Donning all-black gothic attire and ready to perform, Soundcloud rapper Serrahnade Burdette came onto the LBCC campus for her performance on Kitchen Sink.
With an easy going attitude, she cracked jokes and brought an overall positive energy to both her performance and interview, making for a lively episode of Kitchen Sink.
Burdette performed three of her songs: “Sarah-ninfo-nade,” “Edger Allen Poe,” and “Jersy.” She broke down each track, telling how each one came to be.
The first song,“Sarah-ninfo-nade,” is one of her more well known songs given its catchy chorus.
Burdette explained she came up with the track by drawing from her experiences on a volleyball team.
“When I was in volleyball my coach used to call me Sarah-Lime-O-Nade and I thought that was really funny and I took that and one day I was like ‘I’m such a freak, nympho is my middle name –Sarah-ninfo-nade,” Burdette said.
According to Burdette her songwriting process is very comparable to an improv show.
“I would label it almost as if you’re in an improv show, you get a suggestion, you take that word and spin off of it. And whatever I think of next after I get my word or my phrase, and whenever I build off of that, once I can’t think of anything else. That’s it. That’s right I have. That’s what I put into it,” Burdette said.
The second song she performed, “Edger Allen Poe,” was inspired by the 19th century poet of the same name.
Burdette used the line “once upon a midnight dreary” from Poe’s poem “The Raven” as inspiration and said she really enjoyed reading his poems back in 10th grade.
“It really just spun off of a line I had where it was like I’m talking about ‘once a midnight dreary,’ Edgar Allan Poe. Me and my crows come in because sort of like how Black people can be depicted as crows in older media,” Burdette said.
Burdette also mentioned how Edgar Allan Poe would talk badly about the crows in one of his poems, incorporating that in her work.
Lastly, she performed “Jersy,” a fast paced song meant to get people dancing.
“It’s that typical hype girl song that you would hear, like ‘I’m better than your b—-. I’m that b—- and I f—- your man.’ and I just put a little bit of that Serrahnade sprinkle on there,” said Burdette on “Jersy.”
Burdette’s lyrical style, according to her, is difficult to categorize into a specific genre.
“I am an experience, and you never know what I’m gonna get when I rap,” Burdette said.
She went on to compare herself to other artists such as CupcakKe and DBangz, some influences that she has.
“My style is probably somewhere between CupcakKe, DBangz, and everything you left on the floor,” Burdette said.
Most of Burdette’s lyrics come from simply improvising over tracks, coming up with phrases that are both catchy and comedic.
Burdette’s musical journey started in highschool when she began collaborating with her producer friend, Dennen Casey, who works with her on all her tracks.
He gets shout outs on some tracks and even sings on some as well.
“In my songs the producer tag sometimes is like ‘white man on the beat’ because he is white,” Burdette said.
“It actually kinda just started as a joke because my friend was a producer, met him at school, and one day I was like ‘wouldn’t it be so funny if we started rapping?’ and then we started rapping.”
She described working with Casey as really fun and relaxing without stress.
In the future, Burdette wants to focus on the type of sound that she provides for people. She wants to take her music to the next level.
“I’ve been trying a lot of different sounds and things like that and see what’s receptive from people and I think that the next step is really finding that sound and taking that sound and trying to go forward and go up with that,” said Burdette.
“Sarah-ninfo-nade,” “Edger Allen Poe,” and “Jersy” can all be found on Soundcloud, along with more tracks of hers.
Burdette wrapped up her interview with some words of advice for her viewers.
“I would definitely like to say, watch out for me because not only did I f— your man, but I f—– your b—-, and now I’m f—— them both and they’re about to switch,” finished Burdette.