Kari Faux released her Lost En Los Angeles album yesterday (April 8).
The Little Rock, Arkansas artist has 11 tracks on the project, which is the follow-up to her Laugh Now, Die Later mixtape.
Faux spoke with HipHopDX about her journey to the big city and how that inspired Lost En Los Angeles.
“It was a super culture shock,” she said of moving to the City of Angels. “I was definitely kind of sad. I really felt like I didn’t fit in with anybody outside of the people I worked with or already knew. I don’t have family out here and I’m a big family person. I spend a lot of time with my family so it was kind of hard. It was crazy because I never had aspirations to live in L.A. and actually had a dream where I was living here.”
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Childish Gambino put her “No Small Talk” single on his STN MTN / Kauaimixtape, which helped her garner some mainstream recognition. She detailed how meeting the rapper-actor was a natural process, not something that made her star-struck.
“Most people would have been like, ‘I’m on a song with Childish Gambino, I’m about to take off,'” she says. “I was more like is this right for me in this time as an artist. I believe in myself enough to ask those questions about my brand. When he came out and hung out with us, chill and smoke with us, it was tight. I was like, ‘Ah, he’s a real person.’ He’s not some fuckin’ person that doesn’t exists in the real world.”
Read the full interview here.
Kari Faux’s Lost En Los Angeles album cover art, tracklist and stream are below:
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- Lost (Intro)
- Lost En Los Angeles
- Nada
- Law of Attraction
- Supplier
- Don’t
- Lie 2 My Face
- Fantasy
- Nothing 2 Lose
- This Right Here
- Eden
