Lucy Bedroque

The Bronx, then the 405

Jeremiah Jabulani Mark was born in the Bronx on 7 May 2006 and moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. The relocation is the hinge in every version of the story they tell: a New York childhood, then a Californian adolescence spent online rather than in any particular scene.

The music began in 2020, during the first lockdown spring, when Mark was in eighth grade. The earliest work was lo-fi hip-hop instrumentals with no vocals at all. What changed that was digicore — specifically the producers Quinn and Twikipedia, whose records demonstrated that a teenager with a laptop could put their own voice on top of the beat and call it finished. Around 2021, Mark and the collaborator Kaystrueno coined the term maplekore for what they were making, borrowing the aesthetic wholesale from the online role-playing game MapleStory.

Speaking to Dazed in June 2026, Mark waved away most attempts to taxonomise any of it. "At best, I just say it all leads back to hip hop."

Lostrushi, and the tapes that built a following

The first release of consequence arrived on 23 June 2023 under the name Lostrushi. Sisterhood was, by its maker's own description, a lo-fi demo tape, and it worked by sampling the music Mark had grown up on — Linkin Park alongside the Japanese visual-kei bands Malice Mizer and Dir En Grey. It sold nothing on release and accumulated a following slowly, in the way internet records do, over the following eighteen months.

2024 was the year of consolidation: three EPs in five months, beginning with Amy on 4 May, the egobreak collaboration Tether on 3 August, and Fête de la Vanille on 4 October. It was also the year Mark retired Lostrushi and became Lucy Bedroque. The explanation given to The FADER in May 2026 was unromantic — Lucy was already the personal half, Bedroque was lifted from a brand Mark admired, and the two simply "matched together very well."

Unmusique and the deadAir signing

The debut mixtape Unmusique was released on 16 May 2025, the first project under a deal with deadAir Records. Its title is a joke about process rather than a statement of intent: having produced almost everything themselves up to that point, Mark handed large parts of the record to other producers, and expected the existing audience to reject it on those grounds.

Musically it was a harder turn towards rage — distorted 808s pushed past the point of legibility, vocals treated until they scraped — with digicore, EDM and industrial elements pulling at the edges. Tracks including 2010 Justin Bieber, G6 Anthem and Yes, You May spread through social media and became the core of the live set.

Critical reception was warm but qualified. Anthony Fantano gave it a 7 out of 10, praising Mark's knack for writing hooks that survive the distortion and singling out Smackdown as one of the few genuinely unsettling records anyone in the lane had made, while objecting to the sequencing and to several tracks he found forgettable. He finished by guessing that a proper album would be better executed. A compilation, Sororite, followed on 22 July 2025.

Where things stand now

2026 has been the year the guess was tested. Mark was named to the Rolling Loud lineup in January, appeared on The FADER's list of the 32 coolest artists of 2026, and put out a second compilation, B4C, on 10 May.

The album c arrived on 18 September 2026 through deadAir, with Atlantic now attached. It runs 39 minutes, carries no guest features, and is built around ALL SPEAKERS GO TO HEAVEN, THE 9TH CIRCLE, MISS BEHAVIOR, B.Y.O.B., ERASE YOUR SOCIAL and the closer PEACE IN PANDEMONIUM, plus a hostile rebuild of Aphex Twin's Stone in Focus. The lead single, SPEED DEMON, is about fame and touring and is the most melodic thing on the record.

Reviews have been strong. The Playground called it aggressive yet melodic, abrasive yet meticulously constructed, and argued it needs volume to make sense. Legends Will Never Die scored it 4.5 out of 5 and placed Mark among the most interesting artists in the underground trap scene, noting that the rage production of Unmusique has moved into the background in favour of singing.

c is also only the first third of something. Mark told Dazed the plan is an album, then an EP, then a final LP in winter, and described c as a mix of almost every project they have worked on — aimed at new listeners and long-standing ones at once. On the same subject, at twenty, six years into it: "I think six years of a career is very rookie numbers."

The road, so far

The live career started as support. Mark's first-ever show was on Jane Remover and dazegxd's TURN UP OR DIE tour, followed by a full West Coast run, and there have since been opening slots for Jane Remover and Ninajirachi.

The spring 2026 headline run — billed as 002 – North America Tour — was the step up: Mark on top, the Maryland digicore artist kuru in support, and the New Zealand producer 9lives along for the ride. Two nights sold out at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on 5 and 6 May. Atlanta was the one both artists kept coming back to when V Magazine spoke to them on 19 May; Mark called it the craziest show of the run, with the crowd starting an unprompted A-T-L chant and pulling them straight back out for an encore.

The run doubled as a workshop. Roughly ten unreleased songs from c were played every night, months ahead of release, alongside the Unmusique material. Rolling Loud in Orlando on 10 May was the outlier — a six-song festival set on the Verizon Stage at Camping World Stadium, performed in custom Chrome Hearts.

Autumn and winter 2026

The current tour was announced on 21 August 2026, alongside the single, with tickets going on sale the same week. It opens in Europe: EartH in London on 25 September, Opium in Dublin on the 27th, Glasgow's Art School on the 29th, New Century Hall in Manchester on the 30th, a second EartH night on 2 October, then Brussels, Paris, Cologne and Berlin's Hole 44 on the 9th.

North America follows in November and December, and the venue sizes tell the story of the last eighteen months. Two nights at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on 6 and 7 November, then Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver and Mesa, two nights at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on 19 and 20 November, and a December leg through Chicago's Metro, Toronto, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, two nights at Webster Hall in New York on 11 and 12 December, the 9:30 Club in Washington, Charlotte, the Masquerade in Atlanta, Houston and a finish outdoors at the Mohawk in Austin on 19 December. Songkick currently lists 32 dates in all, with further shows pencilled into 2027.