Lil Salmonela is an alter ego of Papa Khan, known for songs with more explicit lyrics. He began his career by uploading his first track, Ratna Anjink, to Bester TV, a YouTube channel focused on rap and hip-hop that was non-commercial and purely for fun. After the channel was banned multiple times by YouTube, he reuploaded all of his previous songs to his own channel and compiled them into an album titled The Classics. Since then, he has released several albums, including 777 EP and FERAL.