Kari Faux

From Little Rock to LA, from slinging junk food to spitting hot rhymes, Kari Faux (née Johnson) brought the organic circulation of old-school ’90s rap and updated it with poignant, oftentimes hilarious lyrics online age. Raised inside a Southern gospel and traditional custom by her parents (a manufacturing plant employee and minister), she began rapping for fun as an in-joke with her close friends. Multiple mixtapes afterwards, she had created a hypnotic stream, a knack for smart wordplay, and a witty deadpan that befit her self-proclaimed nickname “Rap Video game Daria” (following the well-known past due-’90s, early-aughts MTV toon). Jokes apart, her aggressive features and hard position conveyed an unflappable self-confidence befitting a far more veteran emcee, no L.A. transplant in her early twenties. Her initial tune, 2011’s “Fauxty Mls EACH HOUR” was accompanied by some dropped mixtapes in 2012. It wasn’t until 2014, nevertheless, that she elevated her publicity and group of fans with the Have a good laugh Now, Cry Afterwards EP, which highlighted “No Small Chat” as well as the troll-baiting “On the web” (which ironically helped her via the automobile she prodded in the monitor). She captured the interest of Childish Gambino (he previously a cameo in her “Gahdamn” video) and finally became component of her administration group. In 2015, she performed in Mexico and Hong Kong to market her debut full-length. That record — Shed en LA — was preceded by one “Nada” (made by longtime friend Malik “Dark Party” Flint) and released in past due 2015.