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The song made the Puerto Rican Bronx native the first female rapper to score a solo No. In addition to "Bodak Yellow," appearances on G-Eazy's "No Limit" and Migos' "Motorsport" kept Cardi's voice in heavy rotation, making her the runaway rookie of the year for A True Story , which debuted at No.
And with a sequel to the EP on the way and a major label debut album looming in , Dave East is on the cusp of elevating himself into elite territory.
In , Kap G proved that hard work pays off. Having found himself on the national radar on the strength of singles like "Rings" and the gold-certified "Girlfriend," Kap G is among the hottest Latin stars to win big in and is a reminder of hip-hop's community of multi-cultural talent.
Lil Pump's popularity reached a fever pitch during the past year, with singles like "D Rose" and "Gucci Gang"—the latter of which peaked at No. After trading in his camera for a mic and recording his first song in , Lil Xan has hit the ground running , releasing a slew of buzzworthy tracks, most notably his single "Betrayed," which peaked at No. With his debut album, Total Xanarchy, on the docket for the first quarter of , Lil Xan's name is one that will be ringing bells for the foreseeable future.
The daughter of an Puerto Rican mother and an African-American father, Nitty Scott, who called Michigan and Florida home before landing in New York City to pursue her rap career, has been one of the more active females in rap this decade, releasing acclaimed projects and sparing with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Styles P, Rapsody and Action Bronson. In , Nitty Scott liberated her latest body of work, Creature! The son of Cuban and Persian parents, Miami rapper Pouya has been one of the artists at the forefront of South Florida's newfound reputation as the most fertile breeding ground for rap talent in hip-hop.
One of the initial acts to spark an interest in his area's indie scene, Pouya has continued to be instrumental in putting South Florida back on the national radar in , joining forces with Fat Nick for the collaborative album Drop Out of School , which dropped this past February. Previously known as Wavy Spice and Destiny, Princess Nokia has become a beacon of feminism and true-school values when it comes to New York City rap, a scene she has become all but synonymous with. Gaining critical acclaim and strengthening her buzz, Deluxe played a major role in making Princess Nokia's a breakout year, as she translated the immense hype surrounding her return into tangible success.
Casual rap fans may know her from her appearance on the Oxygen reality TV series Sisterhood of Hip Hop , but those who are privy to New York's most formidable young spitters are more than familiar with Siya, who has built a reputation as a sharp-spitting lyricist. Those tracks, along with his collaborations with fellow Floridian Lil Pump, would precede the producer-turned-rapper's debut mixtape Deadstar , which peaked at No.
He's like a drunk uncle, just saying all these crazy random things. And I just hope he doesn't say some very drunk uncle-ish things to the wrong person and just end the fucking world.
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But other than that, what's he really gonna do? Is he gonna build the wall? I mean, even if he does, Mexicans know how to do everything. We'll figure it out. You've rapped about Obama deporting more people than any past president.
Do you think there's a connection between that and Clinton capturing less of the Latino vote than Obama, despite all of the hostile things that Trump has said? Honestly, I think that goes more to show the divide within the Latin community. That's really the reason I dropped "Despierta," was to speak to Latin people and just say that, if we don't get it together and realize that we are all the same, this guy is gonna win.
And obviously people don't think we're all the same. There are certain Latin people that don't like Mexicans, you know what I'm saying? And there are certain Latin people that think they're better than other Latin people.
Which is almost even worse than other types of racism, because it's among ourselves. So at the end of the day, it's sad that somebody can say all these things about building the wall and Mexicans being "bad hombres," and people still support it. In New Orleans, back in the early s, there were black social clubs that would have a brown paper bag test. And if your skin was darker than the paper bag, you couldn't be part of that club.
It's as if our society is somehow set up to create that kind of conflict. And I think that whoever is actually running it relies on that separation. Why else, after you have a black president, would there be such a crazy turnout for someone who's saying the most racist things? There are a lot of people relying on there still being racism in this country, and I don't really know how we can end it.
Because going out there and looting, or protesting in a way that's not peaceful, is gonna have the reverse effect.
I understand you went to college to become a social worker before pursuing your musical career. Why did you decide to go with music? I had barely started college when I started getting into the music thing, and one of the first things they had us read was College Is a Waste of Time and Money by [feminist author] Caroline Bird.
And it was like, if you're here to make your parents happy, or if you're not here for the right reasons, you might as well just leave because it doesn't make any sense. And I was like, I really am just here for my mom. Like I could do whatever I want to do, regardless.
He faded for a few years but now seems to be coming back stronger. Do you think there's a connection between that and Clinton capturing less of the Latino vote than Obama, despite all of the hostile things that Trump has said? Share Tweet Email 0. She denied a relationship with Niall Horan , but they've been spotted together a time or two. Just two albums, a handful of mix-tapes, and some phenomenal freestyles, were his only legacy. I've mostly lived in Hispanic communities, but for a while my mom was able to live in low-income housing that was kind of in the suburbs near a lot of military housing.
My mom didn't understand. So, yeah, she definitely was very angry. But I think it paid off. Every once in a while, she still makes one of those little comments like, "Well, if you had gone to college So, once you started getting a huge response from YouTube, did you tell her about that? Did that help out with making your case? Yeah, I brought her out on tour, actually.
And I would make all my fans scream while she was out there dancing with me. We would dance to Mexican music, and it's definitely been really cool. But, you know, I feel like Latin moms are always kind of hard on their daughters about school and stuff.
I've mostly lived in Hispanic communities, but for a while my mom was able to live in low-income housing that was kind of in the suburbs near a lot of military housing. So that was mostly white and Asian people, but I thought I fit in perfectly. You know, my best friend was Heather, and we played soccer, and we just did normal things.
I've never been like, "I'm a Mexican, I'm not like you. Your last EP [ Halfway There Part 1 ] was pretty diverse. There's radio-friendly rap, reggaeton, a track in Spanish, even some EDM and trap influences. To what degree would you say that's a change for you, and what brought it about? I've always been affected by those kinds of music, and I've always had some Spanish stuff in there, some EDM-ish trap-style party music, from the beginning. And then there are songs like "Drunk Love" that are kind of singy. But I really only dabbled in those things, because I know that most of my fan base really wants to hear me do the real aggressive rap and stuff like that.
I just felt like this time, what if I do more than just dabble? What if I immerse myself in those sounds and those genres, and just see what my fans think?