Coi Leray – ‘Players’ (DJ Smallz 732 – Jersey Club Remix)
An well produced and glamorously presented track, Coi Leray sets barriers high with this enthusiastic rap anthem.
With raw rhymes, traffic-stopping vocals, and inimitable energy, Coi Leray carves out a lane of her own as a dynamic, dangerous, and different kind of pop star. The New Jersey-born and Los Angeles-based rapper, singer, and all-around firebrand first sunk her claws into the culture with the 2018 independent breakout mixtape, Everythingcoz. In its wake, she unleashed the acclaimed sequel EC2 [2019] and Now Or Never EP [2020] and racked up a total of 124 million cumulative streams and counting. Beyond collaborating with everyone from Gunna and Fetty Wap to Kiana Lede, she appeared on the blockbuster Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Soundtrack. Along the way, she also graced the cover of KAZI and garnered plugs and praise from HYPEBAE, Essence, BET, Pitchfork, REVOLT, Def Pen, PAPER, and Cosmopolitan who put it best, “The girl has got pipes y’all!” She ignited 2021 with her biggest and boldest banger to date the chantable “No More Parties.” Only a clip shook Tik Tok with over 1 billion views and over 1 million video creates, setting the stage for the song to take off. Most importantly, it bulldozed the path for her next full-length project in 2021. Coi’s traveling her own lane at high speed and simply leaving the competition in the dust.
Nadia Vaeh – ‘Promise Not to Kill You’
A pop sound that is supported by strong lyricism, this track exemplifies the talent of creative Nadia Vaeh, and pins the emerging artist as one to watch for 2023.
Atlanta native and IMA “Vox Pop” winner Nadia Vaeh found her way into artistry through modeling and joining a local Atlanta circus. She started singing in circus productions, but this was not the beginning of her artistic roots. Nadia’s love of music and singing began at the age of two and was later nurtured by her parents by placing her into a traveling youth choir. Her mother was a poet who passed on her love of words, which later fueled Nadia’s talent as a lyricist. Nadia’s life took an unexpected turn at the age of 17 when she lost her mother to suicide. She dismantled her high-school band and strayed from songwriting and singing for years, other than the occasional karaoke. After this tragic loss, she states that she went down a path of self-sabotage and destruction and used relationships and partying to ignore her pain. When she finally decided to begin again with artistry, which would ultimately save her life, she was a shell of a person, looking to anyone and anything for answers to deal with her heartbreak. “I made a lot of missteps at the beginning of my career and had to learn many things the hard way.” Vaeh loves to pull inspiration for her music through many genres and sounds from all over the world, with much of her musicality rooted in her family’s time in Curaçao and her father’s homeland of Lebanon. For Vaeh, songwriting is personally healing and a platform to help others heal and make waves with social matters.
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