Oliver began releasing music in the fall of 2020 with the mixtape “The Older I Get”, which was comprised of original songs as well as remixes of famous hip-hop tracks. The mixtape was “the first act” of a trilogy, which Oliver dubbed the “Gone Too Soon…” trilogy of mixtapes. After the positive response to the mixtape, Oliver released a series of singles, two of which had features from Marceli.
Eventually, he released his second mixtape, Conversations, in mid-2021. “Conversations” took a more melodic approach compared to his previous effort, though the influences of Kanye’s early flows could still be heard on a number of tracks. After just under a year of sparse single releases and production credits, Oliver returned in 2022 with his third mixtape, “Since Last Year”.
Since Last Year, stylized as S.L.Y, was his biggest project yet with a number of features from fellow U.K. artists as well as people overseas. S.L.Y marked the ending of the trilogy. S.L.Y demonstrated the evolution that Oliver Walker’s music had gone through over the past three years.
