Arden Jones is an American rapper from Orange, California. Jones studied film in high school at the Marin School for the Arts and went to college at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Jones was bought up in a musical household, his father having played in a rock band and his mother being a journalist and poet, and was exposed to rock, jazz and blues from a young age. Jones taught himself how to play the piano, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and stand-up bass. Jones began releasing music to SoundCloud in 2021 and had gained attention after his debut single, "Parallel Parking", went viral on TikTok and Spotify and had charted on Spotify's Viral 50 in Australia and New Zealand. Soon after the popularity of his single, Jones dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to focus on his music career. Atlantic Records signed with Jones in January after they found him on TikTok and had his demo finished in two weeks.