Willa Amai just finished school for the day. She leaves one virtual meeting, with the dean of her high school, for the next,this interview. The 16-year-old shows the webcam her neatly organized, pink daily planner — which seems necessary for a student who’s balancing course work and studio sessions with …
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Not long after the London-based singer Nilüfer Yanya signed with an American label in 2017, she ran headlong into a creative wall. “Knowing that whatever I wrote might be on the album, that put a block on my head,” she explains. At first she responded to the pressure with perverse …
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Blueface never stops performing. As soon as the iconoclastic Los Angeles rapper enters Rolling Stone‘s office, phones begin buzzing with notifications asking who he is and why the men’s bathroom smells like freshly rolled blunts. Strolling out of the restroom, he does an elaborate crip walk, even though his only …
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Yola was at home in Bristol in December of 2015 when she realized her kitchen was beginning to fill up with flames. “I was walking around burning like a human torch, and my first instinct was, ‘Ahhh!’” says the British singer-songwriter, who had accidentally set a new kitchen appliance on …
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