Dating & Relationship status

O’Connor and his manager Elliott O’Connor (his brother) have both stated that major labels have shown interest in signing him. According to Max Bell of LA Weekly, “interested labels wanted him to be their ‘white rapper,’ an artist along the lines of Mac Miller and Machine Gun Kelly. But O’Connor wasn’t interested in being remade.”

O’Connor resides in Glendale, California with his fiancée Samantha Strysko, whom he met at Disneyland. In March 2019, O’Connor announced that he and Strysko were expecting their first child. On 19 August 2019, the child grew up and was named Howl Timothy O’Connor.

O’Connor released 10 albums between 2015 and 2017 and on January 19, 2018, O’Connor performed in KOKO, London, thus starting his first ever European tour, called the Deadboy Tour. It took him to countries such as Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Italy.

O’Connor uploaded several albums in 2015 and headlined his first sold out show at House of Blues on March 4, 2015 before opening for electronic artist Shlohmo at The Fonda Theatre. O’Connor was later featured on ASAP Rocky’s “Canal St.” which was a remix of O’Connor’s song “Dirt.” The song later became O’Connor’s first feature on the Billboard charts. Bones performed “Canal St.” with ASAP Rocky on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, but was cut from the TV broadcast due to him refusing to censor some of the song’s lyrics while performing. Videos of the performance were made available online. In May 2015, O’Connor and GREAF started releasing songs under a second side project called “OREGONTRAIL”. The project is stylistically similar to surrenderdorothy, but has been noted as having a “darker” and “rougher” tone. Since 2015, the duo have released 7 singles as OREGONTRAIL.

On July 4, 2012, O’Connor released his eponymous debut album under the alias “BONES”. From 2012 to 2014 he released 12 albums before gaining journalistic attention for his 2014 album TeenWitch, which gained controversy for its themes based around the Columbine High School Massacre. The album following TeenWitch, titled Garbage was released on June 9, 2014 and was the first of O’Connors albums to gain the attention of major music publications such as Complex Magazine and The Fader who labelled the project as “massive” and “boundary-pushing.” In April 2014, O’Connor, along with TeamSESH producer GREAF formed “surrenderdorothy”, a side project that is notably less focused on rap, with a stronger focus on acoustic guitar and singing, with stylistic similarities to indie rock and emo rap. Although O’Connor does experiment with this style in his solo work, surrenderdorothy features it much more predominantly. Since 2014, the duo have released 6 EP’s as surrenderdorothy.

O’Connor is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in the internet’s underground hip-hop scene. Since 2010, O’Connor has released an extensive discography and developed a large fan base. As of 2019, he has released over 80 albums, mixtapes and EPs across several aliases.

O’Connor first started making music at the age of nine after his father purchased an iMac G3. He would download hip-hop instrumentals from SoundClick and use the computers built-in microphone to record himself rapping, though it wasn’t until 2010 at the age of 16 that he would start releasing music online under the alias “[email protected] Kid”. After moving to Los Angeles, O’Connor was able to connect with other artists he met online including Xavier Wulf, Chris Travis, and Eddy Baker, who at the time were members of the now semi-disbanded Raider Klan. He later officially changed his stage name to Bones in 2012.

Elmo Kennedy O’Connor (born January 11, 1994), known professionally as Bones (often stylized as BONES), is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Howell, Michigan. He is also the founder of the music collective TeamSESH.