Headline : Anycia doesn’t believe in fear

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It’s a Thursday in early April and Anycia is calling me in the middle of getting her nails done. The 26-year-old rapper is supposed to be relaxing: she’s back in her hometown of Atlanta on one of her precious days off. She’d just done a show in New York the previous weekend, with an impending show in Seattle and a press run in LA. Then back to Atlanta, Miami for a few days, then DC, then NYC again. Even a brief staycation can’t interrupt the breakneck pace — that’s why she’s talking to me, after all — and Anycia is more than aware of her rocketing trajectory. “Chile, I’m just gonna be gone,” she laughs.

Such are the spoils of victory for a hot young rapper on the cusp of serious stardom. Less than a year ago, a snippet of “So What” by Anycia and Popstar Benny started to make the rounds on social media. Built around a woozy Ciara sample, the song spotlit Anycia’s velvety lower register and no-nonsense shit-talking, quickly earning nods from Drake and Kevin Durant as well as minor grail status thanks to its unavailability on major streaming services. Subsequent singles and an EP in November 2023 continued to build her hype, but fans won’t let her forget about that first hit. “I could literally drop the best song in the world and it’s gonna be somebody in the comments like, ‘Drop “So What” please,’” Anycia tells me. “I just got tired. Nobody even knows, but we actually are about to drop it very soon.”

Fast forward to now: her insouciant debut album Princess Pop That, out today, features Latto, Luh Tyler, and Cash Cobain among others, hopscotching from brassy anthems (“BACK OUTSIDE”) to airier slow grooves (“ATM”) and g-funk variations (“BAD WEATHER”). Anycia is also in the process of building a formidable collection of collaborations: her standout verse on “New Me” off Flo Milli’s Fine Ho, Stay offered a drawling counterpoint to Flo’s brattier bars, and songs with Chow Lee, Waka Flocka Flame, and BlueBucksClan are all on the way. “I’ve never really picked nobody,” Anycia tells me. “All the artists I’ve worked with, damn near, have reached out to me.”

Anycia is “booked and busy,” she says, to the point that when I naively ask how she decompresses when she’s home in Atlanta, she bluntly replies, “I don’t.” Still, she’s candid and affable during our call, cracking jokes and talking at length about being too old for new music, her favorite gory movies, and how she’s never beating “the BBL allegations.”

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