Packy
Packy
Patrick “Packy” Duda is an up-and-coming artist who is signed by and is co-owner of The Specktators Collective. Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, Packy began as the emcee in rapper/producer duo, The Specktators. Their first—but unofficial—project was The Never Ending Mixtape, in which songs were released monthly from October 2009 to January 2011. In October of 2011, The Specktators hit the scene with their first official mixtape, Familiar with Floss. This mixtape was followed up by two more, The Sunroom and About That Life. A handful of songs were taken from these mixtapes to create a compilation album called The Transition.
In December 2013, The Specktators relocated to Los Angeles, California, and released their first official album, The Parlay, which would debut at #6 on the iTunes Hip-Hop chart. In 2014, The Specktators moved back to Michigan and transitioned into an independent label headed by Matt “Moe-T” Duda (the producer half of The Specktators) while Packy became a solo artist under the label that he helped to build.
Packy would go on to release two more albums, Same Difference in 2014 and Mad Lifey in 2016, as well as one mixtape, Area 51 in 2017. Later that year and throughout 2018 and 2019, Packy released 28 “inkblot” singles as a way to provide fans with new music consistently. This led to the release of his third album, Guess You Had To Be There, in 2020.