4/16/2023 0 Comments Stormi maya![]() ![]() I always felt like kind of a weirdo, an introverted person who no one understood. But what’s funny about metal and alternative music is, like, I was always under the impression that it was for people who never felt like they fit in. They’re afraid of a lot of bimbo hot chicks and young kids taking over. I think that a lot of metal purists are afraid of that same transition happening. The image of it completely changed, from the stripper-ish image of women to gangster young kids running around, doing trap shit. Because if you think about old-school hip hop, and you think about the days of Mobb Deep and Big L and Big Pun, hip hop was at one point very sculpted to the culture, and had messages in it that were for the culture, and it represented something - and then the mainstream turned rap music into pop. They probably have nostalgia for what they grew up with. It’s weird, because there are a lot of gatekeepers or whatever you want to call them, who are just afraid of the future, of what metal might look like. Is it cool watching that genre come back, as it has in recent years? ![]() It was easier to access, and it’s what leaned me into heavier metal as well. When I first got into metal, I gravitated to Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Linkin Park, because it had a lot of elements of of hip hop, and it was a bit more hip and mainstream. As a kid, I heard her play the Cranberries and Linkin Park, but she’d also play Jill Scott and Lauryn Hill. Something that was cool about my mom was that her style of music was also that as well. I was also listening to a lot of older music, like Van Halen and Aerosmith, and I was also into old Motown – in general, I had a different palette of music. Everyone else I was going to school with was listening to Lil Wayne and Nikki Minaj, stuff like that, which is cool. I grew up in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, and it really wasn’t something that was popular in my community. I was a My Chemical Romance/Paramore kid. I basically got into all realms of alternative music when I was in middle school. What was your musical upbringing like? What artists got you into metal and hard rock? I think whats cool about nu-metal is that the style is very hip-hop-ish…But then I also get metalheads being like, Ew, you came here and chose NU-METAL? What the fuck! Why don’t you do some Arch Enemy shit? I’m like, I dunno, man! I do what I do!” “They have these images of what metal and rock music is, and it’s all these scary images of upside-down crosses. “I have a lot of listeners and fans who’re people of color, and when they hear I make metal and rock music, they’re taken aback,” she says. ![]() That said, putting herself out there with the project has earned her nonstop bullshit - from all sides of the culture war. For Maya, Cinnamon Babe is the stepping stone she wished she had as a kid, allowing casual fans an entrance point through which to get into metal. The band’s music is pure nu-metal, a tribute to the agro bands she grew up enjoying. For Stormi, Cinnamon Babe is a labor of love, an expression of anguish and strength born out of a difficult upbringing and a devotion to alternative music. ![]()
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