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“Pop is a big genre. Hip-hop is a big genre. But I also want to stay in my lane and get the feeling of where I’m coming from and be able to share that,” she says, finding her own sound hard to classify even for herself. “If I do a hip-hop song, it doesn’t sound like a regular hip-hop track; it sounds fresher. I am doing my own thing.  “When I first started, maybe I was aiming for an album to reach the mainstream,” she admits. “But when I listen to it now—it’s fresh, it doesn’t sound like anybody’s album. It puts you in a dancing spirit.”

In her 19 years, Rye Rye has lived more than most. Pulling herself up and out of the Baltimore projects by her own determination, wiling away hours in the city’s all-ages club scene not to waste her time but to make something of her time. Seminal shows on station 92Q with DJs like late, legendary K-Swift opened up new worlds, dance nights morphing into impromptu competitions, feeding her ambition. All of this sound, vision, bombastic and beautiful boasting have coalesced to inform her singular persona and performance. (Even The New York Times has taken notice, raving of her recent HARD NYC set: “Rye Rye delivered her rat-a-tat rhymes—fast, competitive boasts—over the sparse electronic propulsion of Baltimore club music while she outdanced everyone else on the festival bill.”)