Written by The Mixtape Queens There’s a particular kind of courage required to start over when you weren’t finished the first time. For Charlotte-born artist Jerynee, 2025 forced exactly that. She was preparing to release an album when being scammed and hacked cost her the music she had been building toward. Suddenly, an artist who had spent most of her life surrounded by creativity had to find her footing again—not only rebuilding what was lost, but learning to trust her own

Written by The Mixtape Queens A Voice That Showed Up Before the Music Did Born and raised in Belleville, New Jersey, Kaila Freid’s relationship with music began before she was old enough to understand what having a “gift” even meant. She had been singing since she was three years old, but one of the first moments her parents and grandfather truly recognized something different in her happened almost by accident: a cassette stopped working, and Kaila simply started singing ins