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To celebrate this year’s 50th anniversary of hip-hop, VICE is spending the coming months looking ahead to the next 50 years—which Harlem-born and raised Antha Pantha is helping to infuse with storytelling, collaboration, DC Comics, and kittens.
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The “B.W.A.” and “Real Bitches” rapper came onto the scene in 2019 with childhood friend A$AP Ferg (their dads are best friends) and his indie underground label Sewer Sounds. Here, she discusses how joy is the best feeling to bring to the studio regardless of a song’s subject matter and how growing up as a movie buff has influenced her music. Antha Pantha might have a Captain America tattoo and a cat named Batman, but she says she’s a Disney girl at heart. And though her music takes on a more adult vibe than any classic kid’s movie, there’s still this commitment to narrative and fun.
For the future of hip-hop, Pantha predicts there will be more of a family-style community, much in the way Sewer Sounds is offering now. “You see more collaborations, you see more artists kicking it on a regular day rather than just being in the studio,” she says. “I feel like the sound is gonna be a little different, but it’s gonna go back to the family sense.”
