Elle Teresa is a Japanese rapper currently under West Carter Records. Her music is hip-hop and mostly explicit. Elle has worked a lot with rapper Yuskey Carter.

Elle Teresa was born in Numazu City, Shizuoka prefecture in 1997. She was always confident, and her parents, who were both quite the dancers, often took her to the club. “I hated it when I was little; ‘I’m sleepy! Why should I come to a place like this?’ But when I was a junior high school student I went to the club with my friends. There was nothing else to do in Numazu and it was fun, meeting all these cool people I couldn’t find at school.” That was how she met Yuskey Carter, a prominent local rapper.

In Japan’s rap scene, her unique vibe quickly garnered attention, but in a musical genre that closely mirrors reality, she’s encountered many frustrations and roadblocks. “The Hip hop and rap community is dominated by men, and due to that I’ve been through a lot. It’s usually the standard ‘because you’re a woman’ thing that makes me go like, ‘so what?’ I always talk about it with fellow female rappers like NENE. Not that I will become friends with just any female rappers — NENE’s about the only female rapper I’m cool with. And it’s not like I hate guys or anything — I love guys.[laughs]. But I dislike male-dominant society, so I’m doing my best to push for changes”.

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