A Raleigh, North Carolina native, Pendergrass moved to Nashville to study commercial music at Belmont University. At the end of 2020, Pendergrass got word he earned a coveted spot on Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album with “865”. He was the only un-signed writer on the 30-song project. Back Blocks Music announced the signing of its flagship songwriter Blake Pendergrass to an exclusive, worldwide publishing agreement in 2021. 

Blake Pendergrass went from “865” to 8 songs on Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time, including “Dying Man” and “Ain’t That Some”, moving on to have 15 cuts on Wallen’s newest album, I’m The Problem, including a 100% solo write, “The Dealer (feat. ERNEST). Blake has hit country radio with 8 songs in the past year including 4 No. 1 songs; Jelly Roll’s “Heart Of Stone”, and Morgan Wallen’s “20 Cigarettes,”“I Got Better” and “Just In Case,” going #1 on country radio for 4 consecutive weeks. Blake is also a part of three Grammy nominated albums with Lainey Wilson’s “Broken Hearts Still Beat”, Post Malone’s “Who Needs You”, Conner Smith’s “Steal My Thunder (feat. Tucker Wetmore) [From Twisters: The Album]”, and 7 songs on Jelly Roll’s Gramming winning album, Beautifully Broken. Plus many more with Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett, Jordan Davis, Chase Matthew, Ashley Cooke, Nate Smith, Tucker Wetmore, Dylan Marlowe, Wyatt Flores, Dustin Lynch, Chase Rice, Jake Owen, etc., adding up to over 1 billion streams in total.Writes with AJ Pruis, Cam Bedell, Lukas Scott, Dave Barnes, Lauren Hungate, Ricky Manning, Cole Miracle, Tofer Brown, Hank Compton, Chris August, etc.