Christian Haywood is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, audio engineer, & producer. Recently, he released his fourth official EP entitled “AFTERLÜV”, published August 2021. 
 Haywood has been writing music since he was nine years old. Major influences were artists such as Talib Kwali, Nas, Ye, and local artists from his hometown. At the age of 13, he recorded his first freestyle. From age 16 on, Haywood began his career as a producer to create beats for himself, to be self sufficient; as he couldn’t afford a producer. Later, he picked up on audio engineering skills from recording his own music at home.
 At age 18, he began to explore deeper into his musical side once he moved to Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles Area). After graduating from University of Oregon in 2015 with his Bachelors of Science; he continued his music and later started EL-Clique Recordings in Eugene, Oregon. Later that year, he signed as a vendor to The Private Plane (record label), which was created by Malik Yusef of Kanye West's GOOD Music. 
 Since then he’s started his own music business called EL-Clique Entertainment LLC — an independent record label / music collective, as well as a clothing line, & his own recording studio.