Rolling Stone

070 SHAKE

A mystical visionary who’s equally inspired by Pink Floyd and Kanye

- Photograph by KOURY ANGELO

every morning at 11:30, 070 Shake puts Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon on the record player in the New Jersey studio where she works. “Every day, at the same time,” says the singer,

22. Shake is signed to Def Jam and Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music, which gives some producers who show up to collaborat­e the wrong impression; Dark Side of the Moon helps clear that up. “I’m open to stepping into every single world of music that there is,” she says. Shake turned heads with her charismati­c yowl on Kanye’s 2018 song “Ghost Town.” She’s since won raves for her dizzyingly genreless debut album, Modus Vivendi. It’s been a swift rise, but she’s taking it all in stride. “I don’t think I see time the way everybody sees time,” Shake says. “Nothing really surprises me too much. Everything is moments, everything is close together.”

BRENDAN KLINKENBER­G

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