October 4: Lil Pump Heads Downtown
ComplexCon occupies two of downtown Los Angeles’s biggest stages this weekend. Its marketplace fills the Los Angeles Convention Center with fashion, sneakers, art, and music; its concerts take over Crypto.com Arena. The tenth-anniversary program names Playboi Carti and Hiroshi Fujiwara as artistic directors, with Carti headlining Sunday’s concert. It is a weekend designed around the idea that a clothing drop, a performance, and a gathering of fans can all be part of the same culture story.
Code Red wants to carry some of that energy into the night. The Los Angeles promoter has announced Lil Pump for October 4, billing the event as its ComplexCon afterparty. Its flyer names Don Krez, Sakuraxo, Ava Jane, Cherise, and Denkai alongside Pump, and promises special guests without identifying them. Code Red’s flyer dates the event for October 4, while its caption uses relative timing. It describes a secret location in downtown Los Angeles and gives no street address or set time. Check the organizer’s current page before making plans.
The combination reads as deliberate. Pump became famous through a form of rap built to seize attention immediately. Code Red’s programming centers the physical force of hard techno. Put them on one bill and the question becomes bigger than whether a rapper can make a surprise appearance at a rave: what happens when two audiences that already share a taste for intensity meet in the same room?
That question has been running through Code Red’s calendar for months. Its May “Infiltrate” listing advertised Ski Mask the Slump God as a guest and gave NVBEEL a DJ set. A September Lil Mosey event again placed NVBEEL among the supporting DJs at 1720 Warehouse. Later that month, Code Red’s Ski Mask and Palacio listing named NVBEEL in its promotion. The sequence continued with Køzløv and NVBEEL on October 2, DEAD X on October 3, and the October 4 Pump announcement.
Each listing is an announcement, not a firsthand account of what happened inside the venue. Taken together, though, they document the direction Code Red is advertising: a hard techno series increasingly willing to put recognizable rap names beside its resident and supporting DJs.
Why Lil Pump Brings Smokepurpp Into the Conversation
Pump’s appearance also points back to the music era that helped make these crossovers imaginable. In a 2023 interview with Complex, Pump recalled recording his earliest songs with basic equipment after encouragement from Smokepurpp. The two went on to make records together, including 2018’s “Nephew” and a later “Smoke Wit Us” video.
Their history gives Pump’s name context beyond a nostalgic booking. Pitchfork’s account of the SoundCloud rap generation described how artists used a low-barrier platform to build audiences before traditional gatekeepers could decide whether to support them. Pump and Smokepurpp were two visible figures in that wave. Code Red is putting one of those figures into a different live context, years after the first surge of SoundCloud-era attention.
That is the documented connection to Smokepurpp. Smokepurpp is not listed on Code Red’s October 4 flyer, and a recording or performance with NVBEEL has not been confirmed. The connection runs through Pump’s recorded history and the wider rap circle that Code Red is booking.
The Producer Behind the Next Story
For NVBEEL, the Code Red events are one part of a career that began well before his name appeared on club flyers. His Instagram profile identifies him as a music producer and a Code Red resident. The label credits for Ski Mask the Slump God’s “OOGA BOOGA!” identify him more fully as Nabeel “NVBEEL” Safi-Tarin and list him as a producer and additional mixer on the 2022 single.
That credit did not appear from nowhere. In 2019, wifisfuneral published “NO TRUST” with an NVBEEL production credit. In 2022, NVBEEL posted “Can’t Relate” with Matt Ox. Japanese rapper Leon Fanourakis’s “FLIP” also carries a DVMN NVBEEL composition credit. Those releases show different routes for a producer’s work: an underground upload, a direct artist collaboration, and a credited contribution reaching another market.
The Ski Mask relationship gives that path a clear through line. On 11th Dimension, Ski Mask’s 2024 album, published credits list NVBEEL as a producer on “Frozen One,” “KillStreak,” and “Jump.” His connection to Ski Mask therefore predates their appearances in Code Red promotion. When Code Red put Ski Mask on its bills, it was drawing on an artist with whom its resident producer already had a documented recording history.
Producer credits can be easy for a casual listener to miss. A song arrives under the rapper’s name; the person who helped construct it appears farther down the page. NVBEEL’s recent releases complicate that familiar arrangement. He has been putting his name next to the performers’ names, making the producer part of the record’s public identity.
In June 2024, NVBEEL and Bear1Boss released the five-track LEVELS EP. Later that year, he and UnoTheActivist issued the four-song Adventure Time EP. They followed it with Adventure Time 2, a five-song release dated January 9, 2026. NVBEEL’s “Fung Shui” single arrived in June.
That run is worth reading as a progression, rather than as a list of names attached to beats. NVBEEL has credits on major rap releases, repeat collaborators who make full projects with him, and records that appear under his own artist profile. Code Red adds a fourth element: a place where an audience can encounter him in person and hear music before it reaches streaming platforms.
Code Red as a Testing Ground
A September 16 Instagram reel gives the clearest public glimpse of what comes next. NVBEEL wrote that he and Shelby Carter had performed a new song live at Code Red. He described it as coming from “my new EP coming soon with @codered.la” and posted a snippet while asking listeners when they wanted the full track.
There is a useful tension in that announcement. It is specific enough to establish that new music exists and has been performed. It leaves the project’s title, release date, track list, and final credits open. The audience has heard a piece of the work before receiving a formal release announcement. For a producer who is also a resident DJ, that order makes sense: the club can be where a song first has to hold people’s attention.
The Code Red bills show how often NVBEEL has been positioned in that setting. At the May Ski Mask event, the published schedule assigned him a set. At the Lil Mosey event in September, he appeared among the announced supporting artists. For the October 2 Køzløv show, he was listed with Ojjisin, Energ, and Denkai. These are different lineups, yet they repeatedly put him at the point where Code Red’s rap bookings and harder dance music intersect.
It would be easy to collapse all these names into one rumored collaboration. The records and event announcements support a more interesting, more precise picture. NVBEEL produced for Ski Mask; Code Red has booked them both. Code Red is now advertising Lil Pump; Pump has a long recorded history with Smokepurpp. NVBEEL is preparing an EP with Code Red and has previewed a song with Shelby Carter. Those connections form a scene. They do not prove that every artist in it is making a record or performing together.
What Comes After October 4
Lil Pump gives Code Red an immediate October 4 headline. NVBEEL provides the longer story. The evidence stretches from a 2019 wifisfuneral credit to a 2022 Ski Mask single, a 2024 album, collaborative EPs, a 2026 single, repeated Code Red bookings, and an unreleased song played live. His next release will show how those parts of his work come together on record.
For now, NVBEEL has publicly called the forthcoming Code Red release an EP. No separate album announcement, title, or date has been verified for this story. Until those details arrive, the strongest preview is the one he has already offered: a new Shelby Carter song heard first in the room where he is a resident.
The Connections, Clearly
| Connection | What the public record shows |
|---|---|
| NVBEEL + Code Red | NVBEEL lists himself as a resident and appears on multiple Code Red event bills. |
| NVBEEL + Ski Mask | Label and album credits document production work. |
| NVBEEL + Shelby Carter | NVBEEL posted a live preview of their unreleased song. |
| Code Red + Lil Pump | Code Red announced Pump for October 4. |
| Lil Pump + Smokepurpp | Their released recordings include “Nephew” and “Smoke Wit Us”. |
Listen and Watch
- Start with the production credit: Ski Mask the Slump God’s “OOGA BOOGA!” names NVBEEL as a producer and additional mixer.
- Hear the sustained collaboration: UnoTheActivist and NVBEEL’s Adventure Time 2 is their January 2026 five-track EP.
- Hear the latest listed release: “Fung Shui” arrived in June 2026.
- See the next project taking shape: NVBEEL’s Code Red clip with Shelby Carter previews an unreleased song.
- Follow the Pump–Smokepurpp history: Watch “Smoke Wit Us”.
October 4 event information: Code Red’s announcement names Lil Pump and the supporting artists, but describes the DTLA location as secret. Check Code Red’s current page for entry and location updates.
This source-led feature uses published event listings, label and platform credits, artist posts, and Complex’s published event guide. Event listings describe announced bills; they do not establish who performed, attended or collaborated in the room. Code Red calls its October 4 event a ComplexCon afterparty; no official ComplexCon affiliation is asserted here.