Young Miko is sitting, legs criss-crossed, atop her purple bed, surrounded by bookshelves, a boombox and a big Tamagotchi. A microphone clutched to her chest, she’s visibly emotional, almost ...
Young Miko is taking me for a drive to Piñones, the northeastern Puerto Rico hot spot known for its mesmerizing ocean views and long history as a stronghold of Afro-Caribbean culture. “I knew I had to ...
Young Miko might have touched down in Austin, Texas, but she’s still on Pacific time. The 26-year-old rapper from Puerto Rico has been holed up in Los Angeles preparing for the biggest month of her ...
Editor’s note: Parts of this interview were translated from Spanish by the reporter. Young Miko enters our video call from a light-filled patio in southern California. Birds chirp into her computer’s ...
Young Miko is far from her home island of Puerto Rico, curled up in an oversized hoodie and tucked away in a quiet hotel room in south-central North Carolina. The lights are low and the room hums with ...
Early into her debut album, Att., Young Miko says what so many men in reggaeton have basically said before: "Vente conmigo, your boy ain't s***." But those words hit different coming from the ...
Even South Florida’s chaotic weather couldn’t stop Young Miko from closing out her tour at Hard Rock Live in spectacular fashion on Wednesday night. When New Times arrived at the venue for soundcheck, ...
'I can’t help but feel responsible for speaking up to the world when I rap how I rap and I am who I am,' says Young Miko, Variety Hitmakers Trailblazer of the Year. It’s noon in Puerto Rico, and Young ...
"At the end of the day, I don't feel like I've changed at all," she said. Since her first official music release in 2021, Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko has been busy. She has notched over 20 million ...
Young Miko is far from her home island of Puerto Rico, curled up in an oversized hoodie and tucked away in a quiet hotel room in south-central North Carolina. The lights are low and the room hums with ...
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But those words hit different coming from the 25-year-old Puerto Rican rapper, whose girly, Y2K aesthetic and low, throaty bars have upended norms in Latin pop. On Att. — the abbreviation for the ...