Open Apple Music in New York and the credit reads Hot Intent & Sorry Not Jomari. Open it in Madrid, and the same two-minute file, same waveform, same featured vocal, is billed to CLIFF HUNDO & Sorry Not Jomari. No press release explains the split. No artist has ever spoken about it. As of 2026-07, nobody has established that Cliff Hundo is a person at all, and nobody has ruled it out either.
One Song, Two Names, Nine Storefronts
The track at the center of the puzzle is HUNDO, released April 19, 2024, a dance-genre single running roughly two minutes and built around a featured vocal from Dutch Melrose, the Los Angeles alt-pop artist who founded MADKID Records. On U.S., Singaporean, Hong Kong, Croatian and Italian storefronts, and on Amazon Music everywhere, the release belongs to Hot Intent and Sorry Not Jomari. On Spanish, Russian-language, Fijian and Canadian storefronts, the identical file carries a different headline name: CLIFF HUNDO.
Everything else about the release, the runtime, the release date, the featured artist, the second collaborator, matches across every version. Only the lead credit changes, and it changes by country rather than by any documented artistic decision.
The Paper Trail That Isn't There
Look for a biography and the search ends almost immediately. There is no Instagram, TikTok, X account, YouTube channel, SoundCloud page or Genius profile under either Hot Intent or Cliff Hundo. No interview exists. No hometown, birth year or legal name has surfaced anywhere. The earliest release tied to the credit, a 2023 single called LIKE THIS, is billed on Amazon Music to Hot Intent & Cheaze, with no Cliff Hundo variant attached at all. The alternate spelling appears to originate a full year later, and only on a subset of storefronts, attached to HUNDO.
The closest thing to independent confirmation is a listing on the ringtone aggregator ToneMela, which carries a single ringtone titled "HUNDO" tagged to CLIFF HUNDO. Even that isn't outside corroboration so much as a mirror of Apple's own metadata, one database echoing another.
Two names, one song, and not a single interview to tell you which one is real.
Not a MADKID Signing
Because Dutch Melrose is attached to the track, the obvious next question is whether Cliff Hundo belongs to his label. MADKID Records' official roster lists exactly seven acts: Dutch Melrose, benny mayne, Ashley Sienna, Natalia Marion, Harry Was Here, Pretty Havøc and Rad Cat. Neither Cliff Hundo, Hot Intent nor Sorry Not Jomari appears on it. HUNDO's copyright line reads "℗ 2024 Were Not Sorry," a rights holder entirely separate from MADKID, which handles Dutch Melrose's solo catalog. Apple Music even tags the single Dance rather than Pop, breaking it out of his primary genre classification.
The likeliest explanation, laid out in MADKID Records: The Label Behind Dutch Melrose, is that HUNDO was simply an outside guest feature, one stop on a pattern of dance-genre cameos that Dutch Melrose has made a habit of, cataloged more broadly in The Dutch Melrose Collaboration Map. Apple's own recommendation engine still slots HUNDO next to confirmed MADKID tracks by benny mayne, Harry Was Here and Rad Cat & Izzy Arden, but that is proximity in a sonic lane, not evidence of a contract.
What the Record Actually Shows
Strip away the speculation and what remains is a metadata inconsistency, not a mystery with a satisfying reveal. A track was released under one artist credit, a subset of storefronts render that credit differently, and no human being has ever stepped forward, under either name, to say which version is correct or whether they are the same person at all. Sorry Not Jomari, the second credited act on HUNDO, is an equally blank page: no prior catalog, no biography, no social presence.
What HUNDO leaves behind is a small case study in how fragile an artist identity can be once it passes through enough distribution pipelines. A song can travel the world in seconds. Apparently the name attached to it cannot always travel with it intact. The Cliff Hundo credit remains, as of 2026-07, exactly what it has always been: a name that exists because a database says so, in some countries, and doesn't, in others.