Yung Gravy

Matthew Raymond Hauri (born March 19, 1996), known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper. Matthew Raymond Hauri was born on March 19, 1996 in Rochester, Minnesota. His father, Peter Johannes Hauri (1933–2013), was a Swiss-born psychologist who specialized in treating insomnia; his mother is psychiatrist Cynthia Cleveland Hauri. Hauri graduated from Mayo High School in 2014. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned a marketing degree in December 2017. While attending college, Hauri developed branding strategies for start-up companies, and started multiple companies of his own. Inspired by the rise of rappers such as Lil Yachty and Lil Peep, he started his music career on SoundCloud. In 2017, he quit his other jobs and dedicated himself to making music, spending months self-recording songs. He first gained recognition for his 2017 songs "Mr. Clean" and "1 Thot 2 Thot Red Thot Blue Thot", both of which gained traction on SoundCloud and received platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He is often associated with the SoundCloud rap era as well as Canadian rapper bbno$, with whom he has released two collaborative albums and one extended play. His 2022 single, "Betty (Get Money)" marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 30 and likewise received platinum certification. His discography consists of one mixtape, four albums, and seven extended plays. He has collaborated with artists including Lil Baby, Juicy J, T-Pain, Dillon Francis, and Lil Wayne, as well as television personality Martha Stewart. The 2025 video game Dispatch features Yung Gravy's voice as the character Golem, a large sentient construct made of clay. In April 2021, Yung Gravy received recognition from the professional hockey team Tampa Bay Lightning, who inscribed the title of Yung Gravy’s track "Gravy Train," one of the team's post-game victory songs, on their 2020 Stanley Cup rings. In 2022, Yung Gravy performed at the pregame performance for the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots NFL football game on Thanksgiving Day. In 2022, he was also featured on both Jimmy Kimmel Live and the MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show, performing his hit single, “Betty (Get Money)." In January 2023, Yung Gravy performed at the X Games, hosted in Aspen, Colorado; he also participated in the Special Olympics Unified Skiing competition, where he raced against professional freeskier Tom Wallisch. Yung Gravy's musical style is a blend of trap music with vintage themes often inspired by soul music of the 1950s and 1960s and soul and funk music of the 1960s, '70s and '80s: For example, his song "Gravy Train" samples Maxine Nightingale's 1976 "Right Back Where We Started From", and his breakout hit "Mr. Clean" samples the 1954 song "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes. His musical style has been described as amusing, energetic, authentic, and bold. Yung Gravy has cited musicians from multiple genres as inspirations; including hip-hop acts, such as Outkast and Three 6 Mafia; and soul acts, ranging from Smokey Robinson to The Blackbyrds. Yung Gravy is 6 feet 8 in (2.03m) tall, though he has mentioned being 6'6" in a song because it flowed better lyrically. "Shining on My Ex" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 25 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Iunno" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 21 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Welcome to Chilis" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 40 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Oops!" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 23 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. "Hot Tub" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 37 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "C'est la Vie" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Everest" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 37 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Nightmare on Peachtree Street" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 40 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. "Yung Gravy". BMG. April 23, 2026. Retrieved April 24, 2026. McIntosh, Steven (January 27, 2023). "Rick Astley sues Yung Gravy over alleged Never Gonna Give You Up imitation". BBC News. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Berger, Eric (March 11, 2025). "Yung Gravy is a rapper, TikToker and now a narrator for Audible". PRWeek. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Hauri, Matthew Raymond [@yunggravy] (March 19, 2021). "just turned 25 baby 🤪 I'm blessed to have made it this long, and to have met all the beautiful mfs that make life so dope 😈 take a lil juice-break for me - take a shot for mama gravy and pour one out for papa gravy 💘🕊#RIP love y'all" (Tweet). Retrieved March 22, 2025 – via Twitter. Wasson, Mark (January 27, 2023). "Rochester native Yung Gravy sued by Rick Astley for sampling 'Never Gonna Give You Up'". Rochester Post Bulletin. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Vitello, Paul (February 7, 2013). "Peter Hauri, Psychologist Who Focused on Insomnia, Dies at 79". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2022. Barrand, Rochelle (August 30, 2022). "Rapper Yung Gravy and Addison Rae's mum Sheri Easterling share a kiss at VMA awards". NationalWorld. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Jahns, Isaac (2019). "Mayo High grad riding the Gravy train to musical fame". medcitybeat.com. Retrieved September 21, 2024. Borba, Ryan (February 21, 2020). "All Aboard The Yung Gravy Train: Midwestern-Born Rapper Becomes A Hard-Ticket Touring Draw". Pollstar.com. Retrieved July 30, 2020. Walters, Anna (August 7, 2019). "Former Badger Yung Gravy reveals origin of moniker, career before Lollapalooza". The Badger Herald. Retrieved July 30, 2020. "Open Space: Yung Gravy". Mass Appeal. May 4, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2020 – via YouTube. "'Stay Midwestern and friendly' Yung Gravy talks MN roots". kare11.com. November 27, 2022. Retrieved December 10, 2022. Thomas, Fred. "Yung Gravy Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2020. "Gold & Platinum". riaa.com. Recording Industry Association of America. 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2023. Svetz, Josh (December 9, 2022). "Yung Gravy Knows Why You Love Him". papermag.com. Zellner, Xander (June 12, 2019). "Yung Gravy, Blanco Brown & Dominic Fike Debut on Emerging Artists Chart". Billboard. Retrieved September 22, 2024. Issawi, Danya (September 13, 2022). 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August 28, 2022. Archived from the original on September 27, 2022. Girgis, Sarah (January 29, 2023). "Yung Gravy makes most of X Games experience". Aspen Times. "Yung Gravy On How He Got His Name, Inspiration From Ugly God & Felony Case". Power 106 Los Angeles. August 29, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2020 – via YouTube. Stojiljkovic, Lena (April 15, 2018). "Yung Gravy brings sauce with latest single 'Knockout'". The Badger Herald. Retrieved January 5, 2019. Lee, Ella (August 7, 2019). "Yung Gravy on sampling, disco, M.I.L.F.s and more". The DePaulia Online. Retrieved July 30, 2020. Houston, Henry