From Rap to Rock to Film: Ryo Wattson Keeps Evolving

The Las Vegas artist known as urbloodybunny moves between hip-hop, rock and acting — and his next chapter is a heavier one.

Las Vegas artist Ryo Wattson, aka urbloodybunny, isn’t particularly interested in staying inside one creative lane.

Moving between hip-hop, alternative music, rock and acting, the young Vegas native is building an identity around experimentation — and he’s still discovering just how far he wants to take it.

BTSLV caught up with Wattson to learn more about the artist behind the music, where that creativity started and why acting has become an increasingly important part of what comes next.

For Wattson, music started early.

“I got into music when I was seven,” Wattson tells BTSLV. “My mother handed me a Walkman and an Eminem CD when we ended up moving. After listening to that whole album, I started writing.”

He never really stopped.

As his musical taste developed, however, it stretched well beyond hip-hop. Wattson grew up listening to rock and metal, influences that eventually pushed him toward the heavier sounds of trap-metal and alternative music.

That crossover is already visible in his catalog. While much of his work falls under hip-hop and rap, his 2025 single “Epithelial” leaned directly into rock. Wattson has also expressed an interest in eventually becoming part of a band and is now looking toward a larger rock and alternative project of his own.

His latest album, BLOODY REMEDIES (SIDE A), arrived in April 2026 and features 10 tracks, including “SHOULDER LEAN,” “DAMN SHAME,” “BITTER” and “ASH KATCHEM.” The project joins an increasingly deep independent catalog that includes SOME DAY IN SEPTEMBER, Shattered Reflections, No One Should See This… and azer0.

But music is only part of the story.

Wattson discovered acting almost by accident during his final year of high school after joining an ex-girlfriend at an audition for a school play.

“I thought, why not?” he recalls.

He landed the role on the spot.

The experience shifted his perception of what he was capable of and opened another creative door.

“It made me feel a lot better about myself knowing I could do something I would’ve never thought I could do,” Wattson says.

After graduation, his sister sent him another audition opportunity. Again, Wattson decided to take the chance.

He auditioned and landed the lead role of Jordan in POSER, a Las Vegas-set short film written and directed by Trae Rojo. The film follows a teenage skateboarder with dreams of going pro who is forced to grow up quickly while dealing with his older brother’s gambling debt and navigating Las Vegas skate culture.

For Wattson, some of that world already felt familiar.

Skateboarding has been a longtime passion alongside basketball, working out and, perhaps most importantly, learning. He describes himself as someone constantly searching for something new to understand, whether it falls comfortably inside his existing interests or pushes him somewhere unfamiliar.

That curiosity now extends deeper into filmmaking.

Wattson tells BTSLV he wants to pursue acting more seriously because of the transformation the craft requires — stepping outside yourself, becoming another person and convincing an audience, even temporarily, that the character they’re watching is real.

Still, music remains at the center of the larger vision.

The long-term goal isn’t simply streams or numbers. Wattson wants to build the kind of dedicated audience that allows him to create music and films for a living, tour internationally and make records capable of giving listeners a feeling they haven’t experienced before.

For an emerging artist raised in Las Vegas, the combination of music, acting and skate culture gives Wattson an interesting canvas to work from.

Rather than deciding whether he is a rapper, an alternative artist or an actor, Wattson seems far more interested in discovering what happens when all of those worlds collide.

And if his next chapter sounds a little heavier, that’s intentional.

A larger rock and alternative project is coming.

Wattson just isn’t interested in rushing it.

For an artist whose career so far has been built around trying things simply because they intrigue him, that may be the most consistent part of his creative philosophy: take the chance, explore the idea and figure out where it leads.

The goal is to get it right first.