Blu Samu

With the words »Forgive me / Don’t forgive me at all / I have to let you / Pull the smallest straw,« Blu Samu introduced herself to the world on the single »I Run,« and that about says it all – but we’ve got more to tell you about this Belgian MC of Portuguese descent. In her songs – inspired by funk and soul, 90s R&B and contemporary hip-hop from trap to cloud rap – she dissects a generation’s longing for a better life and everything standing in the way of one. »But the world ain’t safe / If you don’t have money these days,« she continues on »I Run«. Taking inventory with elbow grease. Blu Samu might be the missing link between Lauryn Hill and Princess Nokia, at any rate a promising figure in the current rap landscape.