# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHBRv67xloS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27235377-thefader-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b5422cbe23.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-03-10T13:08:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

Nino Paid keeps his head low. Like the music that’s made him one of rap’s most essential new artists, the 22-year-old carries himself with an air of humble self-possession, aware when all eyes are on him while refusing to play a role. He doesn’t fill the space with empty chatter and doesn’t need to; when he does speak, his words carry weight.

One gets a sense of his deep-seated independence from his latest project, Love Me As I Am, an 18-track LP of somber lyricism spoken plainly against a gentler take on DMV crank, a rap subgenre localized to the D.C. area and defined by its aggressive drum beats. On “Pain & Possibilities 2,” he calls out those who’ve betrayed him (“You been through bullshit, I been through hell too”) and threatened his life (“Niggas tryna kill me, better empty the clip”), framed with a familiar feeling: “I’m tired of goin’ through pain.”

Read our GEN F profile on ninopaid at the link in bio.

✍️ Kaila Philo
📸 kynakool 

#GENF #NinoPaid

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