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JT’s ‘City Cinderella’ Story: The Fast-Rising Rap Star Talks Debut Mixtape, Production Prowess & Upcoming Tour
The "Okay" rapper breaks down how Miami and New York shaped her new City Cinderella mixtape. Read the Billboard interview.
Clad in a baby blue gown and a white fur boa with her seemingly endless jet-black inches crowned with a tiara, JT – Miami’s reigning hip-hop princess – celebrated the release of her debut solo mixtape, City Cinderella(July 19 via Quality Control/Motown). Across the tape’s 16 tracks, JT – born Jatavia Johnson — reflects on how her childhood traumas shape her present-day attitude, flexes her millennial status with nifty samples and interpolations that properly situate her in hip-hop history, and displays the evolution of her rap skills. But the next day, my A&R [reminded me to speak up because the sessions were expensive], so I was like, “Can we do a Rick Ross, luxury storytelling song?” They started making the beat right then and there, and I went in and kinda freestyled the hook.
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