Freese Cola has a goal for 2021: to outwork every artist in South Florida. And he's doing everything in his power to make it happen. Yet, with all the success he's had with his music thus far, his fans would never think that he once attempted to give it all up.
On a bright, sunny day in North Miami,
New Times sat with the Haitian rapper in his favorite studio, Bay 8. Rocking a blue-and-red Adidas tracksuit, the 26-year-old artist (born Freska Desir) rehashed his first time recording at the studio with Bobby Fishscale. The rapper’s face lights up through clouds of marijuana smoke as he describes how he came to love working with sound engineers.