3/28/2023 0 Comments Tee tee growing up hip hop![]() Songs like ‘Morgan’ and ‘13 going on 30’ feel cathartic, like rainy night- bus confessionals. Citing Drake and Lauryn Hill as key influences, the project showcases her songwriting ability and a willingness to be vulnerable. Over long-time collaborator ZEL’s drill productions, Cristale spins introspective coming-of-age tales. In contrast to the bashy, bubbling vibes of ‘Bong, Bing’ and ‘No Time’, Cristale’s debut EP ‘What It’s Like To Be Young’ - which landed in June last year - is painted in colder, darker tones. The response to the track made me feel closer to my roots.”Ĭristale went on to work with dancehall king Beenie Man, Nia Archives and ShaSimone, shelling her verse on CLIPZ’s junglist anthem ‘No Time’. So I felt a bit detached from the Guyanese side of me. “My Jamaican side is more prominent in me because I’m around my Jamaican family members. I want to go there and be around my family. I’m not really in touch with my Guyanese roots like that. “Even my childhood hero Raven-Symoné was doing the dance,” she remembers.Īrguably more important than the snap viral success of ‘Bong, Bing’ was the way the track reinforced Cristale’s own pride in her heritage. Within a couple of weeks, videos of people dancing to the track on top of the pyramids in Egypt were posted. My nan said, ‘You watch, this is gonna be big!’ But I like to remain humble because everything is a gift from God.” Cristale’s nan was right, though. We hadn’t spent time together one-on-one for years,” she tells DJ Mag. “I had to go to my nan’s to braid her hair. ![]() Cristale was enjoying a rare moment of alone time with her grandmother on the day a TikTok post of her dancing in the gym to the track popped. In spring of 2022, she experienced her breakout moment, but it wasn’t via the searing drill and rap cuts that were becoming her trademark it was the infectious dancehall riddims of ‘Bong, Bing’ - a collaboration with Laa Lee - that blasted her career upwards after it went viral on TikTok, revealing another layer to her artistry in the process. ![]() “Sorry rude boy, mi neva mean that / But you got popped like a big eediat,” she menaces over blaring synths on the latter, lacing her commanding flow with Jamaican patois. She first made waves as a rapper with a series of freestyles in 2020, conquering instrumentals like Poundz’s ‘Opp Thot’ and Pa Salieu’s ‘Frontline’ and making them her own. To describe Brixton native Cristale as multi-talented is an understatement the young artist was winning poetry slams in secondary school, used to play football for Crystal Palace, and has completed a degree in Fine Art at the University of the Arts, London. ![]() One of the UK’s most promising and versatile MCs, Cristale has proven herself across dancehall, drill and jungle, spitting fire one minute before going deep and introspective the next ![]()
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