Biography
Lance Omal (born 30 November 1995), better known by his stage name Lancey Foux is an English rap recording artist from Plaistow, Newham, East London and is of Ugandan decent. He is also known as Cultcaine.
Lancey began his music career in 2015 by freestyling over YouTube beats from his bedroom which eventually led to him accidentally finding his way to a studio through a friend. In the same year, he released his debut studio album Pink. Two weeks later, he dropped local breakthrough hit “About It”. After a few performances (such as the memorable SBTV cookout), and multiple solo and collaborative singles released on SoundCloud, he released his sophomore studio album TEEN SKUM in late 2015. After two years of releasing more SoundCloud singles, he released a collaborative studio album with English producer Nyge titled First Day at Nursery. By early 2018, Lancey raised his profile and found a more distinctive sound with Too Far Alive. He released Pink II, the sequel to his debut album, three months later, which showcased a feature from Grime legend Skepta on “Dyed 2WICE”. He soon joined Skepta’s SK LEVEL Europe tour. After catching more attention, he performed at US hip-hop festival Rolling Loud in 2019 and modeled for Jordan and A-COLD-WALL*, MISBHV, Trapstar, and Naomi Campbell’s 2019 Fashion for Relief Gala, among other brands. He released his most popular project, Friend or Foux, on 6 December 2019, which allowed him to sell out his first headline show at O2 Islington, two days later.
In the eventful year of 2020, months after releasing his most successful project to date Friend or Foux he started the year off collaborating with producer TM88 and local Juvie on “K-POP”.
In the month of May, Foux was scheduled to go on tour but that was stopped prematurely due to the pandemic. Sometime later in June, Lancey went onto release a pair of impactful singles that addressed current events and supported the Black Lives Matter movement. “TIME FOR WAR !I” and “RELAX !I”.
It wasn’t until later on that year in September Lancey would find himself being along side his muse Leomie on the front cover of Wonderland’s Autumn 2020 issue, along with that being a highlight of the year another was being the look book main model for Matthew M Williams' Givenchy Spring-Summer 2021 collection. In October he released “RIO FREESTYLE” exemplifying his lyrical ability and lifestyle, Before releasing his most anticipated unreleased song, “Off the Lead” with help from F1lthy of producing collective Working on Dying. To end the year, Lancey Foux announced the title of his sixth studio album LIFE IN HELL on his birthday 30 November, the album is due to release next year.
Not even a week later Lancey dropped
the project’s lead single, “Poison” featuring close friend Bakar on December 3, 2020.
On January 21, 2021, Lancey released his second single from his upcoming album titled “Steelo Flow”.
On March 12, 2021, Lancey surprised fans by releasing his first mixtape titled FIRST DEGREE.
