Bundy Santana

Bundy Santana—formerly known as Kidd.Cynical—is an Afro-Latino artist from Hazel Crest, Illinois, whose sound haunts the space between alternative hip-hop, rap, R&B, and soul. His early work as Kidd.Cynical, including tracks like “Pavement Slaves” and “Baphomets in Babylon,” served as prophetic whispers—gritty dispatches from the edge of identity, depression, and survival.

But it was his transformation into Bundy Santana that marked a spiritual rupture. Bundy is not just a name—it’s a vessel. He emerged as Chicago’s wandering spirit, a ghost-rapper tethered to the city’s cracked sidewalks and ancestral echoes. His debut project, Mariquito Duppy—named after the Spanish word for “ladybug” and the Jamaican patois for “ghost”—is a folklore of rebirth. Written after a near-death experience, the album floats between planes, tracking Bundy’s descent into chaos and his supernatural return as an artist shaped by death, memory, and shadow.