# Jaydes
**Jaydes** is the professional name of Jayden Yen Dumont (born 2006), an American rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter from [Pompano Beach, Florida](https://www.edgepedia.org/pompano-beach-florida), formerly known as evvls and also credited under the names yen and mandy[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes). He gained popularity through TikTok and [SoundCloud](https://www.edgepedia.org/soundcloud) and is generally credited as one of the artists popularizing the pluggnb subgenre, a melodic offshoot of plugg (an underground trap subgenre with bouncy, video-game-like melodies) production[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes). His breakout project was the self-produced EP *heartpacing* in 2022, followed by *Ghetto Cupid* (2023) and *Count Up Dracula* (2024)[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/) • [5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). In November 2024 he was arrested in [Broward County, Florida](https://www.edgepedia.org/broward-county-florida), on a charge of attempted murder, to which he pleaded not guilty[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jayden Yen Dumont, born 2006 in Pompano Beach, Florida[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) • [2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/) |
| Other names | Formerly evvls; also records as yen, mandy, LORD, Nunya, and howl[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) • [9](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/157793-jaydes/?type=all) |
| Breakout release | *heartpacing*, self-produced EP released August 2022, about 16 minutes long[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/) |
| Albums and EPs | *Ghetto Cupid* (2023, 17 tracks), *Count Up Dracula* (2024, 10 tracks), six-song EP *Panic* (2024)[3](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/) • [5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/) • [1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) |
| 2024 arrest | Booked November 10, 2024 in Broward County on charge 782.04-1a1, murder premeditated (attempted murder), with bond set at 0.00[6](https://recentlybooked.com/fl/broward/jayden-dumont~6_192400613) • [7](https://browardfl.mugshots.zone/dumont-jayden-yen-mugshot-11-10-2024/) |
| Later arrest records | Bookings recorded on 2/8/25, 8/21/25, 11/14/25, and 8/29/26, several noted as probation violations or aggravated battery with a deadly weapon[8](https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Jayden_Dumont_62613284/) |
| Streaming reach | About 1.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify as tracked by Soundcharts[10](https://www.soundcharts.com/en/artist/f3bf822c-b521-431d-a2a4-bd027b24851a) |
## Early life and beginnings
Dumont was born in 2006 in Pompano Beach, in Broward County, Florida, the same city where [Kodak Black](https://www.edgepedia.org/kodak-black) was raised; he later moved to nearby Tamarac and then to the suburbs[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). His mother, who is Puerto Rican and Dominican, and his father, who is Haitian, introduced him to music early: his father had tried making R&B before Dumont was born, and Dumont listened to Jodeci as a child and took piano classes through elementary school[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). His early listening included [Erykah Badu](https://www.edgepedia.org/erykah-badu), passed down from his mother, along with the rappers [Black Kray](https://www.edgepedia.org/black-kray), XXXTentacion, and Playboi Carti[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/).
He played soccer until age 13, when he began rapping in his bedroom[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). In early 2021 his cloudy, melodic take on plugg music began to take off on SoundCloud, and he found a wider audience through TikTok[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) • [2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). Near the end of 2021, as a 16-year-old high school junior, he stopped attending school in person in Broward County and switched permanently to an online program[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). He did not tell his father about his music until he reached 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and was closing in on 100,000 when Pitchfork profiled him in October 2022[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/).
## heartpacing and rise
After about a year of developing his writing and production, Dumont released the self-produced EP *heartpacing* in August 2022[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). The project runs about 16 minutes and pairs lovelorn, diaristic writing with the lush, blissed-out production typical of plugg, a style Pitchfork described as rewiring the genre by adding emo croons[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/) • [3](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/). Breakout tracks included "trust issues" and "highschool"[2](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/). Earlier releases from this period include *!?* (2021), *romanticism* (April 2022), and *sativa* (2022)[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes).
## Ghetto Cupid, Count Up Dracula, and side projects
*Ghetto Cupid*, self-released in 2023, runs 17 tracks and pulls together strands from plugg, the layered guitars of shoegaze, and emo balladry[3](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/) • [1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes). A majority of its tracks are credited to the pseudonym yen, a name Dumont has continued to use for later releases[3](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/). In 2023 he also created the side project mandy, whose music differed noticeably from the jaydes catalog[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes).
*Count Up Dracula* followed in July 2024 with 10 tracks, and a six-song EP called *Panic* was released on [Halloween](https://www.edgepedia.org/halloween) 2024[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) • [5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). His guest feature on yuke's "finesse cult anthem," the closing track of the 2024 project *trap finesse cult*, led [The FADER](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-fader) to describe him as an experimental shoegaze-rap artist[4](https://www.thefader.com/2024/04/05/rap-blog-yuke-and-jaydes-summon-an-anthem). Releases credited to Yen include the 2026 LPs *Yen* and *YOU OWE ME*, and Last.fm lists *bipolar (deluxe) - EP*, released August 11, 2026, as his latest record[9](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/157793-jaydes/?type=all) • [1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes).
## 2024 arrest and later arrest records
On November 14, 2024, Pitchfork reported that Jaydes, then 18, had been arrested on a charge of attempted murder[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). According to an affidavit obtained by Pitchfork, deputies from the Broward Sheriff's Office responded to a 9-1-1 call about a stabbing in the late afternoon of November 2, 2024, in an apartment in Tamarac, Florida; the alleged victim had stab wounds to her neck and forearm and received multiple stitches for two lacerations[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). The affidavit states that Dumont invited the woman to his apartment by text message and that the stabbing followed her rejection of his advances; he allegedly left the scene without providing medical aid or calling 9-1-1[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/).
A warrant was issued on November 3, 2024[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). Dumont was taken into custody on November 10, 2024, after an officer responding to a report of a mentally disordered person having an episode at a Denny's restaurant in Fort Lauderdale found him standing next to a knife, described him as nonverbal, and discovered the outstanding warrant[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/). Booking records list the charge as murder premeditated under Florida statute 782.04-1a1, noted as attempted murder, with bond set at 0.00[6](https://recentlybooked.com/fl/broward/jayden-dumont~6_192400613) • [7](https://browardfl.mugshots.zone/dumont-jayden-yen-mugshot-11-10-2024/). A judge ordered a mental health evaluation and a no-contact condition with the alleged victim, and his attorney filed a written plea of not guilty on November 14, 2024[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/).
Public arrest records show further bookings in the following years: February 8, 2025, on a warrant for violation of pretrial release on a felony charge noted as aggravated battery with a deadly weapon; August 21, 2025, on a court order with the same charge noted; November 14, 2025, for violation of probation on a felony, count I aggravated battery with a deadly weapon; and August 29, 2026, in Sarasota, for probation violation out of Broward County noted as aggravated battery with a deadly weapon[8](https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Jayden_Dumont_62613284/). These records list charges and bookings, not convictions; individuals booked are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court[6](https://recentlybooked.com/fl/broward/jayden-dumont~6_192400613).
## Style and reception
Pitchfork's review of *Ghetto Cupid* placed Dumont's music among the online and regional rap sounds of the 2010s, noting raw lilts that evoke XXXTentacion's tortured balladry while staying gloomy in a bored-teenager register rather than heavy[3](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/). Soundcharts categorizes him under hip hop, alternative, dream plugg, and pluggnb[10](https://www.soundcharts.com/en/artist/f3bf822c-b521-431d-a2a4-bd027b24851a). Album of The Year lists his genres as singer-songwriter, punk rock, alternative rock, plugg, and slacker rock, and records a critic score of 75 for his work based on one review[9](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/157793-jaydes/?type=all). His most-streamed songs on Last.fm include "hysteric," "convenience," and "rose," and his YouTube channel has amassed over 120,000 subscribers with music videos for songs like "Slugs" and "Tell Me"[1](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes) • [11](https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/jaydes.html).
## References
1. [Jaydes music, videos, stats, and photos, Last.fm](https://www.last.fm/music/Jaydes)
2. [Florida High Schooler jaydes Makes Unbothered Rap That's True to the Teenage Experience, Pitchfork (October 7, 2022)](https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/florida-high-schooler-jaydes-makes-unbothered-rap-thats-true-to-the-teenage-experience/)
3. [jaydes: ghetto cupid Album Review, Pitchfork (August 23, 2023)](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jaydes-ghetto-cupid/)
4. [Rap Blog: yuke and jaydes summon an anthem, The FADER (April 5, 2024)](https://www.thefader.com/2024/04/05/rap-blog-yuke-and-jaydes-summon-an-anthem)
5. [Jaydes, Underground Florida Rapper, Arrested for Attempted Murder, Pitchfork (November 14, 2024)](https://pitchfork.com/news/jaydes-underground-florida-rapper-arrested-for-attempted-murder/)
6. [Jayden Yen Dumont Arrest Record, Broward, FL, RecentlyBooked](https://recentlybooked.com/fl/broward/jayden-dumont~6_192400613)
7. [Dumont Jayden Yen 11/10/2024, Broward County Mugshots Zone](https://browardfl.mugshots.zone/dumont-jayden-yen-mugshot-11-10-2024/)
8. [Jayden Dumont Mugshot, 11/10/24 Florida Arrest, Florida Arrests](https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Jayden_Dumont_62613284/)
9. [jaydes Albums, Songs, Discography, Album of The Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/157793-jaydes/?type=all)
10. [Jaydes Stats & Charts, Soundcharts](https://www.soundcharts.com/en/artist/f3bf822c-b521-431d-a2a4-bd027b24851a)
11. [Jaydes, Famous Birthdays](https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/jaydes.html)
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