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15 Styles of Rapping! (ft. Dababy, Lil Nas X, NLE Choppa, Lil Tecca)

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Quadeca crams fifteen rap voices into one video, and somehow keeps every impression sharper than the last.

Benjamin Lasky, the YouTuber and rapper better known as Quadeca, built a chunk of his following on a simple premise: pick a handful of rappers, nail their cadence, their ad-libs, their whole internet persona, and stitch it into one continuous freestyle. His latest entry, “15 Styles of Rapping! (ft. Dababy, Lil Nas X, NLE Choppa, Lil Tecca),” takes that format and points it directly at the artists dominating rap Twitter and YouTube in mid-2019. It’s less a collaboration than a one-man tour through the genre’s fastest-moving lane.

• Quadeca runs through impressions of DaBaby, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” delivery, NLE Choppa, and Lil Tecca’s breakout “Ransom” flow within the same video.
• The lineup also pulls from the YouTube rap scene itself, with bars mimicking Tom MacDonald, DAX, Comethazine, and Crypt, timed to Crypt’s appearance in the XXL YouTube Cypher.
• Two of the fifteen styles are keyed to fresh album drops: YBN Cordae’s debut “The Lost Boy” and Chance the Rapper’s newly released “The Big Day,” both out in July 2019.

Fifteen Voices, One Video

What separates Quadeca’s “Styles of Rapping” entries from a generic impressions reel is the density. He doesn’t do a bar or two of each artist and move on — he holds each cadence long enough to sell the joke, then pivots into the next one without breaking the beat. Fifteen distinct flows in a single video means he’s rewriting his delivery, his slang, and his ad-lib patterns roughly every fifteen to twenty seconds, which is the actual technical showcase underneath the comedy.

The Breakout Stars He Nails

The headline names are the four artists who’d spent the first half of 2019 taking over the charts and the algorithm alike: DaBaby, riding his rapid-fire North Carolina delivery into mainstream rotation; Lil Nas X, whose “Old Town Road” had already turned into the genre-blending phenomenon of the summer; NLE Choppa, the Memphis teenager whose aggressive, melodic drill sound was exploding online; and Lil Tecca, whose “Ransom” was becoming one of the biggest breakout singles of the year. Quadeca’s takes on each lean on the specific vocal tics — Lil Nas X’s twang, Tecca’s helium-pitched hook, Choppa’s snarl — rather than generic “rap voice.”

Fifteen artists, one rapper, zero actual features — that’s the entire premise, and Quadeca sells every switch.

The YouTube Rap Underground

Alongside the chart names, Quadeca folds in figures who built their audience largely inside YouTube’s own rap ecosystem: Tom MacDonald, DAX, and Comethazine, all artists whose careers ran heavily through YouTube uploads and reaction culture rather than traditional radio. He also spotlights Crypt, fresh off his appearance in the XXL YouTube Cypher, a nod that places the video squarely inside the same online rap community it’s poking fun at. For fans tracking how internet-native rap crossed over into mainstream conversation, the sequencing is the point — DaBaby doesn’t get treated as more legitimate than DAX, they’re just two flows to run through in the same breath.

Timing the Album Cycles

Two of the impressions are tied directly to release-week news. YBN Cordae had just put out his debut studio album, “The Lost Boy,” and Chance the Rapper had dropped “The Big Day,” his first full studio album, that same July. Working both into the same video means Quadeca is basically bar-coding the video with the news cycle — anyone watching in the days after either release would recognize exactly which week this was filmed.

The “Styles of Rapping” format only works because the internet’s favorite rappers keep changing that fast — DaBaby’s cadence gets absorbed into meme culture, “Old Town Road” turns into a genre unto itself, and by the time one video’s done there’s already a new flow worth stealing for the next one.