Namibian hip hop artist Emvee K is a talented woman with only one Spotify listener a month which is quite a crime considering her music is an upbeat listen with admirable messages about independence, womanhood, and the black experience. She is an independent artist not signed to a label and finds great pride in this independence as in the industry there is a predatory practice of sexual intimidation in exchange for achievement that she expresses she has experienced. Below I have linked an interview with her because I find her incredibly admirable and believe more people should know not only her music but her.

In her latest 2023 song “In Die Kasi” feat. Phat Boy Lutor, she briefly explores the social aspect of economic privilege. She says, ” I’m from the Kasi where the girlies know to hustle. You getting spoon-fed while my uncles looked at houses. Now yes, yes I don’t even need your cosign I’m independent, I own my own life”. It is clear in her music she is touching on the previously mentioned values of being an independent artist in her line about owning her own life and not needing a cosign. Predatory music industry practices are a significant issue that barely any of our favorite American artists have been free from or speak out on. It is refreshing to hear someone stick to their values and be prideful about it regardless of it impacting her monetary gain. She explores the difference in experiences of those with economic privilege and those without in her line about others being spoon-fed. There is a strange ironic dichotomy between celebrating wealth and acknowledging struggle in HipHop music but she chooses to stick only with the ladder in her music and clearly in her overall values. I find, with so many industry plants and Drake-like “Started from the Bottom” fibbers, that her truth is easier to connect with for the average person. Support Black women and please check her out!

Link to her Interview: https://youtu.be/zClnzNr7UMI

Link to her song: https://youtu.be/iuEOjWutz2U