
Interview: How tragedy helped Phoenix rapper Mega Ran embrace his inner nerd and stress the positive Growing up on rap and pop-punk In 2015, he appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." Two years later, he spent the summer as the only rapper on the Warped Tour. He's released 10 solo albums, two collaborative albums (with Devvon Terrell and Michael Minelli), three EPs and countless singles.Īnd that's not counting all the CDs he made in his father's basement studio to sell at school as a talent show regular as early as the fifth grade. He's spent the years since then steadily growing his brand as one of Arizona's most successful rappers, with more than 800,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, where several of his biggest songs have pulled in more than 40 million streams. It's been 10 years since Futuristic announced his arrival on the hip-hop scene with an album whose title served as something of a mission statement: "Dream Big."
