It’s never to late in the year to enjoy some Sugar Honey Iced Tea — especially when served up by Latto. Fresh off the summer release of her third studio album, the Grammy-nominated Georgia rapper’s first-ever North American headline tour pulls up to Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway tonight (November 4) with Mariah the Scientist and Karrahbooo on board as support.
Latto is delivering a taste of the South to the rest of the country on this run, as the “Big Mama” and “Georgia Peach” artist dishes on the record’s tasty title: “When I met [producers] Pooh [Beatz] and [Go] Grizz[ly] and locked in with them, everything just felt Southern… One day, shortly after we cut ‘Put It on Da Floor,’ I just walked in the studio like, ‘Sugar Honey Iced Tea is the name of the album,’” she tells Billboard for a cover story.
Latto adds: “People be trying to be messy and thinking it’s a response to something. I promise you, this is before any of that shit. This is something that just felt Southern to me. Where I’m from, we be like, ‘I’m the sugar honey iced tea!’”
Drink up.
LATTO + MARIAH THE SCIENTIST + KARRAHBOOO :: Monday, November 4 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, 2 Lansdowne St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $50 to $65 :: Event info :: Advance tickets