One Grammy-winning rapper seems to have a special fondness for the Queen City.
Baby Keem, best known for his quadruple-platinum single “Orange Soda” and for collaborating with his cousin Kendrick Lamar on the Grammy-winning “Family Ties,” mentioned Cincinnati on his new album Ca$ino.
On the album’s seventh song, “$ex Appeal” featuring LA rapper Too $hort, Keem raps: “I’m in the mood, we in Miami / I met a freak from Cincinnati.”
It’s anyone’s guess who the “freak” in question could be, but the rapper has already touched down in Cincinnati at least once before. In 2022, he played a show at popular venue Bogart’s, as part of his tour for his platinum-selling album The Melodic Blue. That show was one of the year’s hottest concerts in the Cincinnati area; tickets sold out in less than 10 minutes.
The rapper is returning to Cincinnati later this year, too—the Ca$ino tour will stop at the Andrew J. Brady Music Center on May 23, which you can learn more about by clicking here.