Coco Peila is a multi-hyphenate Hip Hop artist, an MC, singer, songwriter, and The Music Midwife™ (...like a songwriting coach, but better.)

 

From her collaborations with heavy hitters to her internationally acclaimed impact at the intersection of "alternative Hip Hop and artistic activism" (BUST Magazine), she is known for her unparalleled ability to make music that moves the culture forward whether creating music as a solo artist or helping other artists birth their most precious and purpose-driven songs with care, precision, and deep artistic intuition.

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​​​​Industry Recognition & Media Features

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Coco Peila’s groundbreaking work and collaborations have earned her acclaim from prestigious institutions and media outlets worldwide. Her artistry has been highlighted by:

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• The Kennedy Center

• Stanford University

• Yale University

• The New Yorker

• International Museum of Women

• Museum of the African Diaspora

• Elton John’s Rocket Hour

• The Def Professor, Co-founder of Harvard University’s Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute

• And Hip Hop historian Davey D has recognized her as an “Artist to Watch” underscoring her cultural impact and undeniable talent.

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​​​​​​​​​Legendary Stages & Performances

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Coco has graced stages and shared mics with Hip Hop royalty and leaders of our time, including:

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• Performances at Iconic Venues: The Hollywood Bowl, The San Francisco Opera House, Teatro Nacional de Guatemala, Stern Grove, and Experience Music Project.

 

• Shared Stages With: Ledisi, Talib Kweli, Zion-I, Slum Village, The Pharcyde, Dead Prez, J Rocc, and even President Barack Obama.

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Behind-the-Scenes Collaborations with Industry Giants

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A force in the studio, her collaborations with Grammy-winning and legendary artists, engineers, and producers include:

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• Scott Jacoby – Grammy-winning engineer, songwriter, and producer.

• G Koop – Grammy-nominated instrumentalist and producer.

• Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo – Grammy-winning producer and founder of Ruffhouse Records, known for discovering, recording, signing, and producing legends like The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Cypress Hill, Billy Joel, and Kris Kross. Joe recorded several songs on her album trilogy, Confessions of A Black Feminist Rapper, including “Pretty Girls”  “Above That - Black Joy,” and “Perfect Love.”

• Taj Mahal –  international treasure, 2025 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 

• Amongst many others

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More Than Music, This is Movement

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Coco Peila is a master cultural strategist wielding Hip Hop as a weapon for joy, resistance, and power. She has taught Hip Hop & Songwriting at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University and was chosen by Movement Generation, New Economy Coalition, and Climate Justice Alliance to write and produce a Hip Hop & Climate Justice EP for Creative Wildfire, a national climate organizing project. She was selected by the Women's Earth Alliance as part of their U.S. Women Environmental Leaders cohort for her visionary work as the Director of Hip Hop & Climate Justice at Youth Vs. Apocalypse and continues to bring an intersectional Black feminist liberation lens to all her musical collaborations and projects.

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​​​​​​The Latest Release 

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Coco Peila’s work confronts the histories, realities, and dreams of Black women and girls, using visual and musical storytelling through Hip Hop as a means of resistance and reclamation. Peila’s practice transforms pain into purpose and silence into voice.

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Her latest visual piece embodies this ethos: a photograph of Peila as a girl child in a broken, scratched frame reflects vulnerability, resilience, and the intergenerational weight of oppression, while the abundant white space highlights absence, erasure, and the urgent need for protection.

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In this work, Peila presents God as a Black girl—an emblem of resistance, strength, and radical hope. She emphasizes that sexism and anti-Black racism experienced by Black women and girls, such as sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, physical abuse, domestic violence, adultification, and poverty, are often misinterpreted as personal failings—moral, economic, educational, or otherwise—rather than recognized as systemic.

 

Her work asserts that Black women and girls experience oppression at the intersection of sexism, anti-Black racism, and other social identities, and that centering their liberation disrupts entrenched hierarchies of power.

 

By placing Black women and girls at the center, Peila affirms that their protection and freedom are foundational to dismantling all systems of oppression. Through bold imagery, conceptual framing, and cultural specificity, her work challenges viewers to confront injustice while celebrating the brilliance, courage, and divinity of Black girls, positioning them as both the architects and embodiment of collective liberation.

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Coco's latest release, a limited edition cassette tape called the TRIGGER WARNING mixtape, features this piece of visual art.

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The Tape comes with:

 

• 8 tracks from her forthcoming LP studio album

• A Walkman

• & and handwritten note from here to you

 

 

There are 31 copies left.

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Collect yours here

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Forthcoming

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​​​Her next studio album, Trigger Warning: Confessions of a Black Feminist Rapper pt. 2, drops in December 2026.

 

Sign up for her mailing list to learn more about it and be the first to hear how to get it.

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The first single off the album 'Perfect Love' is out now. You can sign up for her newsletter here

 

You'll receive a free private listening link to the song. A little gift from Coco so you can get a taste of the sonic beauty and richness of the album's storyline.​​

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