Assertive rapper, singer, and songwriter Melii made significant commercial headway with a bilingual remake of Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" (2017), but she promptly made it known that she had more to offer than creative twists on the work of other artists. Following the album PhAses (2019) and numerous singles, she briefly left the music industry, but returned in 2022 with the Medusa EP.
Raised on an assortment of Dominican and Latin fusion sounds in her Harlem household, Melii had her head turned in another direction when a cousin played her J. Cole's "College Boy." At the time, ...