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Skylar Blatt

About

When a lane doesn’t exist, Skylar Blatt will create one. The Cincinnati-born rapper has always thought beyond the confines of her circumstances and her city. She spits raw truth about the struggle, holding nothing back as she recollects trials, tribulations, and triumphs via her music. Generating millions of streams independently and earning the endorsement of everyone from Lyrical Lemonade to Meek Mill, her hunger has no comparison on a series of releases for Arista and more to come.

“Cincinnati has a pro football team, but it’s not a music city,” she observes. “So, it encouraged me to want more and do better. I came from a really negative environment in one of the worst parts of downtown with a lot of bad things going on. I’m rapping about struggle. I’m rapping for people who are actually putting in hard work. I’m motivated, and I’m trying to inspire. Anybody who’s struggling can identify.”

As the second oldest of six kids raised by a single mother, she and her family endured everything life threw at them. Strife at home would be compounded with the unforgiving nature of a flawed system. “When I was in eighth grade, my mom couldn’t afford the rent one month, so the building office came down and took the door off the house,” she sighs. Eventually, she and her siblings settled in with her grandmother. Regardless of where she went, hip-hop always provided safe harbor as she listened to the likes of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Future, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, 50 Cent, Jadakiss, and Juelz Santana.

Picking up a mic, she uploaded freestyles of her own to Facebook. She slowly but surely built an audience through consistent posts, gaining serious traction with originals “I Can Tell” and “Urgent Care.” Around the same time, Meek Mill cosigned her. Locking down collaborations through social media, she generated north of 738K YouTube views on “Exactly” [feat. Babyface Ray & Midwest Milly] followed by “God Forbid” [feat. Icewear Vezzo] and “Superbowl (BENGALS)” [feat. Doe Boy]. Reflective of Skylar’s
burgeoning buzz throughout 2022, Lyrical Lemonade professed, “Her story is so raw and genuine, that’s it’s hard not to fall in love with her aura,” and Respect My Region pegged her as “Poised to become Cincinnati’s next big female.”

Along the way, she caught the attention of Arista and inked a deal with the label.

“I think about everything I’ve been through, and I put it all on a track,” she says. “I treat music the way I treated surviving all the years.”

Her fire burns through the single “Fame.” Against a backdrop of skittering 808s and anxious cymbals, Skylar’s confident, yet laidback delivery practically overflows with charisma as she boasts, “I’m NBA ballin, I’m needing no mascot, as a matter of fact, take my trash out!” “Fame” properly kicks off the next stage of her career with a bang.

“I was drinking Hennessy with my friends in the studio,” she recalls. “Lyrically, I’m just paying attention to what the industry was bringing at the time. I felt like, ‘Everybody is chasing clout. They’re doing anything for fame’. I decided to make a record about not caring about fame. Y’all are out here selling your souls. It’s not really genuine. I’m not judging nobody, but I’m telling you how I feel and I don’t care about.