. He even played the Ukulele and stated that 8 real instruments were played in the single "Sisyphus".
He began teasing a new album in late 2021, announcing the title as "I Didn't Mean To Haunt You" via YouTube on April 23, 2022. He would also tease the album's concept on Twitter, stating how he was "currently sitting on the greatest ever posthumous album". The first single, "born yesterday" was released along with a music video on the 19th of September, with the second single "tell me a joke" released on the 25th of October. Shortly after the full tracklist for I Didn't Mean to Haunt You was revealed, with features from Danny Brown, the Sunday Service Choir, and drummer Thor Harris, of Swans fame. The album was released on the 11th of November, 2022, to high critical and public acclaim, with many calling it his best work to date.
The Scrapyard series was first announced on October 3, 2023, with SCRAPYARD I. The series was set to contain five separate packs, each containing two songs. A few weeks after the release of SCRAPYARD III, however, the fourth and fifth packs were canceled, with Quadeca citing “new developments.”
The Finale, aptly titled SCRAPYARD, contains 15 tracks and features from artists brakence and Kevin Abstract, the former of whom made an appearance in SCRAPYARD I, the series' debut.
Quadeca's fourth album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released on July 25, 2025. It's accompanied by a full-length film posted to YouTube, which was written and directed by Lasky himself, featuring the entire concept album in visual form.
Quadeca deviated from his YouTube career to focus on his music career, releasing four mixtapes before the albums Voice Memos in 2019, From Me to You in 2021, and I Didn't Mean to Haunt You in 2022. The mixtape, SCRAPYARD, released on February 16, 2024, contains features from Brakence and Kevin Abstract. His fourth studio album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released in July 2025.
Quadeca's music career started in 2015, when he decided to create his first song, titled "Fifa 14 Rap". He then released his first studio album called "Work In Progress" in September of 2015. He then went on to release another three full-length projects, "Nostalgia For The Now", "Bad Internet Rapper", and "Out Of Order".
After amassing a large amount of attention throughout 2018 through his "Styles of Rap" series and KSI diss track, Quadeca began teasing a project by the title of Voice Memos. It was after the release of the first single from said project, "Unusual" (featuring B. Lou), that many would notice the serious uptick in the professionalism of Quadeca's music. The final single from Voice Memos was released on January 25, 2019, titled "War!" and featuring Dax, another rapper whose popularity emerged through YouTube. "Voice Memos" was released on March 8, 2019, to lukewarm critical reception.
On September 27, 2019, Quadeca released a highly-awaited single titled "SCHOENBERG", which samples Verklärte Nacht. This video's ending featured a snippet that seemed to contain slightly cryptic info about something dropping "early 2020", which he called FMTY. On Twitter, he confirmed this was called From Me To You, and that the project was in the works.
Quadeca also released another three singles in late 2019, "I DON'T CARE", "Fish Outta Bacardi" (featuring EGOVERT) and "BEAMIN'", which has since become his most popular song, amassing 31 million plays on Spotify.
He released three singles during 2020 (namely "Where'd You Go?", "Alone Together" and "LIVE LIKE THIS", the latter of which was mentioned to be a scrapped track from "From Me To You", whereas the others would be included on the album) and delayed the album multiple times. Notably, these singles were the first to be released from Quadeca under AWAL Recordings America - all previously released music had been done so independently. The 'final single' from the album, "Sisyphus", was released on March 18 and received critical appraisal from the likes of Anthony Fantano. "From Me To You" (FMTY) was eventually released on streaming services and digital stores on March 31, 2021, and was an instant success amongst Quadeca’s fans, drawing attention to Ben’s huge upward trajectory since the release of ‘Voice Memos’. FMTY had features from PlayThatBoiZay, Guapdad4000, and, more notably, IDK on the tracks "Work!", "People Pleaser" and "Burnin Bridges / Long Day", respectively. Just one day after release, Quadeca achieved 1 million Spotify streams in a day for the first time in his career. One of the more notable aspects of FMTY was that Quadeca has production credits on 100% of "From Me To You", with 83.3% of songs being produced alone and no co-producers. He is listed as: Composer, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Executive Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist. He even played the Ukulele and stated that 8 real instruments were played in the single "Sisyphus".
He began teasing a new album in late 2021, announcing the title as "I Didn't Mean To Haunt You" via YouTube on April 23, 2022. He would also tease the album's concept on Twitter, stating how he was "currently sitting on the greatest ever posthumous album". The first single, "born yesterday" was released along with a music video on the 19th of September, with the second single "tell me a joke" released on the 25th of October. Shortly after the full tracklist for I Didn't Mean to Haunt You was revealed, with features from Danny Brown, the Sunday Service Choir, and drummer Thor Harris, of Swans fame. The album was released on the 11th of November, 2022, to high critical and public acclaim, with many calling it his best work to date.
The Scrapyard series was first announced on October 3, 2023, with SCRAPYARD I. The series was set to contain five separate packs, each containing two songs. A few weeks after the release of SCRAPYARD III, however, the fourth and fifth packs were canceled, with Quadeca citing “new developments.”
The Finale, aptly titled SCRAPYARD, contains 15 tracks and features from artists brakence and Kevin Abstract, the former of whom made an appearance in SCRAPYARD I, the series' debut.
Quadeca's fourth album, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, was released on July 25, 2025. It's accompanied by a full-length film posted to YouTube, which was written and directed by Lasky himself, featuring the entire concept album in visual form.