I’m from Little Rock, Arkansas, and growing up; I definitely listened to a lot of music. When I was younger, I listened to a lot of pop music, but my older brother would listen to rap, and then I eventually started to record my own music. At 19-years-old, I dropped out of college, moved back home, took music seriously, and the rest is history.

What inspired the stage name “Kari Faux”?

Kari is my real name, but I got Faux from my best friend Malik Flint aka “Black Party.” When I was in school the girl friends I had then would sometimes call me fake for not wanting to do the things they wanted to do, and it came to the point where I wasn’t going to things that weren’t in my interest, and that’s how “Faux” came about.

You’re working on your debut album Lost En Los Angeles. What should we expect from it?

For one, it’s not a concept album; and it doesn’t tell a story. It’s just songs that I wrote when I was feeling crazy and living in L.A. I really felt like I didn’t fit in with anybody outside of the people I worked with or already knew. So I took the opportunity to make the type of music that I like and made me feel good. People can definitely expect a lot of singing (even though I’m not a singer) giggles and a lot vulnerability through the album.

Can you clue us in on any features or producers that made the album?

Most of the production for Lost En Los Angeles was done by Black Party, and we brought in musicians that we knew to be apart of the project, but it’s all Black Party and myself on the album.