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Maryland-based rapper and song-writer Flex Kartel is teaming with Detroit rapper Sada Baby to produce a motivational tune meant to push people to move on in their lives.
Kartel’s newest single “Get A Bag” was created specifically to bring these two hip hop heavyweights together.
“‘Get A Bag’ is meant to get people to get up and be motivated,” Kartel said. “It gives you the motivation to want to get up and go get some kind of hustle or ambition or get to your next goal or get to that next point where you can collect your next big fee so you can move on to the next step in your life.”
Kartel said Sada Baby got involved at the suggestion of his company, Haplios and GATC Entertainment.
“My distro called me and said what do you think about Sada Baby, he’s pretty dope?” Kartel said. “They said what do you think about doing a record with him? I said for sure I’d want to do a record with him. I was in the studio in Los Angeles and I was in there with my twin brother, my engineer and I created something to see if we could get a record with him.
“That night I made that song in about an hour and sent it to him. He was like yes, he loved it, he wanted to get on the song and next thing you know we were doing the song and shooting the music video.”
The song features Kartel’s unique blend of hip hop, combined with a bit of Go-Go, a subgenera of music originated by musicians in Washington, D.C., as well as some of the R&B and dance hall that his parents used to play at home.
Kartel said he got his musical start with Go-go before venturing off to hip hop in his late teens.
He got into rap when another rapper suggested he try it.
“Shout out to Boomer Chamberlain, he had a studio set up in his house and he was like man, you need to get on a song and try it,” Kartel said. “I said, no, man, I’m not a rapper, I don’t make music like that. He said come on man, just try it. He asked me for the whole day and by the end of the day I tried it and I was like, hey, I actually don’t sound that bad. The ball kept rolling from there.”
Kartel said his collaboration with Sada Baby in “Get A Bag” was his first experience collaborating with another artist, and he’s looking forward to more.
“It was dope, Sada Baby is very energetic, he has a lot of fun,” Kartel said. “It was definitely dope, it was my first record with an artist from a different city, like that. It was definitely a great experience.”
Kartel described his own music as something that takes on a variety of sounds.
“My sound is like a Picasso, very beautiful work of art and there are going to be different versions of different pieces of art, but you’re always going to get something beautiful and masterful,” he said. “It’ll be like the only one in the world, no one will have that sound or that style.”
Kartel said “Get A Bag” is a single for now, and h’s working on a new EP called “Untitled Emotions.”
Next year he’ll headline his own concert at the Union Stage in Washington, D.C. He also has a new single and music video featuring Sauce Walker and Peso Peso from Houston.
“People need to stay tuned for all of that,” Kartel said. “Expect to be blown away. I don’t even want to give them too much, I just want them to hear it and tell me what they feel, but expect to be blown away.
Make sure to stay connected to Flex Kartel on all platforms for new music, videos and social posts.
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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