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Lexa Gates Is Ready to Fly After ‘Elite Vessel’ & Has Serious Pop Ambitions: ‘I’m Just Getting Started’
Lexa Gates talks music roots, plans to go pop and where she sees herself in 10 years. Read the interview with our Rookie of the Month for March.
Gates’ dexterity allows her to puncture beats with burly flows as refined as her signature Black winged eyeliner, and squeeze every last drop out of brutally honest takes on romance and failed relationships that leave a hole in listeners’ collective hearts. Down the line, Gates — who was co-signed by SZA last year — wants to form the pop avengers and lock in with the genre’s A-list architects like Sabrina Carpenter’s secret weapon Amy Allen and Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff. I never even knew about all this ranking and status within the artist community until I got signed and spoke to [a media trainer], and she pulled up the Billboard [Hot] 100 and I realized, “This is like a sport.” [It’s a] pro athlete vibe.
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