Ashton Autin, professionally known as Coolest is an American rapper and songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is most notable for his work with $uicideboy$ member Scott Arceneaux, Jr. Other monikers include Idil Tha Frontrunner, Coolest White Boy, and A Jay.
Autin’s work can be traced as far back as 2009, mentioning the release a mixtape called The Rewind on his now-defunct Twitter account. This mixtape was published on DatPiff and produced by Arceneaux, who was nineteen/twenty at the time. It is very likely Autin was one of the very first people Arceneaux would link up with in music.
Autin continued his work with Arceneaux in the following years. Real Like True Stories dropped 2010, which features vocals from Arceneaux for the very first time. He also released The Defendant, which has a considerable amount of features from small artists, as well as a free-style over Lex Luger’s infamous Hard in da Paint production that also features Arceneaux on vocals. Both of these tapes were largely produced, mixed, and hosted by Arceneaux.
Eventually, Arceneaux would move onto creating his own tapes but work with Autin continued. Autin is heavily featured on Arceneaux’s debut mixtape, with one song crediting him as the primary artist. He also has multiple features across Arceneaux’s #DrugFlow duology. #DrugFlow 2 would be the final tape Arceneaux and Autin feature on a song together, but their collaborations continued beyond this.
Arceneaux continued producing beats for Autin. Many of these were from a since-deleted mixtape called “Coldfront”, but remain as singles on his SoundCloud. Around this time he’d also begin associating with members of Melo D Productions and DUBSquadron, such as DJ Dizzi, Dante Cage, Chetta, and Rahzo.
At some point after 2014, Autin ceased any further work in musicmaking and no longer releases any material. He continues to have a presence on social media to this day.
Coolest's first album Real Like True Stories released on Mon Nov 29 2010.
The most popular album by Coolest's is Real Like True Stories
The most popular song by Coolest's is Hard In Da Paint
Coolest's first song Hard In Da Paint released on Thu Sep 29 2011.