{"id":333,"date":"2026-11-09T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=333"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:14:05","slug":"molly-santana-signs-to-epic-and-fires-off-a-girl-is-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Molly Santana Signs to Epic and Fires Off \u201cA Girl Is A Gun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molly Santana has signed to Epic Records in partnership with Black Punk Music, and she has announced the deal the way she means to go on \u2014 with a new single and self-directed video, \u201cA Girl Is A Gun.\u201d Produced by Showjoe and Tom Lev, the track is the first taste of her new chapter, and it lands with the force its title promises: sharp, confrontational, and entirely on her own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA Girl Is A Gun\u201d is the opening statement for \u201c.BLACK PUNK,\u201d her first project via Epic, due November 27, 2026. The single frames the project not as a departure but as a declaration \u2014 Santana staking out a sound and an identity that refuses to be filed neatly under one genre, with Black Punk Music at the centre of the rollout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCzWP58dqTc\" title=\"Molly Santana \u2014 A Girl Is A Gun (Official Music Video)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Molly Santana \u2014 \u201cA Girl Is A Gun\u201d (Official Music Video)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video, which Santana directed herself, keeps the focus where the song puts it: on her. It is a fitting choice for an artist who has always presented herself as the author of her own image \u2014 the video is not a glossy label introduction so much as a statement of control, with Santana directing the look as well as the sound of her arrival at Epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A native of Fontana, California, Santana has built her name by pulling hip hop into conversation with punk, grunge and alternative music, rather than treating those worlds as separate. \u201cI have always been alternative and I have always been Black. That is the whole point of Black Punk,\u201d she told Billboard. It is a line that explains the project\u2019s title as well as its sound \u2014 a name that claims the space where those influences meet, instead of asking permission to stand in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epic signing caps a breakout year. Earlier in 2026, Santana appeared on Drake\u2019s ICEMAN album, on \u201cRan To Atlanta,\u201d a track that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Complex has noted that she \u201cescapes genre trappings of a typical hip-hop artist,\u201d and \u201cA Girl Is A Gun\u201d backs that up \u2014 it is a rap record with a punk edge and an alternative frame, delivered with the confidence of an artist who has already been heard at the top of the charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With \u201c.BLACK PUNK\u201d due November 27, \u201cA Girl Is A Gun\u201d does the job an opening single should: it tells you exactly who is arriving, and what she is bringing with her. The single and its self-directed video are out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Santana has signed to Epic Records in partnership with Black Punk Music, announcing the deal with her new single and self-directed video, \u201cA Girl Is A Gun.\u201d The Fontana artist\u2019s first Epic project, \u201c.BLACK PUNK,\u201d is due November 27, 2026 \u2014 and the single makes clear she intends to arrive loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","video_url":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/browser-download-20261110T020715.116950554Z-9-846394245_18636416164033926_3439901018925045204_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}