St. Louis native Sexxy Red does it with her foot on the gas. The 25-year-old rapper’s music is unabashed fun.
does it with her foot on the gas. The 25-year-old rapper’s music is unabashed fun. She’s a classic Southern rapper with a sticky and viscous flow and an anachronistic approach to music. She abstains from traditional lyricism or liquid singing for one-sentence phrases or personal and sexual anecdotes that are meant for fans to call back to her onstage. Her hooks are her greatest talent, allowing the listener to sing along with her.
As we enter a nail salon in Manhattan for a pedicure — Red’s treat — I start to play “SkeeYee” off ofRed smiled and laughed bashfully — her face acknowledging how fun this was and how extra I was being by playing her song loudly on my phone. That’s the appeal of Red’s rise: It’s been just as fun for the listener, and it is clearly for her. We’ve needed more interesting dirty talk in a genre that has started to grow stale with its songs about romantic decay.
Sexyy Red, born Janae Wherry , hails from the north side of St. Louis. “Growing up there was fun. When I got older is when things started getting real,” she tells me. “St. Louis is the Wild West.” While being driven to school by her mom, Andrea, who also joined us for the afternoon, Red listened to a steady diet of Lil Wayne, Juicy J, Gucci Mane, and others. “We just listened to all the hood stuff,” says Red. Growing up, Red says, she was a likable person and popular.
When the father of Red’s son, whose name is Chuckie, cheated on Red, Red made a diss song to her then-boyfriend and started rapping. To everyone’s surprise, the rap was strong and it got everyone imagining Red as the next hot rapper from St. Louis. “There wasn’t any girls rapping like that,” Red claims. “So everyone was like, ‘You should just rap.’ Once they heard I could freestyle, everyone told me I should make a real song.” At first, Red didn’t even know what studio to go to.
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