Baeb Rxxth

two headed trap-pop monstar with zero chill. knocking stuff out of the proverbial park.Sliding in, making hits, and breaking records are all qualities that ‘baeb rxxth’ aims to have in common with its namesake. Synthy, spunky, trap-pop co-producers Devon Craig Johnson and Nasimiyu Murumba met in 2013 in New York at one of Devon’s long-held Chinatown dance parties, and the two instantly started nerding out about hip hop, songwriting, and production gear.

“I think of us as a production team. We’re side-by-side on drum machines, samplers, and synth bass keyboards, building these big fun, sound houses to shelter what had begun as just my weird little singer/songwriter piano demos,” notes Nasimiyu, whose solo project, Dirt, won acclaim from Vogue, NYLON, Afropunk, SPIN, OkayAfrica, and Interview magazine in 2014.

The “sound house” that they’ve built for their debut OMW EP, due in November, includes the sassy home-run single, “Gutter,” and wields a unique hybrid of Nasimiyu’s organic, vocal-harmony-laden, found-sound-sampling loyalties, mixed with Devon’s aptitude for dancey, audacious, and trap-happy fearlessness.

The band’s vibe draws inspiration from the radical underground subcultures that have fueled NYC, Nola, and Cali’s creative vibrance – vogueing, hip hop, bounce music, synth pop, and the hyphy movement.