Interview With Empress Kush

Q.) What is your name / stage name?
Empress Kush

Q.) Where are you from?
Southern California

Q.) What do you do?
Singer & Rapper

Q.) How long have you been making music?
My whole life; I wrote my first piano piece at age 4, won 1st place in the school district for a piano composition in junior high, started performing original music around the Los Angeles area after high school, started producing my own music in 2009, and have partnered with Darren Vegas as my producer since our first collaboration in 2018.

Q.) What was your first song/project?
My absolute very first song was a spooky tune I made up for Halloween when I was 4 years old. My first full length album, “Celebrity Crush”, comes out February 27, 2023.

Q.) Who’s your inspiration?
My biggest musical inspirations are probably Eminem and Dr. Dre on the rap side, so it’s a trip and such a blessing to be working with Darren Vegas. On the singing side I tend towards pop and R&B acts like Lady Gaga and my early pop idols Britney Spears & Christina Aguilera.

Q.) What genre of music do you create?
My new album “Celebrity Crush” takes the listener on a journey from classic West Coast hip hop through R&B to feel-good synth pop.

Q.) What are some features you have?
My first two songs with Darren were “Ghetto Boujee” featuring $horty and I was featured on a track by Motor Mouth called “You And I”. Several early collabs with rapper/producer Joe Doe are floating around the underground. A couple of others remain unreleased.

Q.) Who’s one person, dead or alive, that you’d want to work with?
Eminem

Q.) Are you signed to a label?
No

Q.) Do you want a record deal, a distribution deal, or none?
Depends on the terms

Q.) Who are your biggest supporters?
My fans

Q.) Do you write your own material?
Yes; I used to produce my own tracks but now work with Darren Vegas as my producer.

Q.) Do you create your own music video concepts?
Yes

Q.) What’s your favorite music to listen to?
Mine lol… depends on my mood, sometimes dubstep sometimes hip hop occasionally pop

Q.) What are you currently working on?
My album “Celebrity Crush” drops on 2/27/23 and I’m working on my second album “Holograms”.

Q.) What is your latest release?
“Feels Too Good To Stop” is the final single before the album “Celebrity Crush” comes out.

Q.) When is your next release?
The release date for “Holograms” is not yet determined.

Q.) Where is one place you want to travel to perform?
Ibiza

Q.) What’s the biggest crowd that you have performed for?
400

Q.) Who’s someone you can see yourself on tour with?
Eminem, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus

Q.) Who produces your music?
Darren Vegas produced my recent material; early works are self-produced.

Q.) Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Making music to shift the cultural paradigm with a group of similarly focused individuals. Developing a network of solar, hemp, food & natural medicine farms that will produce all basic life necessities and provide them free to all member-employees; the surplus will be sold for profit which will be shared amongst all member-employees. We will also work to end homelessness.