ILOVEMAKONNEN & Yellow Trash Can: ‘CONTROL’ and the Left-Field Evolution of Everything is Fake

ILOVEMAKONNEN and Yellow Trash Can have joined forces on a collaboration that sits outside traditional genre lines. Their project Everything is Fake moves through alt-rap, left-field pop, rock textures and a late-night internet-influenced style that feels loose and unpredictable rather than polished in a conventional sense.

The collaboration brings together Atlanta artist ILOVEMAKONNEN and Portland-based Yellow Trash Can, a project led by Jason Navarrete with Jitta On The Track also involved in the wider creative output. Yellow Trash Can works across alternative rock, rap, pop and experimental production, which gives the project a flexible and genre-blending sound.

Everything is Fake reflects that approach in a direct way. The album moves between distorted guitars, melodic rap and off-kilter pop ideas that do not follow a single clear formula. It feels shaped by contrast, shifting between accessible hooks and more unusual production choices without settling into one lane.

The focus track, CONTROL, captures that direction. It is a clean radio edit built for alt and indie spaces as well as freeform and hip-hop adjacent playlists. The track combines distorted rock textures with melodic rap delivery and a stripped-back left-field pop structure, making it suited to discovery-driven listening environments such as blogs and playlists.

The release also follows recent momentum from Yellow Trash Can, including their collaboration with KEY! on the album Kinda Sober Vol1. That project helped further establish their position in a space where alternative rap, experimental production and genre-crossing ideas overlap.

Overall, CONTROL and Everything is Fake show a shared focus on blending styles rather than fitting into them. The result is music that moves between rock, rap and pop without treating any of those categories as fixed.