Rapper Haviah Mighty has come a long way in a short time. In 2019, the immaculate flow and fierce lyricism of her album 13th Floor won her the Polaris Music Prize, making her both the first hip-hop artist and the first Black woman to achieve that honour. Soon after, recognition spread internationally, as Mighty earned praise from the likes of Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, while BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders recognized her as “one of the most exciting new rappers out there.”

In a video interview with SOCAN conducted shortly after the Fall 2021 release of her new mixtape Stock Exchange, Mighty discusses her music, her notoriety, and her new Black-Owned Business Giveaway in January of 2022, of $10,000 total (in ten $1,000 grants to ten separate companies) to help them further expand and thrive. (Submissions are closed, and finalists are pitching their business ideas to Mighty on Instagram Live.)

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