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Back & Betta: City Girls Speak On ‘Elevated’ Artistry That Next Album Will Feature

<p>With the three-year anniversary of the last <strong>City Girls<&sol;strong> album — <em>City on Lock <&sol;em>— coming up&comma; the rap duo is speaking on what the future holds for their artistry&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Duo Is Taking A New Approach&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s Elevated P&ast;&ast;&ast;y Rap&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>During a recent sit-down with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;complex&period;com&sol;music&sol;a&sol;markelibert&sol;city-girls-new-album-elevated-pussy-rap-legends" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em>Complex<&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;jt-blasts-people-critiquing-lil-uzi-verts-leslie-chow&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;1yctamm&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTAyNDczNzIxNS4xNjg2MjM2MDE4&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4NjIzNjAxNy4xLjEuMTY4NjIzNjA1NC4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">JT<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>spoke on how the group has &&num;8220&semi;been working on new music&&num;8221&semi; and has &&num;8220&semi;a lot coming&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve been working on new music&comma; and I feel the problem was we were trying to put out the perfect song&comma; but that turned into a project&period; We got a lot coming&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;listicle&sol;nicki-minaj-yung-miami-twitter-exchange-borrowed-catchphrase&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Yung Miami<&sol;strong><&sol;a> further explained that while they were &&num;8220&semi;really just having fun&&num;8221&semi; with past tracks&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re taking a different approach with their new project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I felt like &lbrack;with&rsqb; other projects&comma; we was really just having fun&period; We wasn&&num;8217&semi;t in our head about it or overthinking it&period; We would just do songs and put &&num;8217&semi;em together&period; Now it&&num;8217&semi;s just like we think about these records and figure out what&&num;8217&semi;ll be great&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>JT was sure to add&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s just a perfection thing right now&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to put out nothing corny&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em><&sol;strong>She also spoke on how the next project will be a more &&num;8220&semi;evaluated&&num;8221&semi; version of the good ol&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8220&semi;p&ast;&ast;&ast;y rap&&num;8221&semi; that City Girls fans love&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I want the music to be good and hit&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s still p&ast;&ast;&ast;y rap like it&&num;8217&semi;ll be fun but much more elevated&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s elevated p&ast;&ast;&ast;y rap&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cjyq3ujPico" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">City Girls Took Some Time To Reflect Before Gettin&&num;8217&semi; Back Into Grind Mode<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>As for the nearly three-year break between albums&comma; JT notes that the duo was &&num;8220&semi;just being free&period;&&num;8221&semi; However&comma; &&num;8220&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s time to get to it&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;really grind and stand on business&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We were just being free&comma; honestly&period; I feel like freedom is more important than money&period; Just feeling free&comma; doing what I want to do&&num;8230&semi; but it&&num;8217&semi;s like now it&&num;8217&semi;s time to get to it and really grind and stand on business&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; Yung Miami said the &&num;8220&semi;Where The Bag At&&num;8221&semi; rappers took time to &&num;8220&semi;really identify&&num;8221&semi; what they wanted to improve on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I think just taking time to identify who we are and what could be better&comma; just as an artist and making music and just when we&&num;8217&semi;re on stage&comma; taking time to really identify things that we need to work on&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The <em>Caresha Please <&sol;em>host proceeded to call the duo &&num;8220&semi;legends&&num;8221&semi; who &&num;8220&semi;don&&num;8217&semi;t give a f&ast;&ast;k what nobody says&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and JT agreed&period; After all&comma; she asks&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;Who did it like the City Girls&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Who did it like the City Girls&quest; Nobody&period; It ain&&num;8217&semi;t been two b&ast;&ast;&ast;hes to come in&comma; have this personality&comma; and give people the attitude&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>JT wrapped by adding&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;We came&comma; and just talked about p&ast;&ast;&ast;y &lbrack;while&rsqb; just being us&period; Ain&&num;8217&semi;t nobody got good p&ast;&ast;&ast;y rap like City Girls&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While it&&num;8217&semi;s unclear exactly the new City Girls project will arrive&comma; the duo says it&&num;8217&semi;ll drop right in time for the summer&comma; so it should be sometime soon&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; Yung Miami and JT shared that the project will feature 17-20 tracks of &&num;8220&semi;elevated p&ast;&ast;&ast;y rap&comma;&&num;8221&semi; so fans will have plenty of bops to bump&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"123972" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;city-girls-elevated-artistry-next-album&sol;" data-secure&equals;"40a47892f0"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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