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Dave Blunts

American rapper and singer (born 2001)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ131299386 ↗
Source-derived summary

Davion Blessing (born July 1, 2000), known professionally as Dave Blunts, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He gained popularity in December 2024 after videos of him performing while using an oxygen tank went viral and yielded public concern for his health.

Blunts began recording and releasing music in 2018. In 2024, he started uploading videos to TikTok, quickly gaining popularity. His 2024 song "The Cup" went viral on the platform. In June 2024, Blunts released his debut studio album, Well Dude Here's My Thing. His second studio album, If I Could I Would, was released in October.

In April 2025, Blunts released his third studio album, You Can't Say That. That same year, Blunts began working with American rapper Kanye West, writing the majority of his unreleased studio album, Cuck. Blunts has been reported as the sole songwriter for the album's three singles: "WW3", "Cousins", and "Heil Hitler".

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“Dave Blunts” enters the record as american rapper and singer (born 2001). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dave, Blunts and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2024, 2018, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-07-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dave, Blunts and American.
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Why this record matters

“Dave Blunts” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dave, Blunts and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131299386. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2024, 2018 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dave Blunts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.