Samara Cyn is a 26 yr outdated rapper & singer from Murfreesboro, Tennessee starting her profession in 2019 after writing her first tune. Nevertheless, it wasn’t till final fall the place her debut EP The Drive Residence started to show heads and catch individuals’s consideration due to the best way she fused various hip hop with neo-soul. She’s been touchdown options on Ray Vaughn’s most up-to-date mixtape The Good, The Dangerous, The Greenback Menu previous his beef with Joey Bada$$ the next month in addition to the brand new ovrkast. album Whereas the Iron’s Sizzling just a few weeks in the past, coming off the latter together with her 2nd EP.
“Summer season’s Turning” was a woozy intro discovering herself sweating actually because she feels just like the jig is up whereas “Pop n Olive” that includes Sherwyn takes a cloudy increase bap method instrumentally buying and selling verses back-&-forth about killing individuals. “hardheaded” provides a funkier vibe to the beat confronting society in 2025 & after the cloudy but relatable “Dangerous Mind” talks about going through the anxieties & distractions of life, “Model New Enamel” that includes Smino wraps up the EP with each of them speaking about delusional stress.
Receiving co-signs from Doechii & even Lauryn Hill bringing her out on stage after she began her set late like all the time, Samara faces the components of herself she’s been denying & confronting them properly sufficient to make a Drive Residence follow-up that makes her understand her potential much more than she did 8 months in the past taking a route to success that’s been not often traveled. She’s hungrier than she was again in October & if she retains purifying the model that made her in style to start with, her full-length studio debut will solely depart a mark on the business larger than this second.
Rating: 8/10