Medusa on the Real: Gangsters to Investors, How Her Family Navigated LA from the 1920s to Today

In the latest episode of on the Real, Los Angeles emcee Medusa shares her family’s history, beginning in the 1920s when they arrived in California, and explains how her great grandmother went from gangster to real estate investor. Medusa also tells the story of how her music is an extension of her mother’s own artistic legacy, meeting the Jackson 5 at age 7, and how she went from pop locking to emceeing.

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