May 18, 2022
Kali’s Coming and She’s Here to Stay
[ad_1] Show & Prove: KaliWords: Grant RindnerEditor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.Booming, minimalist, with a brilliantly simple call-and-response hook, Kali’s 2021 song, “MMM MMM,” has inspired thousands of TikToks, but there’s one that the Atlanta-bred rapper tends to think of first. “It’s this video of this girl. She’s driving in a car, she looked crazy, but she was screaming ‘MMM MMM’ with her whole soul,” Kali recalls. “She was changing some of the words a little bit, but she was just like, ‘He want my number, had to hit him with the ‘Mmm Mmm!’ Mad as hell, like her man just pissed her off....