Born in 1994 as Dallas Cotton, Yung Bae began as a music producer based out of Portland, Oregon. He attended the Oregon State University for four months before turning to music full time. His first full album was titled Bae. He has since moved and begun working out of Los Angeles. Yung Bae works in the Future Funk and Vaporwave subgenres, releasing tracks online through sites like Bandcamp—he released eight in total on that site. These received several million streams on Spotify.