Kari Faux released her Lost En Los Angeles album yesterday (April 8).

The Little Rock, Arkansas artist has 11 tracks on the project, which is the follow-up to her Laugh Now, Die Later mixtape.

Faux spoke with HipHopDX about her journey to the big city and how that inspired Lost En Los Angeles.

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“It was a super culture shock,” she said of moving to the City of Angels. “I was definitely kind of sad. I really felt like I didn’t fit in with anybody outside of the people I worked with or already knew. I don’t have family out here and I’m a big family person. I spend a lot of time with my family so it was kind of hard. It was crazy because I never had aspirations to live in L.A. and actually had a dream where I was living here.”

Childish Gambino put her “No Small Talk” single on his STN MTN / Kauaimixtape, which helped her garner some mainstream recognition. She detailed how meeting the rapper-actor was a natural process, not something that made her star-struck.

“Most people would have been like, ‘I’m on a song with Childish Gambino, I’m about to take off,'” she says. “I was more like is this right for me in this time as an artist. I believe in myself enough to ask those questions about my brand. When he came out and hung out with us, chill and smoke with us, it was tight. I was like, ‘Ah, he’s a real person.’ He’s not some fuckin’ person that doesn’t exists in the real world.”

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Read the full interview here.

Kari Faux’s Lost En Los Angeles album cover art, tracklist and stream are below:

Kari Faux Lost En Los Angeles cover art
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  1. Lost (Intro)
  2. Lost En Los Angeles
  3. Nada
  4. Law of Attraction
  5. Supplier
  6. Don’t
  7. Lie 2 My Face
  8. Fantasy
  9. Nothing 2 Lose
  10. This Right Here
  11. Eden