Bree Runway

There's a pop-focused core to the music of Bree Runway, a provocative East London rapper, singer, and songwriter of Ghanaian descent, pulling in such wide-ranging sounds as experimental trap and noodling guitar rock. She issued her debut mixtape, 2000AND4EVA, in 2020, following with the 2022 EP Woah, What a Blur! A slew of singles and collaborations followed, including a hit Khalid duet, 2023's "Be the One." Born Brenda Wireko Mensah in Hackney in 1992, Bree Runway's moniker was inspired by a cousin's nickname and came to figuratively represent repeated attempts to take off a...