Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.

Today on the show, Sid, formerly known as Sid the Kid, she is a songwriter, a producer,

and she's a lead singer of the band, The Internet.

Sid is having a moment right now.

She was featured in Drake's Nice For What video, her songs have appeared on HBO's and

secure, and her group The Internet, they're out with a new album called Hivemind.

She'd first came to prominence as a part of Odd Future.

It's his Southern California hip-hop collective that has made a few stars.

Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt, and the leader of Odd Future, Tyler the Cree.

In Odd Future's heyday, the group, especially Tyler, they got a lot of criticism for lyrics

that some people thought were sexist and homophobic.

And Sid was in the middle of all of this.

Those weren't her lyrics, but she was the only female member of the group.

And there was also a media speculation about her own sexuality.

Sid talked to me about how she's navigated all of that, then, and now.

And we also talked about her newest album with The Internet Hivemind, which I gotta say

is this perfect chilled out R&B for a late summer drive in Southern California.

Or anywhere you might be for that matter.

As a warning, this chat includes some vulgar words a bit later.

We do not bleep them.

All right, with that, here's my chat with Sid.

She joined me in our Culver City Studios.

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