NYC's Baby Got Back Talk Release New Thought-Provoking Single + Video

Baby Got Back Talk Release New Single + Video “Model Minority“

New school pop punkers Baby Got Back Talk are debuting their latest single/video “Model Minority” off their upcoming Wiretap Records debut EP, ‘Existential Shred‘, due out September 9.

Vocalist/bassist G’Ra Asim says, “Our new single “Model Minority” is a wry send-up of a classic hater’s lament, namely that historical marginalization is currency nowadays and social outgroups are fashionable. It’s a gripe that tends to reach your ears when you’re in a rock band that foregrounds queer punx and punx of color. We took that idea and ran with it: why not have a rallying cry (akin to Keri Hilson’s “Pretty Girl Rock”) repping all us twinkling tokens? For the video, we teamed up with the brilliant Carla Troconis to shoot an homage to a certain hallowed 2000s emo staple–with a contemporary twist. We hope it puts your Juneeteenth and Pride Month over the top!”

Baby Got Back Talk is a D-I-why?-because-we-gotta punk party from New York City. The band teamed with producer John Naclerio (Just Surrender, The Audition) at Nada Recording Studios for their latest EP, ‘Existential Shred’ due out later this Summer 2022 on Wiretap Records.

Formed in 2017, Baby Got Back Talk initially consisted of vocalist/bassist G’Ra Asim, synth op/vocalist Rhiana Hernandez, and lead guitarist/vocalist Jake Lazaroff. After years of sharing bills with local compatriots like Choked Up, Universe Ignore Her and Gibbons– acts that were all anchored by the propulsive stick work of drummer Wes Ruiz– Baby Got Back Talk welcomed Ruiz into the fold.

“We’re what punk looks like in the 2020s: driven by a DIY ethic, conversant with social issues–especially as they pertain to gender and race, enabled by inter-web, bankrolled by day jobs, powered by a rad likeminded community, resonant with the most venerable iterations of rock ‘n’ roll but firmly committed to injecting some new flavor into the mold.”