Yung Gravy

Matthew Raymond Hauri, known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper. He first gained widespread attention through songs released on SoundCloud, blending trap music with vintage soul and funk elements.

Hauri was born on March 19, 1996, in Rochester, Minnesota. His father, Peter Johannes Hauri (1933–2013), was a Swiss-born psychologist who specialized in treating insomnia, and his mother is psychiatrist Cynthia Cleveland Hauri. Hauri graduated from Mayo High School in 2014 and later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a marketing degree in December 2017.

While attending college, Hauri developed branding strategies for startup companies and founded several businesses of his own. Inspired by rappers such as Lil Yachty and Lil Peep, he launched his music career on SoundCloud. In 2017, he quit his other jobs to focus entirely on music, spending months self-recording songs. He gained breakout recognition for his 2017 tracks "Mr. Clean" and "1 Thot 2 Thot Red Thot Blue Thot," both of which gained traction on SoundCloud and received platinum certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He is associated with the SoundCloud rap era and frequently works with Canadian rapper bbno$, with whom he has released two collaborative albums and an extended play.

Hauri's overall discography includes one mixtape, four albums, and seven extended plays. His 2022 single "Betty (Get Money)" marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching number 30 and earning a platinum certification. Over his career, he has collaborated with artists such as Lil Baby, Juicy J, T-Pain, Dillon Francis, and Lil Wayne, as well as media personality Martha Stewart. In 2025, he voiced the character Golem, a large sentient clay construct, in the video game Dispatch.

Yung Gravy has also made notable public and sports event appearances. In April 2021, the Tampa Bay Lightning professional hockey team inscribed the title of his song "Gravy Train"—used as a post-game victory track—on their 2020 Stanley Cup championship rings. In 2022, he gave a pregame performance for the Thanksgiving Day NFL game between the Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots, and performed "Betty (Get Money)" on both Jimmy Kimmel Live and the MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show. In January 2023, he performed at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado, and competed against professional freeskier Tom Wallisch in the Special Olympics Unified Skiing event.

Musically, Yung Gravy blends trap with vintage sounds inspired by 1950s and 1960s soul alongside 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s funk. His song "Gravy Train" samples Maxine Nightingale's 1976 track "Right Back Where We Started From," while "Mr. Clean" samples the 1954 song "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes. Described as amusing, energetic, authentic, and bold, his sound draws from diverse influences including Outkast, Three 6 Mafia, Smokey Robinson, and The Blackbyrds. Yung Gravy stands 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 meters) tall, though he has mentioned being 6 feet 6 inches in a song to fit lyrical flow.