Tayves Yosef Pelletier, known professionally as King Yosef, is a Portland-based producer and songwriter whose work has been used by rappers like the late XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God. His style is influenced by his listening habits at a younger age, involving himself with music groups that wrote metal core, core and hardcore music.

Yosef first started getting involved with playing music during his teen years, often skipping school to play guitar in his band, as well as experimenting with EDM on his laptop.
Whilst he did grow up around hip-hop during his early years, especially with his stepfather dedication to being an MC in an Oregon rap group, Yosef was more dedicated to metal. Friends of his would later introduce him to the hip-hop community and would later move to Vancouver, Washington shortly after his 18th birthday in aspiration of being a beatmaker.

I honestly had kind of, like, not fallen away from hardcore by any means, but at that time, it didn’t really feel like my band was doing anything. Making hip-hop stuff, I didn’t have to just play breakdowns on the guitar, or do vocals about who knows what. That was just, like, redundant to me at that time.

After he moved to Vancouver, his beatmaking friend Prxphet showcased to him the emerging Rap scene and also played a 57-second track from the earlier works of XXXTentacion.
Yosef on him discovering X

I was like, ‘Wow. I’m so fucking into this. This is so sick. This is carrying so much energy. It’s so angry. It’s so aggressive for being rap music.

Following this, Yosef contacted X asking if he needed any beats. He would later go on to produce “FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION” for X. On the same year, he uploaded his first hip-hop track, “What” which had an apology to the beatmaker prxz for not using it with permission. It read;

I’m not a rapper and I play in a band, so I just yelled on a beat.

From here on, he would go on to have more involvement with X and also flesh out his own style of hip-hop; hardcore yowl, industrial grime and hip-hop with self-loathing and circumstantial lyrics
Whilst some of his tracks do give a screamo vibe, he’s hinted to more lyrical music coming out in future projects.

I guess there’s still some more hardcore-style stuff, but it’s just a lot more articulate songs, than just a one-stop shop for just being pissed off.

If you want to do further research, as well as events that have been glossed over here, you can start at Yosef’s interview with Revolver, which this article samples all its information from.