Rapper Turned Singer Mapei Compares Kendrick Lamar To Billie Holiday

Five years ago, Providence, Rhode Island native Mapei was an underground rapper living in Sweden fully immersed Stockholm's rap scene. She released The Cocoa Butter Diaries EP as a rapper in 2009, but lost the following couple of years to a creative funk that landed her on hiatus, traveling and looking for inspiration...

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