Do NOT Call Kari Faux 📱🔨💥 - "Leave Me Alone" [Video]

By Jack Barnes

An influential, genre-bending and multi-faceted artist, Kari Faux is a captivating and refreshingly honest presence on the microphone. Returning to the fold with a deeply personal and affecting new project, Kari Faux prepares for CRY 4 HELP EP, her first new project since 2017. Though the subject matter is heavy, the music is rich and engrossing, as Kari alternates her soft singing voice with plainspoken rhymes, fully inhabiting each instrumental and walking the line between rap and R&B. Whether she’s singing or rapping, Kari probes the depths of her conscious and subconscious with musicality and wit. The project reaches an emotional climax with the closing track “Latch Key,” a devastating account of Kari’s recent and distant history. Featuring an appearance from Curren$y, CRY 4 HELP hits the internet on March 8th. Enjoy this video stream below after the jump and please share this with friends.

To accompany the reveal of the EP’s tracklist and cover art, Kari shares “Leave Me Alone,” her new music video. A slinky piece of futuristic R&B, “Leave Me Alone” finds Kari switching between a deadpan delivery on the verses and an entrancing falsetto on the chorus, dismissing those who only care about her for her fame. An inventive commentary on our constant state of connectivity, Kari Faux unsuccessfully tries to shut herself off from the world in “Leave Me Alone,” holing up in a hotel room to avoid everyone and anyone. When she finally gets sick of the incessant calls, Kari heads to a nearby baseball diamond to smash her phone with a bat. Baltimore art rapper JPEGMAFIA makes a cameo appearance at the end of the video.

CRY 4 HELP EP tracklist:
1. Medicated
2. Leave Me Alone
3. In The Air ft. Curren$y
4. Night Time
5. Latch Key

The Background:

Kari Faux is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles by way of Little Rock, Arkansas. Although her experimentation with a musical career started back in 2012, Faux has undergone a metamorphosis, shaking the scene with her 2014 mixtape Laugh Now, Die Later – a mixtape that would catapult her musical career, catching the attention of Donald Glover who remixed her hit “No Small Talk.” Her unique style of rhyming, unchainable confidence, and dashes of sultry vocal harmonizing make her a force to look out for. Her presence in the music industry marks a resurgence of fearless, outspoken female voices in Hip Hop; an attitude Faux exudes in all mediums of creative work. Her first studio album, Lost En Los Angeles (2016) and her most recent EP Primary (2017) are testaments to her continual evolution as a recording artist and while she explores the limitations of her creative abilities, music is not her only skill set. Over the last few years, Faux has added modeling, DJing, and producing under her creative belt. Kari’s established herself an asset and profitable partner, DJing for numerable companies including Puma, Hennessy For Complexcon and Depop, and producing a track on The Internet’s Hive Mind album. Not only has Kari’s music been featured in all three seasons of HBO’s hit series Insecure, but she also landed a noteworthy gig modeling for Pyer Moss, winner of the 2018 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, in his FW ’18 NYFW Show. With her intentions set of releasing three projects in the coming year, Faux looking to dominate the music festival circuit and recently supported Mick Jenkins on his Pieces of a Man Tour and earlier, toured in support of The Internet’s Syd.