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Odd Future, the hip-hop collective of Tyler The Creator–MTV’s best new artist of the year–recently announced they signed the first artist to their OFWGKTA’s imprint.

Rapper Young Ni**a, the first artist to sign the to the Sony/RED backed OFWGKTA record label, debuted his first single, “Come Threw Looking Clean” with the announcement.

A statement from Odd Future’s publicist reads: “While our original intent was not to sign anyone to the label we simply could not pass up the opportunity to sign somebody this talented.”

Read more at the Grio.

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