Siya

The exploratory and inventive California-born, Brooklyn-raised rapper upped her profile in 2014 after being featured on the T.I. executive-produced reality TV series Sisterhood of Hip Hop. Born Michele Andrea Sherman in 1987, in Barstow, California, she began rapping as a seven-year-old, inspired by artists such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Jay-Z. Caught between her mother's drug addiction and a father serving life in a Bay Area prison, she went to live with her grandmother in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's Eleanor Roosevelt housing projects, at the age of 11. Only a year late...