Of all songs composed, only about 2.8% are produced by those who identify as female. Adding to this number is Ray$av, who single-handedly produced 6 out of the 12 tracks on her mixtape. As a producer, she uses traditional New Orleans sounds in recognition to femme artists who have come before her. However, on Ray$av’s debut mixtape “Short For $avage,” she explores several different genres, including traditional 90’s hip-hop with scratches, neo-soul R&B, Bounce music from her hometown, and New York drill. As Ray$av would say, “On any instrumental, I eat.” As a producer, her goal is to show that she can create any beat in the hip-hop world, and as a rapper she can apply her original sound and flow to any instrumental thrown her way.

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