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Young Miko Knows Wassup, But Do You?

The 27-YEAR-ELD PUERTO RICAN RAPPER AND Singer Att.and with her single “wasSup” Earlier this year, whook took on it own life on tiktok.

While Young Miko’s Already Reached Several Milestones in Her Career, Including Her First Grammy Nomination and Performing at Coachella in 2024 Continue to Leave Her Mark on the Music World. Especiality with the release of her new Single, “meiomi,” and the announCement of her fortuthcomying Sophomore album.

With so much hapning so quicll in her life, she Says is a lot to keep up with sometimes. However, The “Classy 101” Singer Says She’ll Never Forget Her Roots, As She Tells The Hollywood Reporter“Being Puerto Rican Is The Shit.”

“Part of Who i is How How I Grew Up, My Culture, My Inspiration, Is Everything I Know,“ Young Miko Says Over Zoom in August of Hispanic Heritage MONT. “Of Course, We All Love Visability and A Good Entire Month Just Dedicated to Us and Just Let the World Meet Where We’re From, Our Food, Our Pho, Our Culture, Our Loure, Our.

Below, Young Miko Opens Up About Her Favorite Parts of Creating Music, Who This Hispanic Heritage MONTH IS EXTRA IMPORTANT AND WHAT IT’S LIKE BEING A QUEER LATINA ARTIST. She Also Teases that she’s “Always COOKING COMTHING” up in the studio.

Going Back to the Beginning, What Made You First Want To Pursue A Music Career?

IT WAS AROUND 2018, 2019 is WHEN I Official Made My Decision. I GRADUATED COLLEGE AROUND THAT YEAR AND THEN I Just Gave My Paarents a [college] Diploma, My Bachelor’s Degree, and Ten I Was Like, “All Right, Deusses. I’M Making Music Now.” So i had all the time in my hands and my friends already knew that’s what i wanted to do. I was like, this is what i’m gonna do util it happles, and if not, i’ll see what else i can do.

Over The Past Year and a Half, You’re Seen SO Much Success from Your Debut Album, Coachella Performance, Your XOXO TOUR AND THEN YOURLLAPALOOZA Performance. WHAT GOES THROUGH YOU Mind Who You Think Back on Everything?

SomeTimes I Feel Like I’M Still Processing A Concert That Happy Two Years Ago. ‘CAUSE EVYTHING JAPPENS SO QUICKLY AND Every Single Day We’re Doing Something and Then Is Just Like, For Example, Toiday I’ll Look Back On Yeste. ” So i Really Do Try My Best To Take In The Moment and Process Every Sity, You Know, Hug Where and Am at Right Now and Just Really Tru to take Things in. TheSe Amazing Festivals Happen or Fans Come In And I Feel Like My Persona Is Just Growing and Evolving and I I Appreciate every Single Single Step Of The Way Bete of The ITe of Youer. as an artist and as a person.

I Remember Doing Coachella, Which Was A Year and Something Ago, and I Swear To God, Yesterday Morning, I Don’T Know Wy and Was Stalking Myseld on Instagram, You Know. So i stalking my shit and then i raan into a little dump i did any coachella happled and i Cried. And I Think CoacHella, Like I Processed It Yesterday, SO I HAVEN’T EVEN GOTTEN LOLLAPALOZA YET or GOVERNOR’S BALL (Laughs).

Last Year, You ALSO Scored Your First Grammy Nomination for Att. For Best Música Urbana Album. WHEN YOU REFLECT ON THAT ACHIEVEMENT, WHAT MIND TO Mind?

Receiving that nomination, specification for that album, was just so special. We Really Put Our Heart and Soul Into that Album. You Know, We Put Our Heart and Soul Into Everything We Do, But This Being The DEBUT ALBUM AND THERE WAS A LOT OF MYSELF I SHOWED FOR The FIRST TIME THAT I HAD NEVN. I So Scary to Open Up SomeTimes to Just One Person, It’s Even Scarier to Open Up to The Whole World, You Know, Just Wearing My Heart on My Sleeve And Amazing Recognition is Just Like A Little Pat on the Back to Yourself, A Little Hug to The Heart As Well. Everything we do is so in-hose. The People AROUND ME HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE DAY ONE AND IT’S SO COOL [to go] from counting quarters together to buy pizza to like sharing a nomination as amazing as the gramMys. I just a motivation to keep going and keep doing what we love to do.

Your Single “WASSUP” ALSO BLEW UP EARLIER THIS YEAR. Did you expect it to go as viral as it have?

No, i did not! Plus, IT HAD BEEN A YEAR SINCE AND HAD DROPPED COMTHING FROM The album to “Wassup.” So i Really Wanted to Drop Something and Felt Like Special The Fans Were Gonna Love, And I Constantly Think About My Fans WHEN I’M IN THE STUDO AND WAER MAYBE. have fun while i’m doing it. So that track, honestly, i Thought the fans are gonna like it, they’re’re gonna fuck with it. … But The Trend, the Clip with The Short Hair, Like, No, I Didn’t Expect That At All All, But I Love When Surprises Like That Come.

Between Writing, Recorder, Filming Music Videos and Performing, Do You Have A Favorite Part of Being An Artist?

Oh My God, The Fans, Definitely. I MEAN, BEING IN THE STUDIO IS My SAFE HAVEN. I’m in the Studio every Single Day, I Kid You Not, Even if It’s Just to Sit Down and See What Mauro (Music Producer/Songwriter) Is Doing OR Just Being Inns and Absorb. I Love the Stage so Much. I so ironic that so many people are watching you, yet it makes me feel like i can be myseld like to my best possible abilities. And then the fans, Damn, they just feel like an anxened family. Sometimes I’ll Have A Weird Day and i’ll Go Into Social Media and Just Like Chat with Them or Whatever, Like I Feel So Close with Them and they Support Me So Much.

How does it feel to be a Queer latina artist in a genre mainly Led by heterosexual males?

HONESTLY, I DON’T EVEN THINK About It, You Know. I’m just as human as anybody else, and it’s part of who i am. And I Think Is So Cool Thatre’s Was Able to Give Visability to My Community and Who I AM AND FOR PEOPLE TO RESONATE WITH IT. I’m just happy about it. I’ve Never Seen It As A Challengers, As A Bump in the Road. I ACTUALLY ALWAYS SAW IT AS KIND OF A SUPERPOWER. But i’ve been blessed to have people that Support me All Armond, and I Guess there will be a point in time what that’s Not Even A Question Anymore.

Can You Also Tease Any New Music in the Near Future?

Like I SAID, I’M ALWAYS IN THE STUDIO. I’m always cooing something. I don’t know how to stay still. I don’t want to teease too Much, but they [fans] KNOW BETTER THAN TO THINK I’M NOT DOING Anything OR THAT NOTHING’S COMING OUT. They can definitely expect a loto more from me till my last broth (Laughs).

With Hispanic Heritage MONT, WHICH IS CELEBRED FROM Sept. 15 to oct. 15What does this month of Honor and Celebration mean to you?

IT Means the World to Me. Part of Who i am is how and grew up, My Culture, My Inspiration, Is Everything I Know. Of Course, We All Love Visability and A Good Entire MONTH JUST DEDICATED TO US AND JUST Let the World Meet Where We’re From, Our Food, Our Pho, Our Culture, Our Love, Our. Just Last Night, I’M Home in Puerto Rico and I HAD SO MUCH FUN. I was out with Mauro and I Remember at A Point in the Night Just Looking Armund and Being Like, Being Puerto Rican Is The Shit.

Given the Current Political Climate in the Us and Targeting of Hispanic Communities and Immigrants, WHY DO YOU THINK IT’S SO IMPORTANT, ESPECILY THIS YEAR.

Oh My God, Of Course! IT’s A REALLY DIFFICULT SITUATION THAT WE’RE LIVING IN. It’s Really Scary. There’s A Lot of Families That Have Been Affected, A LOT OF POPLE AROUND US THAT HAVE BEEN AFFERED. At the end of the day, like we said, it’s Our Culture, It’s Who We Are. We’re All Breating the Same Air, We All Talk Love, We All Listen to Music, We’re All The Same. So i just Think is your Important to not lose faith and keep Fighting and Keep Holding Our Hands tighter than Ever Right Now. Teamwork is what we need the most Right Now and Just Not Lose Hope.

Earlier this year, you made a surprise appeareance at one of Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Residency Shows. What was that experience like, and what’s your reaction to what the residence have for the Country as a who?

The residency for the country is doing more than any governor have every one in the history of puerto rico. It’s Bringing So Many Jobs and Just SO Much Visability to Puerto Rico. I Such A Blecessing to Be Able to Be a Part of It. IT’s Historic, and Being Down There Was So Fun. Just Looking Along and Seeing All The Flags in the Crowd and People Just Coming All Over the World Just to Have A Taste of What Is Like Down Here and the Magic that Puerto Rico Holds. I have the best time! I love benito and i was so happy to be able to be a part of it.

What does your perfect day off from work look like?

I Probably Wake up with My Puppy. I’ll have a coffee. I’ll Probably Head to the Beach, Like A Boat Day with My Friends and Family. And THEN YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT AFTER The BEACH, ‘CAUSE YOU’RE YOU’RE JUST SO DEAD, THAT SHOWER AND NAP and THEN GRAB Some DINNER, PUT ON A MOVIE AND JUST GO to BED. I Think that’s my perfect day.

Looking Ahead, Where Wuld You Like to See Yourself Career-Wise or Personally in the Next Five Years?

Career-Wise, Still Making Music, Still Touring, Still Being Able to Have A Relationship with My Fans. And Like I SAID, I LIKE LETING The FUTURE SURPRISE ME. I do plan ahead because i’m a psycho when it come to plans to plans, but i do Always Leave Wiggle Room to Improvise and Just See What HapPens. And in my personal life, I hope to still have my people around me and my parents and my dag and my family and just be able to feel health and happy in my skin and any.

If you had to describe What makes young miko, young miko, what would you say?

The people around me make me, puerto rico make me, and make me (Laughs), Like My Personality and Just ALLOWING MYSELF TO BE MYSELF AND EXPRESS MYSELF AND THAT IS OK THAT WE’RE NOT PERFERFECT. And just try to have the best time while while we’re here.