“I really appreciate the way that Hip-Hop has evolved. Being from Australia, my exposure to American music was Rap music. When I was 16, I discovered Kendrick Lamar and I listened to Kanye West properly. And Nicki Minaj was coming out as well as Drake and Lil Wayne. I was a MySpace kid and all of their quotes were everywhere. You know when someone’s finally able to speak the way you think and put words that you never really thought of into sentences and you’re just like, ‘Damn, yeah, I do have haters.’ I really appreciated that. I also love the way that it’s evolved with so many sub-genres. It makes it feel like we are all part of something; like we belong somewhere. I hope it continues to be that way.”

Artist Tkay Maidza has been having a well-deserved break from releasing fully-formed projects. But with a new era setting on her horizon, she is gearing up to deliver her latest album, Sweet Justice, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop’s inception by making her own mark on the coveted genre—recruiting the likes of Kaytranada, Flume and Duckwrth in the process. Covering our Autumn/Fall 23 issue, Maidza sits down with album collaborator and fellow songstress, Amber Mark, to detail the process behind the new cut, and how infiltrating the L.A. music scene led her to a “holy grail” list of collaborators on the new project.

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Tkay Maidza wears Kenzo