“I remember when I was 18, I’d just graduated
from high school and I had walked in my mom's
room and said to her, ‘I'm gonna go to college
and I might take time off because I want to go
work and make some money. But besides that,
Ma, I feel like I'm a star, like I'm important to the
world. I don't know what it is, but I'm gonna figure
it out.’”
Brooklyn-born-and-raised Lola Brooke knew she
could take the New York music scene by storm,
but she wasn’t expecting to do so on a global scale.
Though she’s been in the game for a while now, the
lyrical powerhouse is only just warming up. Covering
our Autumn/Fall 2023 issue, we spoke to the rapper
a week ahead of Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary where
it felt more women than ever were being celebrated
for their contributions to the genre. From Nicki Minaj
to Lil’ Kim and back to Foxy Brown, these are some of
Hip-Hop’s finest – and now, with a new project looming,
Brooke is assuring that she is amongst that list too.
Lola Brooke wears shirt DSQUARED2
Photography by Chinazam Ojukwu
Fashion by Katherine Mateo
Words by Aswan Rosa Marie
Editorial Director Charlotte Morton
Editor in Chief Toni-Blaze Ibekwe
Senior Editor Ella Bardsley
Editor Erica Rana
Deputy Editor Ella West
Art Director Livia Vourlakidou
Makeup
Khadidra Mclarty
Hair
Essencia Banks
Production Director Ben Crank
Producer Isabella Coleman
Production Assistant Lola Randall
Art Direction Assistant Beth Griffiths
Art Direction Intern Will Glen
Photography Assistant Michaela Izard, Emmanuel Porquin
Fashion Assistant Dasani Mathis
Retouching Rina Veremejchik
Special Thanks to Archivo Studio
