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Get to know Southwest Mook.
Get to know Southwest Mook.
Born Devia Harris, but known on the mic as Southwest Mook, the Detroit rapper is the kind of artist that is hard to ignore and even harder to pigeonhole. She is a pure product of the streets. Her truth is jarring, one of the most dramatic tales in recent hip-hop memory depicting a landscape of drugs, violence, incarceration and poverty from a female perspective. She has the kind of credentials gangster rap lyrics are made of. By marrying sound and substance along with journalistic songwriting, Southwest Mook acts as a translator between the common individual and the hood.
Flawed yet transparent, with an unexpected story that lends to her ability to both shock and inspire, Southwest Mook is the voice that will revolutionize an entire generation of the culture.
Raised primarily by her parents until her father died when she was 4, she was just 11 when her mom became addicted to drugs and went to prison. At 12, the pre-teen became a drug dealer herself with the unlikely help of her grandmother who was a known bank robber. By 16, Southwest Mook was financially supporting her family, a high school dropout and foster care runaway with a police record. Being that hip-hop is fundamentally rooted in authenticity, the emerging femcee is as real and raw as they come - a rapper with a proven rap sheet.
The wordsmith, who copped her name in homage to her neighborhood, began rhyming in middle school. While basketball was also a passion, she used music as a personal escape expressing her thoughts through writing consistently. The young boss, wanting to invest some of the money from her street activity into her career, used her earnings to pay for studio time. Influenced by her dad, an aspiring rapper prior to his death, as well as Jeezy and Aaliyah, Southwest Mook paired hardcore trap with R&B beats to craft her own genre. Each track easily conjures the image and tone of struggle, pain, criminality and savageness, which is concurrent through her music. Despite the law breaking narrative found in her verbal poetry, the bass-driven melodies she chooses are built on a steady rhythm that is captivating and her rap-singing style lends a global energy to her style that creates an organic connection to listeners. This distinct and whimsical finesse is what makes her a star standout.
In 2014, Southwest Mook survived a life-threatening gunshot wound to the chest. At the time she was a fugitive and spent part of her recovery time handcuffed to a hospital bed before being transferred to the slammer. When she bonded out of jail, she continued to record new material and released a mixtape entitled Free Gas under her label 4242, the home address where she once hustled. She also opened up for YFN Lucci and Yo Gotti, which helped to raise her profile. But it wasn’t until she dropped a pair of freestyles, “Quiet Storm” and “Must I Remind You,” along with visuals that caused her talent to go viral. She instantly garnered the attention of artists, producers, DJs, entertainers and label execs like Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd, Mike Will Made It, DJ Kay Slay, Mike Epps and P of Quality Control, respectively. Eventually being granted permission to travel out of state, Southwest Mook flew to LA at Slim Jxmmi’s request due to his curiosity to meet the woman behind the venomous verses.
Southwest Mook is to carrying out a stint behind bars as of the spring of 2018 for her past mistakes, while still serving the streets with new music. By mixing genres and blending all the experience she’s accrued to date, her twisted life story has also become her superpower.
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