Creating a soundtrack to encapsulate the lawless, endless abyss that is the internet in 2025 feels like an impossible task, but LilJerrySpringer is trying his best.

Anywho, we wanted to know more about the mysterious LilJerrySpringer, like how he got linked up with Bronze, his deaf rapper brother, and his inspirations, so we called him up. Throw on a mix and enjoy the read.

How did you link up with Bronze 56K and start making music for them?
I put out a 21 Savage flip of Head In The Ceiling Fan by Title Fight in 2021 and Bronze put it in one of their Radio mixes. Then three months later they used that same song in one of their videos. I happened to be in Connecticut the same time Bronze was having a DIY party so I went and shot my shot. I walked up to Peter [Sidlauskas], the owner of Bronze, and I told him I’m the one who made that song.

We exchanged emails and after I dropped i hope you hate this shit vol 1 he called me up and he offered to platform me for vol 2. It went on their radio, and now they use my music and we collaborate on things.

Do you think most people know you because of Bronze Radio?
My fan base and the Bronze fan base definitely overlap, and there are for sure people who have no idea who I am, but that’s still really cool. I’m a small artist so it’s hard to find me, and I’ve only put out three mixtapes. But the way I am about music is that I like to indulge in it. I learn everything about it and really listen to the intricacies of a track. I think that a lot of people who appreciate my music are kinda the same way.

How long have you been liljerryspringer?
Since 2016. I used to wear these really thick rimmed glasses and whenever my hair grows long it curls, so my mom would call me Jerry Springer. It was my first Instagram name back when I used to make videos with my little brother Vinny. He’s the first deaf SoundCloud rapper.

No way.
Yeah, he had to have been the first one. When we first dropped a song it had like twenty thousand plays within six months. Technically that’s blowing up [laughs], but we weren’t really making music with that intention. Vinny would get blackout drunk and be like, “Yo, I want to rap,” and then we’d go in my room and chain smoke cigarettes. I would make beats and he would punch in and make bangers.

At one point somebody screen recorded one of our YouTube videos and it ended up getting passed around on Instagram. Asphalt Poser Club posted him and I think Thrasher too. But literally less than two weeks after that he got locked up, which was bad timing because we were going hard making music and doing videos at that time. I look back on those days like the glory days.

“He literally did six months in jail for a fucking can of Lipton iced tea.”

Why did he go to jail?
He tried to rob a CVS when he was really drunk with a brick. He destroyed his hand trying to take the cash register but he couldn’t get it to come out so he dipped and went next door to a Chinese restaurant and tried to break in and get shit too. He wasn’t able to get anything except for a cold Lipton iced tea can. So he literally did six months in jail for a fucking can of Lipton iced tea.

For those who haven’t heard your music, what’s the method to a signature liljerryspringer drop?
A lot of lurking on YouTube and Instagram reels. I pull a lot of shit from movies too. There’s this AI processor, ElevenLabs, that I use a lot where you feed recordings through it and it can make your voice sound like anything. I use Peter Griffin a lot, and I’ve used Ben Shapiro in the past and people don’t even notice it [laughs].

Do your mixes ever get taken down?
None of it gets copyrighted surprisingly, but it’s because I do little tricks like pitch alter everything very slightly. I always mess with the track lengths too so whenever it’s run through an AI music recognizer it won’t work. My songs would have to be scanned manually.

Would you say you’re terminally online?
I’ve always been an online person. I’ve met a lot of people through Instagram and sites like 4chan and 8chan for sure. When I was really young and I first started making music I was on Facebook heavily. There have been a bunch of people I’ve met through the internet first and then linked up in real life.

It’s easier to find a sense of community when it’s niche and you can see what all the people are influenced by rather than having to go out in real life and meet those people, which is pretty sick especially when I was first making music. Nowadays I’m pretty logged out though. I wouldn’t even know if the world was ending really unless my girlfriend told me.

“I wouldn’t even know if the world was ending really unless my girlfriend told me.”

Who are some people that inspire your sound?
SpaceGhostPurrp is probably number one. He’s a huge inspiration and from Florida too. He’s the pioneer of the resurgence of trap drum heavy cloud rap. His music sounded like nothing else. Now everybody sounds like him. I mean, even I try to sound like him [laughs]. Girl Talk is a huge inspiration too. He’s one of the pioneers of modern flip and stem cooking. He laid the groundwork for what I do. When I heard his music for the first time I was like twelve and I was like, “Dude, there’s nothing else that sounds like this in the world.”

I also take a lot of influence from skramz bands. Making things extremely emotive and sound clipping quote lines is really important to me. One of the bands that I first heard doing that was this band called Dikembe from Gainesville. They have a song called Scotty Spliffen where they have a thirty second Freaks and Geeks intro that builds really crazy.

And who are some artists you’re listening to heavily these days?
Marjorie W.C. Sinclair, also known as Evanora Unlimited. Also Reptilian Club Boyz with Diamondsonmydick and Hi-C, and Cartier God. I know it sounds like I’m saying internet word vomit but he’s so talented.

The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski is sick, he’s an orchestra producer but he makes Lo-fi records. He has this one album that I’ve been listening to, it’s eight hours long and it’s just this one orchestra loop that degrades from one side of the record to the other. It is supposed to emulate what having Alzheimer’s is like. The thing slowly just gets more drawn out and weird. I also listen to a lot of the Red House Painters, they are one of my favorite bands.

What’s your dream blunt rotation?
Mark Kozelek from Sun Kil Moon and the Red House Painters, SpaceGhostPurrp, Lil B, and
Sacha Baron Cohen, but as Bruno. That blunt rotation would be crazy [laughs].

There’s a level of anonymity to your musical persona. Why is that?
I didn’t start making music with the intention of people knowing who I am. I’m just the person that’s putting these things that already exist together. I’m just encapsulating shit that I’m inspired by and making something new in the process. Anybody could do what I do and there’s really no ego attached to what I do.

I care so much about music and like what I do and I don’t think that it’s imperative to decorate myself or advertise myself in a way that’s consumable. I think that it’s cool that what I do just exists on the Internet and people who find it, enjoy it.

“I don’t think that it’s imperative to decorate myself or advertise myself in a way that’s consumable.”

You just finished your first tour. Any stories from the road?
Laker asked me to DJ his set one night, and whenever you’re DJing for a rapper you’re just like playing the song and doing sound effects. But the DJ software on my laptop needed an update or something so we were gonna play shit off of SoundCloud because I have premium. We get to the last song and I press on it and a fucking ad plays. He looks at me and the fucking crowd erupts.
That was probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen at a show and it was my fault, too. Playing a SoundCloud ad during your set is pretty goated.

Why are your mixtapes only 20 minutes? Will the next ones be longer?
My idea is like, twenty minutes is the amount of time it takes to drive to work. That’s ideal for me because that’s where I listen to most of my music and I’m not skipping songs whenever I put shit on. It kind of mimics hardcore bands, songs that don’t go for more than a minute thirty seconds, it’s fast and done in twenty minutes. I think it’s more impactful whenever it’s shorter and condensed. If I did four minute remixes of every song, it’d be dry and kind of boring.

What are some things you want to see more of in life?
I don’t know? Money, power, respect. I want to see more people in music taking chances and pursuing passion projects. Not just making music to become popular, but to express themselves. There are a lot of outlets for kids to express themselves that are really negative and art and music is an awesome outlet for people who are struggling with different things in their personal life like addiction and depression. Music’s an auditory drug, it’s like such a release when you listen to it and there’s no consequences when you indulge in it. 


“Fuck the industry. Listen to Triple F Life by Waka Flocka Flame.”

What do you wanna see less of?
Don’t let people who aren’t contributing to the scene as a whole come in and take bread off of you just because it’s convenient. As artists we should collaborate only with our homies. 
And if you’re going to make any bread, at least do that with your homies. Fuck the industry. Listen to Triple F Life by Waka Flocka Flame.

Interview by: Leo Hughes
Photos by: LilJerryIncorporated
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