Kelly Glow has Hip Hop in her very being, and along with her new single and music video for ‘Black Lady Magic (DJ Nervex Remix)’, she’s exhibiting simply how a lot she’s devoted to residing, respiratory, and preserving Hip Hop in each music and past.
Rising up on the border of Compton, in southern Los Angeles County, Kelly Glow says “Hip-Hop was all the time in my bones”. She lived via the consequences of medication, violence, and poverty on her group, however, with a robust upbringing, rising up in a “home of service”, Kelly was given the foundations to have the ability to pursue greater schooling and have monetary stability. “However via all of it”, she says, “Hip Hop remained my heartbeat”.
Kelly Glow wrote her first rap on the age of 12, and began avenue dancing with a crew throughout her youth, Hip Hop all the time remaining a driving drive in her life. She relocated to Atlanta, the place she discovered her personal means within the Gospel Music group, however even then she was sharing her love of Hip Hop – alongside her Lutheran religion – on levels throughout the nation, profitable a Gospel Alternative Award in 2015, for Finest Hip Hop Album. Nonetheless, that emphasis on the significance of schooling, which had been instilled in her from the earliest days, by no means wavered, main her to a Doctorate in Training, with an emphasis on Hip-Hop Research, and turning into an educator.
Now nevertheless, Kelly Glow is pivoting in her profession on the age of 49, and, passionate and motivated, she’s main the motion to dispel any destructive perceptions there could be concerning the place of girls and older artists in music. Kelly Glow is right here to show that there’s no age restrict to spreading mild and love.
DJ Nervex’s remix of Kelly’s music, ‘Black Lady Magic’ sees these two creatives come collectively as an ideal match. DJ Nervex wrote the instrumentation a number of years beforehand, however when Kelly’s verses had been laid over it, it was as if items of a puzzle had been ready to be assembled. Within the remix Kelly Glow is allowed to soar with energy and power along with her impeccable movement. She instructions an authority that by no means lets go, and she or he’s leaving no one in any doubt as that she’s right here to be taken significantly.
It’s a nostalgic monitor with a 90s vibe, and when Glow will get to the second verse she’s praising the ladies, these Black visionaries who stood for making a change – very like Kelly herself. She is nevertheless additionally laying the trail clear for these younger ladies “who know they’ve it”, and calling on them to embrace that which makes them distinctive, and settle for their price.
The music video for ‘Black Lady Magic (DJ Nervex Remix)’ was directed by Kelly Glow’s shut pal, and famend director, Will Thomas. Thomas manages to channel the bounce of the 90s, with its “West Coast Growth Bap”, and offers it an environment that’s pure LA. Kelly Glow all the time makes certain she’s carefully concerned along with her movies, and even when she was recording the monitor within the studio she had a imaginative and prescient for what the clip would entail. She wished to point out the LA she grew up in, with its traditional convertibles, neon lights, and, naturally, numerous dancing. A lifelong dancer herself, she is aware of its significance, and, relatively than relegating them to the background, she elevated the dancers to sharing the highlight, moreover highlighting the numerous numerous kinds of avenue dance throughout Hip Hop’s many subcultures. The clip serves as half love letter to Hip Hop and half a nostalgic journey, however there’s one factor for sure – Kelly Glow’s on her solution to one thing particular – and we’re proper right here at first of all of it.
Try the music video for ‘Black Lady Magic (DJ Nervex Remix)’ beneath, and discover out extra about Kelly Glow and her music on-line on her official web site, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
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