Ryan Celsius
Ryan Celsius | |
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| YouTube information | |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Genre | Music |
| Subscribers | 620 thousand |
| Views | 217.1 million |
| Last updated: July 16, 2026 | |
Ryan Celsius (stylized as R y a n C e l s i u s °) is the pseudonym of a Washington, D.C.–based music curator, disc jockey, video artist, music producer and YouTuber.
His YouTube channel features visual mixtapes, combining underground hip hop, phonk and lo-fi tracks with nostalgic anime and movie visuals. Trappin in Japan, which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular series.
Career
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Based in Washington, D.C., Ryan Celsius began producing music and making videos in 2005.[1] The same year, his production hardware was stolen, and he lost all the music and videos created.[1] Celsius stated that the event made him stop producing music for eight years.[1]
In the early 2010s, Celsius got interested in the vaporwave culture, including vaportrap and simpsonwave.[2] He opened his YouTube channel in 2011 as a "personal project".[1] The channel's video mixtapes combine underground phonk, trap and hip hop music with nostalgic visuals from popular anime clips and movies.[1][3] Most of Celsius' tracks come from independent artists.[3]
The Trappin in Japan series, which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular,[4][5] featuring visual mixtapes with first-person footage of people driving or walking through Japanese streets,[3] coupled with clips from nostalgic films such as Akira,[3] and imagery from The Simpsons.[5] He cites YouTube channel Emotional Tokyo as an inspiration for the series.[2] The series, among others, was key to popularizing the phonk genre.[6] Celsius' channel also holds 24/7 live streams of visual mixtapes.[4]
In January 2019,[1] Celsius was hired by indie record label Amuse to build their lo-fi music division.[7] In summer 2019,[8] Celsius' YouTube channel was demonetized and several videos were "shadow banned" due to "misleading thumbnails" in his videos.[3] Celsius stated: "the YouTube policy team cannot understand the link between Japan, trap music, anime, The Simpsons, so since they don't understand my content it must be misleading".[3]
In 2020, Celsius worked with Westbrook Media to create a lo-fi mixtape for Will Smith's YouTube channel.[9][10] In 2021, he performed with Flying Lotus in New York,[11] and was the visualizer maker for the official music video content of the TV series Yasuke.[12]
Discography
[edit]- Marble (2021)
- Golden Hour (2022)
- no collision (2022)
- TYPE 2 (2023)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Andronicos, Leni (January 9, 2019). "Interview: Ryan Celsius". Amuse. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- 1 2 Ryan Celsius Interview – Artist Spotlight [Open Doors]. Open Doors Entertainment. November 26, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Demonetized: YouTube Destroys Trailblazing Musician's Income Stream Over 'Misleading Thumbnails'". Grabien. July 22, 2019. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- 1 2 LaJenuesse, Nicole (March 1, 2019). "RyanCelsius° Sounds taps into personal experience to deliver emotionally resonant mixtapes". Creator Handbook. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- 1 2 Yamamoto, Akihiro (March 6, 2020). "【コラム】ローファイヒップホップ現象を再考する" [[Column] Rethinking the lo-fi hip-hop phenomenon]. FNMNL (in Japanese). Retrieved November 10, 2021.
- ↑ yokai (September 30, 2020). "how dj yung vamp got 20k followers in a year". YouTube. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
- ↑ Zarczynski, Andrea (December 23, 2020). "How Lofi Hip-Hop Will Inspire New Music In 2021". Forbes. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ↑ Celsius, Ryan [@RyanCelsius] (June 18, 2019). "Demonetized and countless videos shadowblocked, not for Copyright but because YouTube doesn't understand what my content is. Keep your ad money, just unblock my videos" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ "DonVayei featured in Will Smith's "Chill Beats to Social Distance To"". DONVAYEI. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
- ↑ Lo-fi Summertime Beats to Social Distance To. Will Smith. July 10, 2020.
- ↑ "Flying Lotus + Reggie Watts at Brooklyn Mirage, New York ⟋ RA". Resident Advisor. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ↑ Yasuke Original Soundtrack (Official Album Stream). Flying Lotus. April 30, 2021.