Backxwash

The Zambia-born rapper from Montreal Ashanti Mutinta burst onto the scene in 2020, clinching the Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s top music award, for her album God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It. She’s since come out with a whole trilogy of suffering: albums drenched in despair, fury, horrorcore, and trap metal. Backxwash’s live shows confront the audience with her own (and our collective) traumas. Whether it’s in the lyrics or the music, get ready for some heavy hitting.