on september 22, 2016, haynes released his debut mixtape, "tunnel vision", on soundcloud, itunes and spotify. this was an unexpected project that haynes had been working on over the summer of that year. on february 21, 2017, haynes released his second mixtape, "the rise", on itunes, soundcloud and spotify. he also spoken on his podcast and on twitter about his next musical project being released under a new identity of "arsenio" and being of a different style to his previous projects.