Bree Runway: “I’ve Lost Money, Opportunities And Followers. But I Found Me”

And just like that, Bree Runway is back. After disappearing from the music industry for a year, here she is, smiling over Zoom in a casual T-shirt, black hair, minimal – if any – make-up. We last spoke for in the blue-haired era of 2020, a time she describes as a golden period.

Back then, she was on a streak of creating club classics, receiving requests to collaborate from Missy Elliot – resulting in super-hit “ATM” – and collecting co-signs from , Kim Kardashian, Cardi B and . “I was making all the noise. It was so, so, so hot,” she remembers.

“But what was hot about that year, Bree? You were in the driver’s seat.” Today, simultaneously oozing star power but stripped back and natural, she’s the same Bree, but different. And, on the brink of her return, she feels ready to tell the full story of how she got pulled off track, and her rocky road to self-rediscovery.

Last year, she left her label EMI Records, after signing in 2018. Since then, she reflects, “I’ve lost money. I’ve lost opportunities.

I’ve lost followers. But I found me. That is more valuable than anything else in life.

” Meanwhile, a rabid fanbase has been patiently awaiting her comeback. The comments under the announcement of her first single as an independent artist, “Just Like That”, are a who’s who of the hottest Black alternative artists – , , , Lsdxoxo, Aaliyah’s Interlude – with whom she forms a community. ’s TikTok still reads, “this is a bree runway stan ac.