Perfect Timing
From platinum bangers to designer-darling status, Coi Leray is seizing the moment she was born ready for while proving her critics wrong.
Words: Stacy-Ann Ellis
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Spring 2023 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now.
The year is 2021, and a then-24-year-old Coi Leray is pacing the Rolling Loud Miami stage, signature shoulder-length plaits swinging, doing her best to entertain a mannequin-still crowd that simply won’t budge. Despite an energetic set of brazen bars, vocals, animated moves and a posse of hype men, viral footage has memorialized the unresponsive crowd with a bevy of unkind comments piled underneath it.
Fast-forward two years later, and the now-26-year-old rapper’s return to
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