Khalif Diouf, known by his stage name Le1f (/liːf/), is an American rapper and producer from New York City. He runs the hip hop label Camp & Street, a subsidiary of Greedhead Music. As a gay rapper he's garnered attention for his unique and subversive musical and performance styles. Following a series of well-received mixtapes and EPs, his debut studio album Riot Boi was released in November 2015.
Born in Manhattan, New York, Diouf studied ballet and modern dance, attended the Concord Academy with the class of 2007 and earned his degree in dance from Wesleyan University before returning to the city to become a rapper.
Initially known for producing tracks for hip-hop group Das Racist, such as their popular debut single "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", he became known as a solo artist with the release of his debut mixtape Dark York, released in April 2012. Its lead single, the 5kinAndBone5-produced "Wut" garnered attention as the standout track from the project and manifested into a music video in June 2012.
Hello!
What's up?
Hey!
Yeah!
We in shell like sofas we in shell like couchers
We up in these bedrooms so bad about em
We clutch, we keep it growing up
I'm giving in too much, self into my touch,
She's so heavy with me
Inch me like tofa's we itchin' like couchers
We up in these bedrooms, I'm so bad about it
We clutch, we keep it growin' us
I'm living in too much, she's soaked up to my touch
It's so heavy when you in shell the...
Round two ticket on this year
I'm in here, smuggle up to this like a deep bet
This that new frontier, those bumbets is from here
I'm awesome, I'm fashion on handsome is so rare
And is not just the statcher that I'm after
Be out G and making trap for the rapture
New chapter
Crosses green up in my...
Make a cool kid, one I look it like a rapper
Plus, I'm keeping growin plush
I'm giving them too much
Straight... to my touch, it's so heavy when
Plush, plush it's so heavy when you...
Follow, follow my open good
From which the sad drips from the Lord
I give them hits bumps it open poors
Third eye, 20-20 check it boy
And now these dudes they love me everywhere
And in minds... super we could be a creepy pair
Man, we like end up like...
I'm a sweet, I'ma risk a double...
We in shell like sofas we in shell like couchers
We up in these bedrooms so bad about em
We clutch, we keep it growing up
I'm giving in too much, self into my touch,
She's so heavy with me