Fivio Foreign

Maxie Lee Ryles III, known by his stage name Fivio Foreign, is an American rapper from Brooklyn. He first gained recognition for his 2019 single "Big Drip", which received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned a remix featuring Lil Baby and Quavo.

Brooklyn drill's ascent from underground cipher to mainstream force owes much to Fivio Foreign's tireless championing of the sound—a debt the genre repaid when "Big Drip" went platinum in 2019 and launched his profile into the stratosphere. His collaborative instincts proved crucial to the movement's ecosystem: he appeared on Pop Smoke's posthumous album, cementing ties with a fallen peer, while his feature on Kanye West's "Off the Grid" (alongside Playboi Carti) signaled that drill's abrasive aesthetics could penetrate even the highest echelons of rap royalty. Across four studio albums beginning with *800 BC* in 2020, Fivio has maintained the chaotic energy that defines Brooklyn drill, refusing the melodic compromises that softened the genre elsewhere.