Norfolk, VA rapper Charlie Angel recently scored an impressive 8.0 in a New Music Critique, prompting MC to feel excited about digging deeper. After all, her music displays a rare vulnerability, with strength and sensitivity coming through as she explores her own feelings as well as the world around her. There’s a lot to enjoy.
Angel began writing when she was seven years old, quickly penning a song with lyrics that her parents didn’t approve of. “As the years went on, I focused on poetry leading up to college, and my first official song that I wrote seriously was when I was a sophomore that semester,” she says. “It became serious for me when my love interest passed away, when I was 19, and I wrote a song about how much I missed him. My first studio track wasn’t recorded until 2022, as the lead single to my album Hard 2 Luv.”
The artist describes her sound as versatile and genre-blending. “However, I am most known for my hip-hop music, and I have gotten comparisons to Da Brat, Queen Latifah, or MC Lyte,” she says. “I would say that I am not as legendary, but I do carry the ‘90s type of cadence in my rhymes.”
Angel’s latest release is the single “GLD” (featuring TyisMe). “It’s a fun track where we just go back and forth with bars,” she says. “It is a clear juxtaposition of thoughts between us two, and that’s what makes it so dope. While Ty is talking about his vices, I rap about my spiritual growth. Somehow, it all flows together.”
For this hip-hop artist, the term DIY symbolizes maintaining creative control. “I do so by creating my own cover art, music video directing, and planning my own shows,” she says. “It’s a large responsibility, but it proves to me that I am capable of creating my own universe with my artistic abilities.”
Looking ahead, Angel has plenty planned for 2026. “My plans are to drop merchandise, more artistic collaborations, more BTS of who I am, a documentary, and my sophomore album Protege releases in March,” she says. Look out for that.
