Lil Berete

The prolific, Toronto-born artist Yaya Berete delivers a heavily Auto-Tuned brand of contemporary rap which faintly incorporates African and Caribbean rhythms. In his first four years of recording, he managed to rack up over 70 million worldwide online streams. Berete was raised with his two sisters on the southside of Regent Park, the largest housing project in Canada and the backdrop for many of his lyrical ruminations. His father died in a car accident when he was very young, while his mother, Cheka Katenen Dioubate, is a recognized Guinean musician, continuing in the fam...