Through Grief and Growing Pains, Kemba Creates 'Gilda'
New York rapper Kemba speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about the themes of his debut album, Gilda, and the emotional labor that went into making it.
by Audie Cornish
Sep 20, 2019
1 minute
Grief can feel like a new world emerging, swallowing up the reality you once knew and expanding into something entirely all-consuming. New York rapper used that monolithic feeling to create his major label debut album, , a record that pays tribute to his mother who passed away two years ago.
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