Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

Only the best things get better with age—wine, whisky, cheddar, beef, 401ks, and the list goes on.Yung Gravy gets better with age too. For all of the swagger and style he exhibited upon his arrival, he somehow got even smoother since introducing himself back in 2016. The jewelry is more expensive, the outfits are more ostentatious, the hair is longer, and the flows are harder. Of course, the multiplatinum Minnesota-born MC is still the kind of guy you keep away from your mom(if you don’t want a new stepdad). 2018’s Snow Cougar EP blessed the world with the RIAA certified platinum singles“Mr. Clean”and“1 Thot 2 Thot Red Thot Blue Thot.”His 2019 full-length debut,Sensational, yielded the gold-certified “Magic” and gold-certified “Whip A Tesla” with best friend and longtime cohort bbno$(pronounced “baby no money”). Alongside bbno$, he dropped the Baby Gravy EP and its follow-up Baby Gravy 2 EP. Meanwhile, Gasanova put the pedal to the metal with gold-certified “oops!!!.”He joined forces with Dillon Francis for the Cake & Cognac EP and a blockbuster co-headline tour. He’s the rare force of nature who can shut down arenas with Limp Bizkit or co-star in a music video with a cast member from Vanderpump Rules. Manifesting his dream collaboration, he wound up sharing the screen with Martha Stewart in a commercial for her frozen food line shown in theaters nationwide. After streams in the billions, packed venues, and "side missions” with Martha Stewart plus dropping his brand new single “Betty” which reimagines Rick Astley’s classic “Never Gonna Give You Up”, he stirs up his tastiest sauce yet with more music to come in 2022.

BORN ROBERT LEE PERRY JR. ALSO KNOWN, AS "LPB POODY IS A SELF-PROCLAIMED WEST ORLANDO PRODIGY. LPB STNDS FOR “LIGHT POLE BABY” IT’S A REPRESENTATION OF KIDS THAT WERE FORCED TO JUMP OFF THE PORCH AT AN EARLY AGE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILY. AT AN EARLY AGE POODY'S INTEREST IN MUSIC BEGAN WHEN HE STARTED TO LEARN HOW TO DJ. HE WOULD MIMIC ALL THE RAPPER'S LYRICS AND RAP HIS OWN PERSONAL LINES IN BETWEEN. THEN AT THE AGE OF 12 HAD HIS FIRST RAP EXPERIENCE BY RECORDING ON A SMART PHONE WITH SOME FRIENDS. HIS FIRST TIME EVER PERFORMING WAS AT AN ELEMENTARY TALENT SHOW. LPB POODY'S MAJOR GOAL IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IS TO NOT ONLY MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF, BUT TO ALSO BECOME THE GREATEST ARTIST IN THE RAP GAME PERIOD.

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