AUSTIN, Texas — Ladi Earth uses her art to represent the human experience in more ways than one.

As a rapper, she sings about self-discovery over light, melodic beats or lies down a raunchy rhyme over trap beats and heavy bass.

“I just like to embody the human,” she said. “‘Ladi Earth,’ you know? Everything.”

She brings the same energy to her work as a dance instructor, teaching twerking to students in Austin. She said she’s moving in the direction of “twerk healing,” encouraging people, especially women, to move their hips through dance as a way to heal.

“Clearing out that energy and, like, moving our hips really helps with creativity and trauma release,” she said. “Making music that, if you’re in the mood to do that, just play me, and it’s like releasing and calming, but also makes you want to move your hips.”

Ladi Earth’s makes it her mission to be a vessel for people to find that release through her music or her work as a dance instructor. It’s a goal that’s become more clear to her since having her first child, Luminous.

“I feel like i’m a grown woman for real now,” she said. “ Thinking about legacies and stuff, impact and how can I help the community... in my own way though without being preachy.”

Being a creator with a newborn baby was tough for Ladi Earth in the beginning. Relearning aspects of life, from multitasking to even who she was an artist with a child, caused her to dip into a depression that music helped bring her through. Now, she’s a vessel for other people to experience that same type of healing through her music she now easily creates with Luminous on her lap for nearly every session in her home studio.

Her music already has her reaching new heights. Her single “Water” was featured on the Netflix series Russian Doll, and her catalogue is currently available on streaming services, Spotify and Apple Music. She’s always striving for the next big opportunity, but as long as her music is helping people, she believes she’s doing her job.

“When songs go viral, it’s because so many mass people agree with it and feel that,” she said. “Somebody went through what we went through, too. Somebody went through what I went through, what you went through, whoever. So we’re not alone and I want people to know that.”