Lava La Rue

Based out of West London, rapper/vocalist Lava La Rue incorporates both mellow, golden-era hip-hop beats and futuristic R&B elements into their stylistically fluid hybrid sound. After releasing multiple tracks and EPs, La Rue issued the trappy mixtape Stitches in 2019, then moved in more of a neo-soul direction with a series of EPs and their 2024 full-length studio debut, Starface. Lava La Rue was born Ava Laurel and grew up in and out of foster care, working on music as a teenager and going so far as to form experimental musical collective NiNE8 with other friends working on...