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Hunter (last name unknown), better known by his stage named R1FT (formerly RIFT WILD) is a Swedish American rapper, singer-song writer, record producer, and YouTuber. He is most popular for his music put through the rap app called 'Rap Fame'.

Early Life
Hunter was born on May 20th 2006, in Detroit, Michigan. Hunter became a Basketball player since 4th Grade as he later on played on the Middle School and High School teams. Hunter said ″I never thought at that time I would be doing music in the future.″ Hunter opened his first YouTube Channel in 2014, under the name HTR DOG; his early videos were based around playing video gaming and vloging.

Career
In 2020, Hunter stopped posting on his old channel HTR DOG and began to create rap-related content going by the new name of RIFT WILD at age 13. On October 23rd, 2020, at the age of 14, he released his debut rap mixtape Phazes. However that mixtape got barley the amount of attention as his 2nd mixtape Dreams released a year later on November 2nd, 2021, with the stand-out song ″Migraine″ that achieved millions of streams on Tik Tok catering more towards Lo-fi Rap.

On December 12th, 2021, R1FT released his 1st EP FLESH. and followed it up with his 3rd Mixtape Sometimes People Just Disappear that achieved Millions of streams on Tik Tok and 50k on Spotify. Hunter notably shifted from Lo-fi Rap to Alternate Horrorcore Jazz Rap with the music having a whole lot more emotion than previous releases.

Hunter joined the rap group Hitsquad in 2021 lead by R3D and Grumpy850 that eventually formed and split up into another group in Late 2022 called the Gudda Boys. The current day Hitsquad has 10 members and R1FT is still a member of the Gudda Boys alongside 40 others. On Hitsquad he met artist Levi 8.5 who would later on make many songs together such as Calling My Phone and a collab album said to come later.

On 2022 December 3rd he released his debut studio EP Echoes In The Silence, then a week later dropping his 2nd studio EP Flutterboy which both notably showed a huge improvement compared to his other projects and brought back the more mainstream rap style in his music but with his own twist.

He was featured as a guessed on the song All On My Own from Nikons 1st Mixtape and are said to have more songs coming in the future. Also said to be appearing as features on songs with Levi 8.5, and Banda but have not since been released. R1FT announced he is working on 2 projects but not much information has been said about them.